@Dashrender said in Key Factors in Choosing On-Premises IT vs. Public Cloud:

Can you compare a self hosted solution to anything? other than another self hosted solution?

Not clear on what you are asking.

It's on my calendar. I want to hear about all the new stuff @scale is up to!

@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:

What is holding it now that is not a NAS?

It started life on a bare metal 2003 R2 server in late 2007. Lived there until last year, when with the help of a friend who used to work for the now gobbled and displaced EHR company, he helped me migrate the entire thing to a Windows 2012 R2 VM. This VM is 750 GB total storage assigned, using around 640 GB. It's not growing anymore, pretty sure it's thin provisioned (it is, but it's expanded itself out to 716 GB).

This VM host has 1.1 TB of RAID 10 (8 drives 10K 300 GB).

Updated map - while the effects are lessened,.. they coverage is nearly the same.

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It goes to 11, so it must be better than the ones that only go to 10.
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@dafyre said in Introducing the Single Node Scale HC3 Appliance:

Will end-users be able to grow slowly? IE: Grow from one node to 2... and then eventually buy a third?

or would it be a jump straight from 1 node to 3 nodes?

Unfortunately at this time there is no means of growing from one to two. The jump is from one to three and one node at a time from then on. This is because of the need of a witness to avoid split brain of the cluster. One node avoids this by not having high availabilty, three and more nodes handle this by always having a witness. At two nodes there are complications that do not exist otherwise. So at this time, there is no two node option.

Except, of course, if you were in a situation where two nodes was useful through replication. That works with two nodes.

@Dashrender said in Cloud Computing vs. Hyperconvergence:

@travisdh1 said in Cloud Computing vs. Hyperconvergence:

@Dashrender said in Cloud Computing vs. Hyperconvergence:

@scottalanmiller said in Cloud Computing vs. Hyperconvergence:

@travisdh1 said in Cloud Computing vs. Hyperconvergence:

@Dashrender said in Cloud Computing vs. Hyperconvergence:

But as we are constantly drilled by @scottalanmiller, most SMBs don't need HA. They can often afford hours, or even days of downtime.

I generally agree with you. Our local 911 center was down for something like 36 hours a couple weeks back, made my head spin that. It's just the edge case to support @scottalanmiller's rule.

They probably could have benefited from some better planning.

I'm guessing they had a plan, they just forwarded their phones to another 911 call center to handle the situation while they were down.

The county sheriff announced on the radio (yeah, I still listen to it when it's time for news), no 911 service, didn't even get the calls forwarded to a different 911 center. I mean, Wooster, OH and Wayne County are small, but you don't have 2 911 centers in the county at least? I would've thought the city and county would have one each, at least service doesn't get completely interrupted if one happens to go down, sheesh.

Actually, that doesn't surprise me at all that the only have one. What is surprising is that they didn't have agreements with the next county over to take over their calls in case of an outage. Call the phone company and just hard forward all calls to the next county... wow.. just wow.

Right, that is the logical way to go. Stark should have been able to handle those calls easily.

@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!