back to article Who wants to read 34 pages about getting VMware Private Cloud to run on NetApp HCI?

NetApp has produced a verified architecture for VMware on its Element hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), promising deployment in under 30 minutes if its rules are obeyed. VMware Private Cloud (VPC) is basically VMware installed on-premises. NetApp's Element HCI is, as we understand it, a converged system, with separate …

  1. phuzz Silver badge

    A thirty four page document, of which probably only about ten pages are actually useful, and they still won't contain the really useful information, like the passwords for your VM hosts which were set up the previous IT person who's left and nobody has a contact number for. Or the location of your VMWare licenses, which even when you do find them will inevitably prove to be insufficient to fully license you for whatever it is you want to do. Or the management details for the switch you were going to use but it turns out it's got some really weird configuration going on which might be important but no-one is really sure.

  2. Oneman2Many

    Does anybody care if it takes 38 minutes to deploy ? It's going to takes weeks / months to design, get funding, order. Add on delivery, unboxing and racking the deployment time is inconsequential.

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