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June 2, 2025 by George Crump

Enterprise AI

Organizations across every industry recognize the transformational potential of generative AI. However, deploying these powerful capabilities on-premises has historically been complex, costly, and difficult to manage. Until now. Introducing VergeIQ—an integrated generative AI capability built directly into VergeOS, the unified data center operating system.

With VergeIQ, generative AI becomes another powerful infrastructure resource, seamlessly integrated alongside virtualization, storage, and networking within VergeOS. Once VergeOS is installed, your enterprise immediately gains access to VergeIQ—no additional software, no complicated setups, and no dedicated AI infrastructure required. VergeIQ is built-in, turnkey, and available to IT to help with infrastructure tasks and the organization at large to gain AI insights into proprietary data.

Why On-Premises and Secure AI Matters

Deploying AI completely on-premises is fundamental to achieving genuinely private or sovereign AI capabilities. Hosting AI within your own data center infrastructure ensures full control over sensitive or proprietary information, eliminating the risks associated with external or cloud-based providers. By keeping data entirely within organizational boundaries, enterprises can confidently meet stringent regulatory requirements and compliance standards. An on-premises approach prevents data exposure during transmission and storage in external environments, making it the most reliable way to ensure true data privacy, security, and sovereignty.

How VergeIQ Makes Enterprise AI Practical

Traditional enterprise AI deployments typically require standalone environments, expensive hardware stacks, and deep technical expertise. By introducing VergeIQ, we are breaking down these barriers by embedding AI as a resource natively within the VergeOS platform. This unified approach simplifies deployment, reduces costs, enhances performance, and eliminates the complexity typically associated with generative AI infrastructure.

As a result, enterprises can immediately and privately begin leveraging powerful generative AI models, such as LLaMa, Qwen, Phi, Gemma, within minutes after installing VergeOS. VergeIQ’s design allows you to securely and privately interact with your sensitive documents, proprietary code, and confidential internal datasets, without ever sending your information outside your infrastructure.

Enterprise AI with Day 1 Value

Rapid Analysis and Insights from Internal Documents

From day one, your users will be able to securely upload a wide range of common document types, including PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, text files, HTML pages, and more. VergeIQ quickly processes these documents and generates secure, context-rich summaries, actionable insights, and content tailored to your organization’s information within your own infrastructure. No data leaves your control.

Use Enterprise AI to Securely Explore Proprietary Source Code

For software development teams, VergeIQ is invaluable. It lets you instantly audit, analyze, and optimize your proprietary software codebases, without ever sending sensitive intellectual property off-premises. Developers can quickly identify potential issues, create clear documentation, and accelerate software delivery, all securely within the VergeOS environment.

Accelerate Infrastructure Automation

VergeIQ simplifies infrastructure automation, enabling IT teams to rapidly generate accurate scripts, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) definitions, and workflows. Instead of relying solely on manual scripting, you can securely query VergeIQ to generate automation code tailored to your environment, significantly accelerating infrastructure management across your entire data center.

Use Enterprise AI to Generate Tailored Enterprise Content

VergeIQ empowers business and marketing teams by quickly generating internal documentation, knowledge-base articles, HR policies, or customer communications from your secure, private data sources. Enterprises can confidently produce content that is not only accurate and relevant but also fully compliant with their governance requirements.

Infrastructure Intelligence

And of course, VergeIQ supports querying your IT infrastructure itself. By leveraging the power of VergeIQ, infrastructure teams can obtain immediate operational insights, analyze workloads, predict capacity requirements, and simplify day-to-day operational decision-making. All infrastructure data remains secure, private, and fully accessible within your data center.

Why VergeIQ Makes Sense for Enterprise AI

Hardware Abstraction without Compromise

VergeIQ incorporates intelligent GPU orchestration, vendor-agnostic GPU support, dynamic resource pooling, and highly optimized storage performance. This ensures maximum hardware efficiency, near-bare-metal performance, and lower power consumption. By leveraging VergeOS’s unified architecture, organizations can reach their sustainability goals while enhancing productivity and reducing costs.

Ready to see VergeIQ in action? Register for our world-premier webinar on June 12th.

