Posts by CloudWash

There are 2 important aspects of SDS - "Software" and "Storage", which distinguishes it from a FileSystem.

The software needs to replace the storage-management functionality of the hardware. Not all Filesystems replace storage-management - esp. the block level functionalities.

So, the SDS test is - Deploy the software on a commodity x86 hardware ( aka -"any hardware") and if one gets all the functionality of an enterprise storage hardware , then the storage software can be called a SDS solution.

Obviously, there is a grey level - storage functionality might range from block, file, object ..resiliency,optimization...etc.

However, a better SDS solution is one - which can add more storage functionality - on the same commodity hardware.

Nutanix is trying to say - Hyperconvergence is just a packaging - "Hardware ISO". They are now ready with a "Software ISO" too !

There secret sauce is Hyper-Scale - which puts them in front of Ceph. The question really is - how much of support will the software require -when used on commodity hardware and hypervisor.

From DevOps to NoOps

Welcome to the world of NoOps

What more than Native OpenStack?

OpenStack offers all of these ..what more does Platform9 offer above OpenStack? A glorified UI?

Do we still require vCenter?