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The "average" VMware customer has a whole bunch more disparate applications and workloads.

My take on that was that was 7 years ago; times are faster now; but great question

Many of those likely end up in some form of cloud over time, many of those will not. #technologylongtails

does you think VMware customers will follow Netflix lead and move apps to AWS, or wait for VMware to catch up with their cloud strategy/offerings?

@sbacon_vmware agreed. All about workload placement.

I think VMware customers are curious as to how they save money and add agility. The challenge is VMware seems to have the mindshare of how to do so technically among these customers

I think some of the shine is coming off AWS and enterprises have to balance cost and compliance. VMware has opportunity.

PLENTY of opportunity to add value in helping IT manage and migrate workloads across hybrid environments

They did not move everything to the cloud just streaming. The IT needs of the DVD shipping is more static/predictable and so it didn't make the cloud journey.

@Lost_Signal even then it's not exactly "all public cloud" (re: https://twitter.com/... ) since facilities based broadband providers can and do leverage on prem cache cascading _hardware_ to preposition 'hot' titles

Might not mean that much. Nexflix chose 2 refactor their key streaming app; most enterprises have many key apps. Netflix chose not 2 refactor or move their legacy DVD app cuz it wasn't worth the time & energy.

@kenhuiny much of the fervor over Netflix migration minutia is framed or selectively ignored by (myopic) biased arguments where a holistic view of true complexities would render more useful debate IMHO ;-)

Too big a question for my little brain. 100% focused on getting VSAN recognized for its current success AND driving more moving forward

I think object storage and copy data management are underrated.

@sbacon_vmware VSAN is a winner! Congrats

with 3000+ #VSAN customers, up from 2000+ only 6 months ago, seem to agree!

keep an eye on "Tupperware Party" IT (containers) for whoever gets it right

3000+ customers?

Hyper-V had more customers then VMware, but no one used Hyper-V

Yes, per VMW's earnings release. 3,000+ licensed VSAN/hyper-converged software customers. Biggest of any publically-disclosing vendor.

Seriously?

Lots of public references on vmware.com to reinforce customer adoption

@vaporfog 3000+ http://www.vmware.co...

where are the case studies? what workloads are they running? VSAN was initially Tier 2 workloads? What changed?

And yes public companies subject these kinds of assertions to EXTREME scrutiny before making them

@Ben 23 case studies on vmware.com/a/custome... alone. 4 major releases of VSAN later, LOTS of tier 1 prod workloads...

Every copy of vsphere includes vsan. doesn't mean the same.

Ben factually incorrect. VSAN is licensed separately from vSphere. We're claiming real licensed customers here.

what is the max supported nodes or appliances in a VSAN based HA stretched cluster ? Is it 32 now and 64 from Q2?

Is VSPEX Blue getting discontinued and replaced by this?

Can I purchase VxRAIL without ANY VMware licensing and instead buy a VMware ELA for my licensing?

Does VXRAIL require it's own vCenter?

Are the vmware licenses included in the vxrail appliances?

if you want NSX you need vxrack or vxblock

Can I purchase VxRAIL without ANY VMware licensing and instead buy a VMware ELA for my licensing?

Is there is flexibility to use higher than 10GbE networking (like 25 or 40GbE)

Is the VSAN config all flash or hybrid?

Is there a way to buy it without vSphere Licences to use it for a VDI enviromnent by buying Horizon or WorkspaceONE licenses seperatly

112 cores in single unit. How many sockets for those 112 cores?

Do we have to upgrade in 4 node increments? when is single node increments supported?

Does it DeDup?

How the replication works? Sync and Async?

What version of VSAN will be offered?

When does it do the de-duplication and compression, post process, inline at inception?

Is this a VCE product or EMC product? Can I buy from my EMC reseller if they're not a VCE reseller?

Can VDI Licensing be included on this Bundle ? If so? How many ?

Where does the dedupe and compression happen? The Kernel?

How many 10GbE ports per appliance ?

Is there is a limit for growing? like 64 nodes?

If 76 TB is limit per appliance can I get smaller options?

In a cluster of 4 appliances, can 2 appliances be all flash and another 2 appliances can be Hybrid ?

External File stroage is supported?

Can #VXRail scale horizontally? i.e. cpu from first appliance sees the storage from a second?

what is the spec for the $60K VxRail Appliance?

@DBAStorage I'm digging for a datasheet

Did Cisco participate in the development of this product through the VCE partnership?

@DBAStorage the $60K is the VxRail 60 with 4 nodes, see the specs on VCE.com according to EMC VMware keynote today

The Storage appears as one single pool and virtual machines can vMotion without performance impact.

NFS and iSCSI should work just fine.

http://www.vce.com/p...

deduplication/compression is accomplished during destaging to the capacity tier. 4K blocks. Near-line is the term we use.

Stretched Cluster support in #VSAN62 allows for clusters of 15+15+1, 15/site & 1 witness. This has not changed since introduced in 6.1.

all-flash #VSAN62 configurations support Deduplication/Compression.

VxRail ships with its own vCenter, additional appliances for same cluster register with it.

replication can be sync or async via Recoverpoint4VM's

@jasemccarty apologies if I am wrong, my understanding was that deduplication/compression was only available in VSAN6.2 with all-flash, so no destaging to capacity tier

@DBAStorage all-flash has cache devices as well as capacity devices. In AFVSAN, all of them are flash.

@DBAStorage and for clarity, AF will be available in #VSAN 6.2 based VxRAIL appliances that are AF.

VxRail configs are available with both hybrid and all-flash storage

All nodes in the same appliance must be the same, but you can cluster different models of the appliances.

Nope! This is NSX supported and a VDS is deployed by default to start.

you can use RP4VM to achieve async or sync replication.

There are 2 10GigE connections per node (and 4 nodes per appliance) on the 120 and higher. The VxRail 60 has 4 1GigE connections per node