OpenAI Ready

VergeIQ includes a built-in API router compatible with OpenAI, delivering a smooth and familiar experience for developers. Existing code, scripts, and integrations written for OpenAI APIs can work unchanged, except that your AI models run locally on your infrastructure. This means reduced latency, increased security, and complete data sovereignty, all without the complexity typically associated with private AI deployments.

Use Enterprise AI and gain Operational Simplicity

Enterprise AI

No Additional Installation Required

A defining characteristic of VergeIQ is its total integration within VergeOS. VergeOS is already recognized as a leading alternative to VMware, helping enterprises simplify their infrastructure and reduce costs. With VergeIQ, the same installation that handles virtualization, storage (VergeFS), and networking (VergeFabric) also provides comprehensive generative AI capabilities—no additional installations, complicated AI stacks, or specialized training needed.

VMware Exit Today, AI Tomorrow—One Platform, Two Major Wins

For many of our customers, transitioning away from VMware to a simpler, cost-effective infrastructure is the top priority. VergeOS is a leading VMware alternative, designed specifically to streamline this process. Introducing VergeIQ shouldn’t change that priority; it should accelerate it, as it is already included with the VergeOS deployment you’ll use as your VMware alternative. Once you’ve completed your migration away from VMware, you’ll immediately have access to a complete generative AI platform, right within your own data center.

But if you’re not ready to exit VMware just yet, you don’t have to wait. You can deploy VergeOS alongside your existing VMware infrastructure right now, instantly gaining access to VergeIQ’s generative AI capabilities. Begin benefiting from VergeIQ immediately, then transition from VMware to VergeOS when the timing works best for your organization.

VergeIQ is ready to deliver value from day one—not only helping you leverage AI to streamline infrastructure management but also supporting a wide range of additional enterprise use cases, as we’ll explore in detail below.

Availability Timeline

VergeIQ will begin preview demonstrations throughout June 2025. The Early Access Program is scheduled to open in July 2025, with General Availability set for August 2025. Existing VergeOS customers will seamlessly upgrade to receive VergeIQ capabilities as a part of their current infrastructure.

Conclusion: Transform Your Organization with Enterprise AI Today

Introducing VergeIQ as an integrated resource of VergeOS means that private generative AI is no longer a future aspiration—it’s a present-day reality. It meets all the requirements of Enterprise AI, allowing organizations to deploy, securely manage, and immediately benefit from generative AI models directly within their own data centers. VergeIQ provides the control, simplicity, and security enterprises demand, paired with the powerful generative AI capabilities that organizations increasingly require.

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May 27, 2025 by George Crump

The hidden costs of HCI often prevent IT professionals, who are looking to exit VMware, from seriously considering the architecture as a viable alternative. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendors capitalize on this scenario, positioning their solutions as streamlined platforms that seamlessly unify virtualization, compute, storage, and networking. However, this initial promise of simplified infrastructure management frequently masks significant hidden costs and complexities.

The hidden costs of HCI

Initially intended to unify infrastructure components, traditional HCI has failed to deliver true integration. Compute, storage, and networking resources remain operationally separate, requiring distinct layers in the form of virtual machines (VMs) communicating with the hypervisor. Commonly deployed solutions utilize separate VMs for storage management (e.g., Nutanix’s CVM or VMware’s vSAN), distinct networking stacks (Nutanix Flow, VMware NSX), and individual management VMs (Nutanix Prism, VMware vCenter). True operational simplification remains elusive; what began as convergence is merely the virtualization of legacy three-tier architectures.

How VergeOS Solves the Convergence Problem

VergeOS achieves true convergence through its ultraconverged design. By integrating storage, networking, virtualization, and data services directly into a unified operating environment, VergeOS eliminates silos and redundant communication layers. This cohesive design simplifies operations, reducing complexity, administrative overhead, and resource inefficiency.

Dive deeper with our on-demand webinar: “Comparing HCI as VMware Alternatives.”


The Efficiency Problem

The hidden costs of HCI include its inability to deliver meaningful infrastructure efficiency. Despite sharing hardware, HCI components remain distinct entities, each consuming substantial resources. Dedicated storage VMs, management VMs, separate networking stacks, and additional abstraction layers cumulatively drain compute cycles and memory. Application VMs running within these infrastructures consequently suffer degraded performance and higher latency, forcing organizations to compensate with additional hardware investment rather than benefiting from the initially promised efficiency gains.

