Dell VxRail
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Has anyone seen this in production, and know where the starting price is?
Investigating some other options, @scale no I haven't forgotten about you. Still doing some research and figuring out what we really need.
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That's actually EMC. So it'll be insanely expensive.
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@DustinB3403 The price starts at 60K or more
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2016/02/vxrail-an-incredible-product-at-an-incredible-time.html -
We considered VxRail when moving away from traditional SAN to vSAN but ended up going with 4 R730 servers instead. The price tag was just too high. They tout the white glove setup and support, so it is one throat to choke. That is attractive, but you will pay a premium for it.
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There's an entire Ready Node selector here on VMware' site - http://vsanreadynode.vmware.com/RN/RN. One thing we learned is that you can go single-socket with the hosts to save on vSphere and vSAN licenses. Just beef up memory because there will be some overhead for vSAN traffic that folks seem to overlook. I know we did.
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@dbeato said in Dell VxRail:
@DustinB3403 The price starts at 60K or more
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2016/02/vxrail-an-incredible-product-at-an-incredible-time.htmlYeah, not meant for the SMB market.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dell VxRail:
@dbeato said in Dell VxRail:
@DustinB3403 The price starts at 60K or more
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2016/02/vxrail-an-incredible-product-at-an-incredible-time.htmlYeah, not meant for the SMB market.
Ya our Isilons were not cheap.
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@NetworkNerd said in Dell VxRail:
There's an entire Ready Node selector here on VMware' site - http://vsanreadynode.vmware.com/RN/RN. One thing we learned is that you can go single-socket with the hosts to save on vSphere and vSAN licenses. Just beef up memory because there will be some overhead for vSAN traffic that folks seem to overlook. I know we did.
Most vendors are pushing single socket these days, except for MS. That's why Scale starts on single socket, for example.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dell VxRail:
@NetworkNerd said in Dell VxRail:
There's an entire Ready Node selector here on VMware' site - http://vsanreadynode.vmware.com/RN/RN. One thing we learned is that you can go single-socket with the hosts to save on vSphere and vSAN licenses. Just beef up memory because there will be some overhead for vSAN traffic that folks seem to overlook. I know we did.
Most vendors are pushing single socket these days, except for MS. That's why Scale starts on single socket, for example.
That actually makes sense. With 22core/44thread processors available, the need for more than a single processor is far less than it used to be.
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@travisdh1 said in Dell VxRail:
@scottalanmiller said in Dell VxRail:
@NetworkNerd said in Dell VxRail:
There's an entire Ready Node selector here on VMware' site - http://vsanreadynode.vmware.com/RN/RN. One thing we learned is that you can go single-socket with the hosts to save on vSphere and vSAN licenses. Just beef up memory because there will be some overhead for vSAN traffic that folks seem to overlook. I know we did.
Most vendors are pushing single socket these days, except for MS. That's why Scale starts on single socket, for example.
That actually makes sense. With got 22core/44thread processors available, the need for more than a single processor is far less than it used to be.
Yes, it's a very common SMB mistake to buy two procs when almost never is that warranted in the SMB market. Single proc of the same core count and speed is faster than two procs and cheaper.
