Scale with Increased Capacity
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2016 has been a remarkable year for Scale Computing and one of our biggest achievements was the release of the HC1150 appliance. The HC1150 significantly boosted the power and capacity of our HC1000 series and featured hybrid flash storage at a very affordable price. As a result, the HC1150 is our most popular HC3 model but, of course, we couldn’t stop there.
First, we have begun offering 8TB drives in our HC1000 series appliances to increase the maximum storage capacity by almost double (or actually double it on the HC1100). Data sets are ever increasing in size and this increase in storage capacity means you can grow capacity even faster and more affordably, one node at a time. The unique ability of HC3 to mix and match nodes of varying capacity (and across hardware generations!) means your storage can grow as needed each time you expand your cluster.
Secondly, we have introduced a new HC1150D appliance for pre-sale which doubles the CPU capacity with a second physical processor. CPU can often be a performance bottleneck in scaling out the number of VMs supported. With this increase in CPU capacity, the HC1150D scales out an HC3 cluster to support more compute power across a greater number of VMs. The HC1150D also doubles available RAM configuration up to 512GB per appliance.
Below is a preview of the new configuration ranges and starting pricing for the HC1000 series, including the HC1150D.
Original Post: http://blog.scalecomputing.com/scale-with-increased-capacity/
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Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
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@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
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@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
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@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
Yeah. My current infrastructure isn't exactly SMB. We have ~30 VMware servers and a butt load of Nimble storage SANs, lol.
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@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
Yeah. My current infrastructure isn't exactly SMB. We have ~30 VMware servers and a butt load of Nimble storage SANs, lol.
Ah, well yeah, then time to replace that all with a single Scale cluster. The capacity listed there is just for a tiny three node cluster. You can get a lot bigger. If you needed 3TB of RAM, for example, that's easy to get to.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
Yeah. My current infrastructure isn't exactly SMB. We have ~30 VMware servers and a butt load of Nimble storage SANs, lol.
Ah, well yeah, then time to replace that all with a single Scale cluster. The capacity listed there is just for a tiny three node cluster. You can get a lot bigger. If you needed 3TB of RAM, for example, that's easy to get to.
I'm still pushing to get a demo system here on campus. Keeps falling on deaf ears though.
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@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
Yeah. My current infrastructure isn't exactly SMB. We have ~30 VMware servers and a butt load of Nimble storage SANs, lol.
Ah, well yeah, then time to replace that all with a single Scale cluster. The capacity listed there is just for a tiny three node cluster. You can get a lot bigger. If you needed 3TB of RAM, for example, that's easy to get to.
I'm still pushing to get a demo system here on campus. Keeps falling on deaf ears though.
Probably some people have careers depending on specific complex technologies that would be eliminated with a simpler system.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
double the cost of the base units? So we're going from $25K entry to $50K entry.. well I'm guessing fewer people will be buying now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
my issue is disk - I have 400 GB of scanned documents I need on the system.
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@Dashrender said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
double the cost of the base units? So we're going from $25K entry to $50K entry.. well I'm guessing fewer people will be buying now.
comprehension problems? He is talking about the decked out unit compared to the base unit.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
Awww missed the of...
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@Dashrender said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
double the cost of the base units? So we're going from $25K entry to $50K entry.. well I'm guessing fewer people will be buying now.
Entry is $7K
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@Dashrender said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
my issue is disk - I have 400 GB of scanned documents I need on the system.
How is that a problem? That's tiny.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@Dashrender said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
my issue is disk - I have 400 GB of scanned documents I need on the system.
How is that a problem? That's tiny.
I'm walking away - I misread something and now ... well just now ...
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@Dashrender said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@Dashrender said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@scottalanmiller said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
@dafyre said in Scale with Increased Capacity:
Why is the cost of 3 x 1150D's over $108k ?
17k x 3 = 51k?
Check the specs on the cluster. That's for the biggest CPUs, biggest SSD/HD combo, biggest RAM option. It's a maxed out three node cluster, not an entry level three node cluster within the 1150D range. And with the 10GigE upgrade.
Just making sure I wasn't missing anything, lol.
From what I can tell, they are about double the cost of the base units, but it's a pretty massive upgrade across the board. The total 1.5TB of RAM, 60 Xeon cores and like 72GB or more of storage is pretty big
I could replace our entire VMware infrastructure with that here, lol... Maybe with two full boats.
It's a very rare SMB that doesn't fit into a bit less than that. That's a tonne of capacity. And that's like nearly 6TB of SSD tiering so the performance is pretty crazy on the disk side as well.
my issue is disk - I have 400 GB of scanned documents I need on the system.
How is that a problem? That's tiny.
I'm walking away - I misread something and now ... well just now ...
Don't feel to bad, that's normally my job around here!
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If you have a single, giant document storage need I really like Exablox for offloading that. Triple mirroring and change block tracking with immutable history so ransomware can't touch your files.
