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The last few weeks have been incredibly exciting and busy at the same time.
VMware announced the next major step in the evolution of their SDS platform.
Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.2 introduced all-new capabilities including reduction techniques (deduplication/compression), Quality-of Service (QoS) and enhanced monitoring.
The new version also meant a change in the licensing model by adding an Enterprise edition at the high-end. Because VSAN is a kernel-integrated solution, the product itself ships with the release of vSphere 6.0 Update 2 sometime in March.
“Who’s best “all-rounder”, who has been catching up significantly and who has ‘best of breed’ data protection features …?”
Close to a week after VMware’s announcement, Nutanix released Acropolis Operating Sytem (AOS) version 4.6 for their Xtreme Compute Platform (XCP). New General Availability (GA) features include hypervisor portability, self-service file recovery, one-click firmware upgrades and enhancements to existing features like Erasure Coding. The new release also includes a few interesting Tech Preview features like native CIFS (SMB) file sharing and advanced statistics for the central management platform, PRISM. In contrast to VSAN, Nutanix’ new version of AOS has already been made available for download a few weeks back.
The last two weeks we have been working in close collaboration with both vendors to validate and optimize the content of the SDS/HCI matrix.
At the same time we also received some updated information from SimpliVity on their OmniCube offering. Solid information, great feedback and healthy discussions have led to what we believe is a more complete and even better SDS & HCI comparison. You’ll notice a massive number of additions as well as updates to the overall structure.
We now cover about 85 features in total across 4 platforms and 9 products!
With all the updates processed, where does that leave the platforms currently included? Nutanix XCP is still the best all-round platform with exciting new features on the way. VMware VSAN is doing a great job at catching up, while seemingly shifting the focus a little from hybrid to all-flash. SimpliVity DVP is definately still king where local and remote data protection features are concerned. Last but certainly not least the Atlantis USX platform has evolved immensely by adding enterprise features and offering a hyper-converged appliance.
Please go ahead, take a closer look and do let us know what you think!
Herman Rutten – Category Consultant
Herman Rutten
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