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The subjecct is Huge and it could be a hard walk to discuss about what is and what is not USX / NOS. In my opinion, USX is a cool solution. It come from VDI land where storage was and is a a problem. At the beggining, it was designed to accelerate storage, manly by using host RAM / SSD to accelerate So it's pure software too. Now it comes in a box (since 2014 as far as I know) as an hypervisor. Nutanix come from Webscale and was designed at the very begining as a webscale platefrom for those who are not from the big five. It was designed as a simplifying box from Day 0 with top developpers from the big five inside. NDFS is really a great feature IMO and with Acropolis & the invisible infrastructure, it's not stopping improving. I never go through benchmarking Atlantis, and digging on its features / code / design, so I can't really speak about and especially against Nutanix with Atlantis in mind. It is well working on acceleration, is it webscale ? is it easy to use / migrate /
Thanks Mr Brown ! I like the concept. As far as I know, this is not recommended by Nutanix to do such pooling so I guess there is a downside... Can You tell me more on this in term of performence tax ? I understand that Metadata will be spread across cluster, meaning that I'll have a good RF on this with the downside that if a component has a failure on one of the node, all will be impacted no matter what. As it will not be so complicated fo Zookeeper, i guess it will not generate a tax on this complexity. How curator / stargate react ? Do you have some charter that I can use to help my management decide ? thanks a lot for this, Virttom
H iguys, I don't know if you finally had your answer. I recommand using Nutanix documentation materials before doing any kind of maintenance on OS part of your nutablock ! You have some command to gracefully upgrade your cluster. You have the one click upgrade too ! CVM / hypervisor / acropolis base are tightly coupled so upgrading any part should be done respecting the block and procedures validated by well nutanix kids on the block ;) seriously IMO, don't do if you're not sure : on vsphere administration guide for acropolis 4.5 [list] [*]p24 = Patching ESXi hosts in a cluster. [*]p29 = vSphere Upgrade.[/list]I bet you have the same for Hyper-V enjoy ! thomas
Hi , Many thanks for your sharing ! i'll give you feedback from the trench when it will be up and running ;) sheers, Thomas
Thanks for this Sharing !:) I'll give you feed back on this. To explain this choice of design, you need to understand some contraints that I have for building this blackbox : [list] [*]Implementation will be spread across multiple entities, including massive (1000+ VM + on demand IAAS to little (no more than 50 VMs) deployment. [*]As a matter of simplification (CAPEX volume and OPEX installation team), choice was made on only one DELL model, [*]Since we need 3D support and FC child card for some entities, RC730 16G will be the only option (for nutanix). [*]Nutanix is balanced with VSAN on my client choice. [*]model that will be tested : 2xE5_2680v3 CPU / 24 x 16 Go of RAM / 4 x 400Go SSD drive / 12x 1,2 To SAS 10k HDD / 2xK2 card when 3D is needed...[/list]=> this is a good fat box so I'm trying to convice my client chosing the coolest product and this kind of short package for little client. So my strategy will be : __________ [b]little BOX :[/b] 6/8 nodes with 3/4 storage
Yes thanks for your involvement in this thread ! I'll read this again and again.... I was on NSX for a while as I passed my VCP ;) Thomas
I hope so ! my client bought it... and I'll have hands on it in a few days from now ! "patient is mother of all virtues" ;)
Many thanks Jon ! I'll check it right away, best regards, Thomas
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