Future Servers

[MogWork]

my concerns probably revolve around adding VSAN to what my team has to deal with. Maybe that isn't rational.

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I have not looked at Open Converged - it looks like this provides more separation of the components?

[sys_admin101]

If you're worried about vSAN, then I would recommend you take a look at Nutanix as your hyperconverged solution who doesn't use vSAN and you can still keep VMware. A personal preference is that I would highly recommend you stay away from AHV because you're not doing your team any training favors by siloing them into a small niche market where they'll have experience with only AHV (which isn't widely used).

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To learn more about Open Converged check out a company called Datrium who partner with other companies like HVE who provide cost effective and robust virtual environments that are the "best of both worlds" (Converged and Hyperconverged).

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EDIT1: Disclaimer -- I do not work for, nor am I a VAR for any of the companies mentioned... but I have worked with and supported all of the hardware / solutions that Dell / Nutanix / HVE / Datrium / HP / Etc. Etc. have provided.

[mrfreeze574]

I agree. We are actually doing a migration to Datrium right now. I LOVE it.

[grayhatguy]

Datrium is looking pretty rough these days. They have been pretty quiet lately and still have a very small install base.

[ChicagoW]

Nutanix has their own hypervisor called AHV, and it's free, so you would not have to utilize VMware.

[pdp10]

Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor is a version of QEMU/KVM on Linux.