Recent content by dav23

My organization is beginning the process of migrating our on premise data center to a colocation facility. For compute we will be migrating to UCS blades and for storage, most likely Pure. I also think we should be looking at a separate small cluster to host management servers and services...

Thanks again for the feedback!

Servers, we have a fairly diverse environment, mostly home grown file processing and data hygiene apps. The trend here lately is big data tools, lots of Cloudera, Hadoop, Spark & Cassandra, Vertica, and whatever is going to come out next. We would definitely roll on 6.0. Thanks for your...

Thanks for your reply. We have been looking at Veeam if we go with VSAN. We're currently using NetBackup. The only reason Simplivity is in the conversation is because of the be-dupe, backup and replication features it has. Very elegant.

Where I work, our VSphere environment is running on HP Blades with SAN storage. This has worked well but performance has never been great. We are just about at our maximum SAN capacity and we are looking to shift directions. After months of looking at the various solutions, we have whittled...