For instance, a typical I/O operation in an HCI environment begins at the hypervisor level, proceeds through a storage controller (virtualized as a separate VM), traverses network infrastructure, and finally reaches physical storage media. Each extra step consumes CPU resources, adds latency, and reduces performance efficiency. As workloads scale, the cumulative impact of these inefficiencies affects application responsiveness and resource utilization.

Some HCI vendors utilize data locality to mitigate some of these issues; however, this technology further complicates operations and negatively impacts performance during node or drive failure.

The hidden costs of HCI

How VergeOS Solves the Efficiency Problem

VergeOS integrates all services, including storage and networking, directly into its operating system, eliminating performance overhead associated with separate management virtual machines or additional software layers. Its lightweight architecture ensures maximum resource efficiency, optimizing performance and dramatically reducing hardware requirements and infrastructure costs.


The High Cost of HCI Inefficiency

The hidden costs of HCI inefficiencies necessitate significant investment in higher-performance hardware to compensate for architectural shortcomings. IT must procure more powerful servers, increased core counts, expanded memory, and faster networking. Furthermore, licensing models that charge per CPU core or capacity exacerbate costs, forcing organizations into substantial capital expenditures. These license models compel customers to purchase less optimal hardware to contain software licensing costs.

How VergeOS Reduces the Cost of Inefficiency

With a streamlined architecture, VergeOS maximizes hardware resource utilization. Its efficient code base and integrated design enable organizations to achieve optimal performance using commodity or existing hardware, reducing initial capital expenditures and ongoing operational expenses. VergeIO licenses VergeOS per-server without penalties for using high-core-count or high-capacity servers.


The High Cost of HCI Data Availability

HCI solutions employ synchronous mirroring—continuous real-time data duplication across nodes—to protect against hardware failures. Vendors commonly refer to redundancy levels as Replication Factor (RF) or Fault Tolerance Level (“failures to tolerate” or FTT). Nutanix refers to protection from one node failure as Replication Factor 2 (RF2), meaning two copies of data are maintained. VMware terms this configuration Failures to Tolerate of 1 (FTT=1).

To protect from two simultaneous node failures or multiple drive failures across nodes, Nutanix uses Replication Factor 3 (RF3)—three data copies—while VMware uses FTT=2. This triple redundancy greatly increases storage capacity and resource requirements. RF3 requires at least five nodes, becoming prohibitively expensive for smaller deployments. In larger environments, limiting resiliency to two node failures is insufficient, as risk increases with node count.

These requirements force prioritizing specific workloads for enhanced protection (RF3), relegating others to standard availability (RF2). Limited redundancy beyond RF3 leads organizations to increase the cluster count per site, resulting in cluster sprawl, which in turn causes additional administrative complexity, higher costs, and uneven availability guarantees.

To maintain performance during node failures, Nutanix and VMware require reserving a portion of resources on each server equal to the capacity of one full node. In a four-server environment, 25% of each server’s resources are reserved for failover, which substantially reduces the available capacity during regular production operations.

How VergeOS Delivers Cost-Effective Data Availability

VergeOS leverages ioGuardian, a deduplicated third-copy data protection method. This efficiently safeguards against multiple simultaneous hardware failures without excessive storage overhead or node count requirements of traditional RF3 implementations. ioGuardian provides robust availability at an economical cost, without requiring workload prioritization, delivering superior resilience at a lower price and complexity.

No reservation of server resources is required. If a node fails, VergeIO’s ioOptimize technology intelligently and automatically reallocates affected VMs to other nodes based on each VM’s resource demands and available server capacities.


The High Cost of HCI Data Protection

The Practice of Snapshotting

Snapshotting commonly provides additional recovery points beyond the capabilities of backup software. However, snapshot-intensive environments impose severe performance penalties, resulting in increased storage I/O and network resource demands. Frequent snapshots or long-term snapshot retention require complex metadata management, demanding more powerful servers, additional memory, and faster storage media. This results in escalated hardware and licensing costs, especially in per-core or per-capacity licensing models common to HCI.

