Category: Hyperconverged

A Storage Debate Q&A: Hyperconverged vs. Disaggregated vs. Centralized

John Kim
The SNIA Networking Storage Forum recently hosted another webcast in our Great Storage Debate webcast series. This time, our SNIA experts debated three competing visions about how storage should be done: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Disaggregated Storage, and Centralized Storage. If you missed the live event, it’s available on-demand. Questions from the webcast attendees made the panel debate quite lively. As promised, here are answers to those questions. Q. Can you imagine a realistic scenario where the different storage types are used as storage tiers? How much are they interoperable? Read More

Another Great Storage Debate: Hyperconverged vs. Disaggregated vs. Centralized

David McIntyre
The SNIA Networking Storage Forum’s “Great Storage Debate” webcast series is back! This time, SNIA experts will be discussing the ongoing evolution of the data center, in particular how storage is allocated and managed. There are three competing visions about how storage should be done: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Disaggregated Storage, and Centralized Storage. Join us on May 4, 2021 for our live webcast Great Storage Debate: Hyperconverged vs. Disaggregated vs. Centralized. IT architects, storage vendors, and industry analysts argue constantly over which is the best approach and even the exact definition of each. Isn’t Hyperconverged constrained? Is Disaggregated designed only for large cloud service providers? Is Centralized storage only for legacy applications? Read More

What Are the Networking Requirements for HCI?

J Metz
Hyperconverged infrastructures (also known as “HCI”) are designed to be easy to set up and manage. All you need to do is add networking. In practice, the “add networking” part has been more difficult than most anticipated. That’s why the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) hosted a live webcast “The Networking Requirements for Hyperconverged Infrastructure” where we covered what HCI is, storage characteristics of HCI, and important networking considerations. If you missed it, it’s available on-demand. We had some interesting questions during the live webcast and as we promised during the live presentation, here are answers from our expert presenters: Read More

We’re Debating Again: Centralized vs. Distributed Storage

J Metz
We hope you’ve been following the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) “Great Storage Debates” webcast series. We’ve done four so far and they have been incredibly popular with 4,000 live and on-demand views to date and counting. Check out the links to all of them at the end of this blog. Although we have “versus” in the title of these presentations, the goal of this series is not to have a winner emerge, but rather provide a “compare and contrast” that educates attendees on how the technologies work, the advantages of each, and to explore common use cases. That’s exactly what we plan to do on September 11, 2018 when we host “Centralized vs. Distributed Storage.” Read More

We’ve Been Thinking…What Does Hyperconverged Mean to Storage?

John Kim

Here at the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF), we’ve been discussing how hyperconverged adoption will impact storage. Converged Infrastructure (CI), Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), along with Cluster or Cloud In a Box (CIB) are popular trend topics that have gained both industry and customer adoption. As part of data infrastructures, CI, HCI, and CIB enable simplified deployment of resources (servers, storage, I/O networking, hypervisor, application software) across different environments.

But what do these approaches mean for the storage environment? What are the key concerns and considerations related specifically to storage? How will the storage be connected to (or included in) the platform? Who will protect and backup the data? And most importantly, how do you know that you’re asking the right questions in order to get to the right answers?

Find out on March 15th in a live SNIA-ESF webcast, “What Does Hyperconverged Mean to Storage.” We’ve invited expert Greg Schulz, founder and analyst of Server StorageIO, to answer the questions we’ve been debating. Join us, as Greg will move beyond the hype (pun intended) to discuss:

  • What are the storage considerations for CI, CIB and HCI
  • Why fast applications and fast servers need fast I/O
  • Networking and server-storage I/O considerations
  • How to avoid aggravation-causing aggregation (bottlenecks)
  • Aggregated vs. disaggregated vs. hybrid converged
  • Planning, comparing, benchmarking and decision-making
  • Data protection, management and east-west I/O traffic
  • Application and server north-south I/O traffic

Register today and please bring your questions. We’ll be on-hand to answer them during this event. We hope to see you there!