@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Scott, you mentioned that this is all at the kernel level - could you roll your own version of this?
Sure, you'd have to write your own storage layer, though. So it's not trivial in any way.
OH.. that's where I was confused I guess... I thought the storage layer was part of KVM (that's the hypervisor they use, right?)
Not part of KVM itself. The Scale HC3 is unique, there is no software version available on the market.
So they wrote the storage layer? Cool - good to know/understand that.
Yes, Scale is primarily a storage vendor. Before they made their Hyperconverged product, they made scale out storage only. That was before KVM was mature enough to make the HC3 product. They no longer sell the storage layer, it is now developed purely and designed solely around the needs of the HC3 product so is completely unique to that. It's the storage layer and the storage integration (and support) that are their selling points. That's what makes them special and unique. KVM and the hardware on its own you could do yourself and you could easily make due with a different interface.