Use Cases, Considerations, Pros & Cons of VMware vSAN / HCI

Are you still considering if hyper converged or HCI is a good fit for your organization? Or perhaps just want to understand a little more about HCI in general, this video will provide you a good high level understanding of how HCI compares with traditional SAN, the good / bad use cases, considerations and myths, pros and cons of a HCI solution.

I have provided you guys the timelines to jump to the relevant sections.

(00:00) What about this video?
(00:23) Recap of HCI vs SAN
(02:16) Good & Bad Use Cases
(04:22) Performance & Scale
(06:27) Pros & Cons of HCI
(10:52) Conclusion

[weishenmejames]

Terrific overview on the pros and cons of HCI with tangible use case examples of where it works well and why - well done.

[venkatkrishnamachari]

Hi Charles . It is a great presentation on when HCI

[blckhwk]

Thanks for the video, good luck with the channel!

[JeromeChee]

Hi Charles! This is a great video! BTW one challenge I find as a non technical is going about doing sizing for HCI. If possible, can you do a simple walkthrough for HCI sizing?

[parkerschmitt]

What are your thoughts about companies like NetThunder? They let you build physical 3 tier systems without having to do any work. It seems that people virtualize to make things easier to manage but these guys seem to be able to do that with physical servers.

[LogicArray]

Thanks for your clip
I do have q if possible to check it out
What would happen for the vsan if vcenter which controlling is corrupted?