My company has been providing SaaS to clients for some time now with us receiving HaaS & on-demand storage from our data centre and then slapping on vSphere and the required software for the client etc. etc.
Now, we're looking at doing a JV deal with another partner that's been doing a similar sort of thing, but we want to build vCloud infrastructure and wholesale IaaS to other resellers (and to ourselves--each of our other companies).
Before we get into bringing in partners that are more experienced in this sort of hands-own actually build-your-own cloud CapEx type thing, I wanted to reach out to HardForum and get your ideas on what you actually need to do to build one.
I have a basically unlimited budget. So, for the hardware, up-front software, SPLA software & support contracts, I have up to $800K/year to play with.
I'm thinking we'd use TwinNode Blades in Blade Enclosures for Compute and HA Nexenta ZFS with the requisite number of drive shelves for Storage.
What do I need VMware-wise and any other software or hardware aside from the servers (obviously there'd be networking, but what)?
Any thoughts on an overall design plan?
We're just looking at working out what we need (from a high-level perspective) and then we can scale the nodes and drives to the capacity we need and work out some rough costs and a basic plan.
Thanks!
Now, we're looking at doing a JV deal with another partner that's been doing a similar sort of thing, but we want to build vCloud infrastructure and wholesale IaaS to other resellers (and to ourselves--each of our other companies).
Before we get into bringing in partners that are more experienced in this sort of hands-own actually build-your-own cloud CapEx type thing, I wanted to reach out to HardForum and get your ideas on what you actually need to do to build one.
I have a basically unlimited budget. So, for the hardware, up-front software, SPLA software & support contracts, I have up to $800K/year to play with.
I'm thinking we'd use TwinNode Blades in Blade Enclosures for Compute and HA Nexenta ZFS with the requisite number of drive shelves for Storage.
What do I need VMware-wise and any other software or hardware aside from the servers (obviously there'd be networking, but what)?
Any thoughts on an overall design plan?
We're just looking at working out what we need (from a high-level perspective) and then we can scale the nodes and drives to the capacity we need and work out some rough costs and a basic plan.
Thanks!