AskEMCITconvinfra

Hyper CI is focused more for small businesses,. Where they dont necessarily need all high end features

and is highly scalable

and is highly scalable

Hyper Converged Infrastructures can start with small scale with EMC VSPEX BLUE, as low as 4 nodes to VCE VxRacks solution, which is geared for enterprises and services providers.

VxRacks is massively scalable from half a rack to hundreds of racks

Typically the use case will determine the size of CI and Hyper converged CI

@SriniMaguluri is Vblock and VxRacks similar, what will be the segment for each

Both CI and Hyper CI are pre engineered systems, which are geared towards Platform 2/2.5 and 2.5/3.0 workloads

thanks!

Use Vblock for your traditional enterprise apps like ERP, CRM, Messaging etc. VxRacks for data center and service provider scale use cases like Big data and analytics.

CI and Hyper CI eliminate the guess of integrating differing technology components and focus on the business out comes. Complexities like HW/SW compatibility are eliminated.

yes, we have two use cases now with more planned

. Yes. Hyper Converged Infrastructure is the next phase of CI, where virtualization, compute, storage and management in a software-defined stack running on commodity of the shelf (COTS) servers, delivering massive scalability.

Hyper Converged can scale from few nodes to 1000s of nodes

Truly elastic workloads will benefit from Hyper CI infrastructures

All types, like SAP, Exchange and VDI.

Applications like ERP/CRM, IaaS workloads and VDI are running on CI

/ @SriniMaguluri Is there a clear benefit to running these apps on CI?

Speed and agility

East of procurement, building, managing and delivering SLAs to business

@pdiv & @SriniMaguluri is there a trade-off with CI? does greater speed and agility mean less benefits somewhere else down the line?

Not at all. Converged Infrastructure lays out a solid foundation to you business, and a number of capabilities can be added without losing agility.

no

Scaling of Infrastructure for delivery models using EHC, applications like Big Data can be leveraged using CI

Staff can focus higher up the stack and leave the non-value add work to the vendors

IT could roll out services faster and experiment on newer services with ease

Yes, but wouldn't you rather have you team focus on the higher value tasks?

Our goal is to implement some self healing functions so it will almost manage itself

Or will CI enable that path #emcworld

DevOps is paving the way for CI. Developers doesn't want to deal with Infrastructure complexity and Ops want to build stack which can be used for wider varieties of applications. CI is also enabling adoption of DevOps in enterprises

Traditionally Infrastructures are built not to fail. But in DevOps model using containers and micro services, a failure of a single component is not catastrophic

Traditionally Infrastructures are built not to fail. But in DevOps model using containers and micro services, a failure of a single component is not catastrophic, rather the application was built to handle these and quickly recover.

Thanks srini, if ops has less to worry about infra, they can offer better services to developers

Yes. They can be pro active in capacity planning, just in time infrastructure for applications, there by enhancing the developer productivity and enabling continuous development and integration aspects

@SriniMaguluri

Converged Infrastructures will simplify the delivery with reduced costs with less personnel resources and reduced complexity

You can also suggest hyper converged infrastructure

What differentiates converged and hyper converged infrastructure? #EMCWorld

*days

28, using EHC

Wow..

What are the challenges in implementing and getting applications on top