Scaling HCI as the business grows is easier too. Traditional architecture requires procuring and configuring the particular SAN hardware and servers depending on the business requirements. As the business grows, adding new servers and SANs doesn’t add as much capacity as businesses expect, meaning performance declines relative to architecture size, Jones said.
“The bottleneck here is the capacity and capability of the actual storage controllers themselves,” he noted. “The storage controllers have not scaled with the SAN. That has added capacity, which is something that might be used by the environment, but it’s a wasted investment when it comes to application performance, which drops off over time.”
HCI scales in a linear fashion. Organizations get more capacity simply by adding nodes.
HCI also has disaster recovery benefits built in. Organizations can set up a dedicated failover site with data replicated synchronously and can recover data using automated recovery plans. Disaster Recovery as a Service enables organizations to replicate data to the cloud without standing up a backup site.
“The infrastructure and process powering all the capabilities are managed from the same web-based user interface that you use to manage the rest of your environment,” Carter said. “So it makes keeping everything protected really easy.”
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