js411 wrote:
I've been hearing all this buzz, so I decided to take a look at VSA. From what I've read:
- It creates effectly a NAS appliance which can be used as remote NFS storage for VMs
- I can only have up to 3 hosts
- I can only deploy up to 35 VMs on it
- I can't add or remove hosts once it's deployed
- I need to buy 2-3 identical servers + disks for those servers + ESXi for each + $5,995 for VSA
- I can only do RAID 1 mirroring
- I can't put anything else but VMs on it
- Per this whitepaper it only does 1,000 - 1,500 IOPS http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsa-perf-vsphere5.pdf
Why is this compelling to deploy? For far less money I could buy shared iSCSI/SAS/FCoE storage or a NAS device that would be much better performance and can host many more VMs.
I must be missing something?????? I mean it's cool and all... but is this just a bunch of marketing hype...?
Hi all depend upon your requirement and will to effort , even market having multiple barand still customer priority having few brand only .
even that can get more in less omney in other brands.
Yours,
Satya 