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Over 5 years ago
There are a lot of technical differences between both solutions but there are a few notes that are key to understanding the differences 1. SimpliVity is not tied to a single hypervisor; rather it can work with KVM, Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors. 2. VMware vSAN is…
Over 5 years ago
As others have noted, it depends a lot on your workloads and requirements. VMware HCI (VSAN) is very good as a software-defined-storage platform and competes toe-to-toe with Nutanix (which others are talking about). While Nutanix' hypervisor is free, the licensing for the…

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Expertise in a wide range of technologies, and integration of disparate systems such as UNIX, Windows, iSeries and others. Experience also with LAN and WAN technologies as well as storage area networks (SAN).

Specialties: Enterprise storage (SAN's and NAS), VMWare, Citrix, Windows, Linux, UNIX, Macintosh, Networking, Cisco, Systems Engineering, Design, Implementation, Planning, Systems Architecture, Storage Architecture and Administration.