Can somebody explain the difference between DSS V7 active-active as a Vsphere Appliance vs. VSphere 5.1 Storage Appliance included now in VSphere Essentials Plus 5.1 ? At a first look is seems to be a similar concept....
Can somebody explain the difference between DSS V7 active-active as a Vsphere Appliance vs. VSphere 5.1 Storage Appliance included now in VSphere Essentials Plus 5.1 ? At a first look is seems to be a similar concept....
We know about this and from our customers and partners have informed us is that this is not really active / active also they way they do it is a little different then our setup and design. The cost is more then our but in the past theirs was not voted very well and is the reason thy are adding it for free now.
I might want to add in reading the spec for the smb package for 5.1 they offer a base of only 2 CPU's per host so 2 per host up to 3 so if you have a low amount of VM's then this would be a good solution but if you have more then I would recommend more. We had a OECE training event last year using 5.0 with 2 CPU's (fast w/ cache and 4x cores) and with 20 VM's (DSS V6) was slow.