@John-Nicholson said in Adding a New Hyperconverged Cluster to Your Existing Network:

Of course, there is always the option to keep the old infrastructure indefinitely. This can be an excellent choice if the old infrastructure is purpose designed for a specific workload, such as perhaps VDI, and the HC cluster is designed for more general purpose needs (or vice versa, of course.) Using each tuned for specific use cases is absolutely viable, but does require knowledge of and support of two different clusters each of a unique type which creates IT overhead, but remains a very realistic option.

I'd argue dropping the skill sets to maintain legacy clusters is one of the main appeals to HCI. (I Personally want to FORGET about HBA Queue depth management, and FC Zoning). The problem of running old gear indefinably is the hardware support costs, environmental costs, and lack of support for new hypervisor versions and other things eventually catch up with you before you realize it.

Yes, it's technical debt for sure and in most cases, you want to head towards phasing it out. But whatever skill set you had for it, you will still have at the time that you begin replacing it and can slowly reduce the dependency and the skills related to it together.

Suggested edit:

We assume that not only does buying the most expensive, most famous products will be judged well compared to less expensive or less well known ones. We can also assume that but that those in Management see buying products is seen as beneficial to not buying products; even though often the best IT decisions are to not buy things when no need exists.

Wherever I've worked decisions have always been made collectively amongst various stakeholders.

Often involving politics, diplomacy, compromise and ego-stroking.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

@scottalanmiller

But I work for non profit organization ... where cheap means cheap

As Jared points out, if their goal was to provide whatever service that their mandate is, they would not be cheap. Cheap is just another work for wasteful or ineffective.

This one has been intended for years, but never bubbled to the top of the writing list.

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

obviously inspired by many conversations that were had today elsewhere.

What conversations were these?

I think what you call “Anecdotal Dismissal of Risk.” is generally referred to as the outcome bias

You are correct.