Atlantis kicks its flashy upstart brethren right in the price tag

Hi,

In the Atlantis HyperScale vs VMware EVO:RAIL comparison table, it would be great to add a row for the software included in the offer. VMware EVO:RAIL price includes the Hardware, all the software (vSphere Enterprise Plus, Virtual SAN, vRealize Log Insight, vCenter Server and the EVO:RAIL engine) as well as Production support for both the HW and the SW.

I havn't seen this much marketing failure

Since HP's moonshot BS. Good luck to anyone foolish enough to pay for this half baked crap.

you've got to be nuts

To trust 256GB+ to a Supermicro system. Just flat out nuts. I won't deploy anything with anything remotely that much memory on it without something like HP Advanced ECC. That and can Supermicro even identify which DIMM has gone bad if one does go bad these days? My last bout with them was more than a few years ago, for a reason, but at the time the strategy was keep running tests and swapping DIMMs until you find the one that is bad. No easy little light that says oh hey DIMM 9 is bad.

Not to mention more often than not the way you'd find out memory was bad was by a system failure either lock up or crash. I'm sure it happens on occasion on HP gear too but for me I have never seen that behavior in the past 12 years of (on and off) usage of HP w/Advanced ECC (I won't touch HP DL100 series systems for similar reasons of not touching Supermicro for anything business related at least). Going back to DL3xx G2 anyway.

My last round with Dell gear was the R610 series a few years ago, their "version" of Advanced ECC at the time anyway disabled a third to half of the DIMM sockets on the system! Maybe it is fixed now.

"The CX-12 has four 400GB SSDs, making 1.6TB raw capacity with it having a 12TB nominal" implies a 7-8X data reduction.

The $/GB comparison is really apple-to-dried-apple. Deceptive marketing and wrong GTM strategy using price as the key differentiator. Must be really desperate.