@cakeis_not_alie said in What is Real Hyperconverged Infrastructure?:

Marketing lingo dispensed with, hyperconergence is ease of use. It's IT infrastructure for people who don't have time to fuss over IT infrastructure. And by that definition, Scale has served me extremely well. So kudos to Scale...
...and long may the Scale Legion reign!

This.... very much this... They do it extremely well!

@DustinB3403 said in Turning Hyperconvergence up to 11:

That is awesome!

Thank you. This post was actually a bit late. I was posting another article and went to link to this one and realized that I had not posted it yet! So a little behind, but still great info.

Yep, implemented the same, for a majority of our clients... it's quick n easy to deploy, and manage .. This, along with Thin-clients, has been a winning combo for us .. . works like a charm every time ..

Going a bit off-topic - Earlier, this year , we were contacted by a vendor, pushing these really really dirt cheap China-made thin-clients (They go by the name Thnder-X) ... So, for $18 a pop (only if you buy a minimum of 50 Units), it offers : -

Arm Cortex 1.8ghz CPU
1GB RAM
512MB on-board Flash
100/1000 Network Port
3 USB ports (2xUSB 2.0, 1x USB 3)
1 HDMI Port + 1 VGA Port support upto 1920x1080 / 32 bit colour depth / Dual Display
Audio Port.
7.5W Power consumption
Windows CE

We were rather skeptical at first, so the vendor gave us a unit to demo ... We're using it on a daily basis for around a month.. Worked well for most basic office tasks (Documents, Spreadsheets, Emails, Browsing, Accounting etc) ... Videos didn't do too well, but still, not as bad as we were expecting ..

The only catch is that it comes with a 6 month replacement warranty...

We bought around 10 units, and gifted 4 to a client ... at $18/unit, I don't mind gifting these to 20 MangoLassi users ... you pay for your own shipping ... hehehe

Anyway, the client has been using these in a production environment (on the above setup), for over 6 months, and they've been pretty happy with it, so far ..

I just mentioned this concept in a post elsewhere earlier today, in fact. This is an extension of the YAGNI Principle that is commonly known in software engineering circles but is often overlooked in IT ones.

There has been some discussion about Scale presence in the UK market, so really wanted to share this case study with you guys. Thanks, as always!

They did this for the sole reason that this was the only way to continue providing their solutions based on the legacy vendors and their lock out and lack of access.

Not sure where this information came from.
PernixData, SanDisk’s Flashsoft, and ScaleIO have all used kernel modules with vSphere...

The reason these vendors use VSA's is a combination of factors, largest of which writing kernel code is hard...

@Dashrender said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:

@PSX_Defector said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:

SATA is perfectly fine for 90% of what people do. It's the 8% that need something more that would need SAS based while the last 2% will need PCI-E performance.

With numbers like those, ML seems like an odd place to be talking/worrying about it. Also, are the last 10% really looking at a Scale Cluster? I suppose some percentage of them might be.

90% of what people do, not 90% of people. It's a much higher percentage of people. That's why the Scale HC3 tiering system is such a good fit, we believe. It allows the majority of your storage to be tuned to sit on the SATA drives, which are perfectly fast enough for 90% of your needs, and lets the 10% of your needs that need to be on high performance SSD to sit there without needing two different solutions.

And with our heat mapping technology we help to tune the workloads for what is used rather than forcing you to pick manually for all workloads. You can override this with manual priorities, but on its own it self tunes.

So our hope is that the 90/10 split which is a good way to think of it actually makes Scale ideal for the majority of users because they have the 90/10 mix rather than in spite of it.

@davedemlow said in Hyperconvergence & VDI:

@dafyre currently we do not ... but as above, things can change based on customer demand, technology changes, etc.

Awe man. What if we want to run CAD desktops on a scale cluster..........
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I solemnly swear that games WOULD be played on such a system.

@Breffni-Potter said in The Four Things That You Lose with Scale Computing HC3:

@scottalanmiller said

It's all ethernet, so you could mix it together on a single switch and just VLAN them apart from each other.

I'm trying to be blunt. 🙂

Do I need a switch at all for the backplane or can they communicate directly? Do I need to factor in 10GigE switches for redundancy as well?

Did we manage to answer your questions?

Sorry for taking a bit, I was able to find it for you. Here is the link:

Disaster Recovery Made Easy from Scale Webinar

@scale - Suitably impressed at Spiceworld London. Jason Collier was very helpful.

Definitely on the books to consider for server installs.

The cluster is back online and we are spinning up workloads now. Very excited.

Mee too, bit late

@craig.theriac Ok, hats off. That is cute. And some great marketing!