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About 2 years ago

Answered a question: What were your main pain points during the HCI solution buying process?

The biggest pain point for me was a general lack of suggested configurations for certain workloads. For example, if I am doing HCI for Hyper-V or VMware hosts, I would hope that the vendor(s) would have a ballpark configuration that I can build from. Let me drag some…

Over 3 years ago

Answered a question: Can Continuous Data Protection (CDP) replace traditional backup?

CDP can replace traditional backup IF you can set retention times that are as good as or better than traditional backup. Those weekly/monthly/custom backups should also be immutable; otherwise, you can't protect yourself from ransomware or achieve data retention for…

Over 4 years ago

Answered a question: What is the difference between converged and hyper-converged infrastructure?

A Converged Infrastructure has more hardware. Compute is on one set of hardware. Storage is on another set of direct-attached (or other) hardware. Networking is separated, too In a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Compute and Storage are on the same hardware, and…

Over 4 years ago

Contributed a review of StarWind Virtual SAN: A simple to use, cost-effective replacement for our physical SAN that has reliable storage replication

Over 4 years ago

Answered a question: When evaluating Software Defined Storage, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

After evaluating all of the requirements, the first and main aspect should be reliability and data integrity.