Snapshot chains or numerous simultaneous snapshots greatly increase complexity, hindering disaster recovery processes. Restoring across heterogeneous hardware or hypervisor environments becomes challenging, restricting operational flexibility.

How VergeOS Simplifies Data Protection

VergeOS utilizes ioClone technology, integrated with its global inline deduplication, to create space-efficient, independent snapshots with minimal metadata overhead. ioClone’s architecture supports near-continuous snapshot execution and indefinite retention without performance degradation, enabling rapid and efficient data protection without the need for costly hardware upgrades or complex snapshot management. The combination of ioGuardian and ioClone also reduces the organization’s dependency on backup, lowering the costs of backup software licensing and backup hardware infrastructure.

The High Cost of HCI Inflexibility

The hidden costs of HCI architectures imposing strict hardware compatibility and homogeneity requirements are significant. Expanding storage or compute resources mandates identical hardware, limiting flexibility and increasing long-term infrastructure costs. Adding nodes of different brands, generations, or capabilities creates additional clusters, which fragment management and reduce efficiency.

How VergeOS Enhances Infrastructure Flexibility

VergeOS supports heterogeneous hardware environments, enabling organizations to integrate diverse hardware configurations into unified, scalable clusters seamlessly. This flexibility reduces costs, simplifies expansion, and maximizes investment longevity, enabling adaptive infrastructure growth without imposed constraints on homogeneity.

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An Example of The Hidden Costs of HCI vs. VergeOS

Consider a three-node infrastructure using traditional Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), where the organization’s goal is to maintain continuous data availability even after two simultaneous node failures. Traditional HCI solutions, such as Nutanix or VMware vSAN, require at least five nodes configured with Replication Factor 3 (RF3), or a Fault Tolerance Level of 2 (FTT=2), ensuring continuous availability despite two node failures. In addition, these solutions require maintaining sufficient free storage capacity at all times to accommodate a complete rebuild in the event of node failures, thereby reserving capacity equivalent to an entire node, which further reduces usable storage space.

Because the customer wants to leverage their existing hardware—a heterogeneous mix of Dell and HPE servers—traditional HCI platforms present immediate compatibility and cost challenges. Traditional HCI requires uniform hardware for seamless operation, which adds complexity and cost.

Cost Analysis for Traditional HCI

Achieving protection from two simultaneous node failures requires:

  • Minimum Node Count: 5 nodes (uniform hardware required).
  • Replication Method: RF3 or FTT=2 (three synchronous copies of all data).
  • Usable Capacity: Reduced to approximately 33% due to triple mirroring overhead.
  • Reserved Free Capacity: Additional storage space equal to one node’s full storage capacity, always kept available to allow immediate rebuilds after failures.

In this scenario, the customer faces:

  • The necessity of purchasing additional uniform hardware due to vendor compatibility guidelines.
  • Higher software licensing costs, typically calculated per CPU core.
  • Significant reserved resources on each node (compute and storage) are allocated exclusively for node failure scenarios.

This dramatically increases capital and operational expenses, requiring significant investment in new hardware and licenses, thereby negating the anticipated HCI savings.

Cost Analysis with VergeOS

In the same scenario, VergeOS offers substantial advantages:

  • Minimum Node Count: 3 nodes (uses existing Dell and HPE hardware).
  • Replication Method: Integrated distributed mirroring combined with VergeOS’s independent, deduplicated third data copy via ioGuardian, which can be installed on any available standby server.
  • Usable Capacity: Approximately 50% (due to two-way mirroring), augmented by ioGuardian’s deduplication efficiency.
  • Reserved Free Capacity: Minimal additional storage capacity needed due to ioGuardian’s efficient data protection strategy, reducing rebuild space requirements compared to traditional RF3 architectures.

With VergeOS, you benefit from:

  • No need for uniform hardware, allowing immediate use of existing Dell and HPE servers.
  • Reduced licensing and hardware costs, as no additional nodes or extensive resource reservations are required.
  • Enhanced data availability beyond traditional two-node failure protection without extensive reserved storage, reducing overhead and complexity.


Summary of Cost Benefits

Traditional HCI requires two additional nodes (totaling five) and mandates uniform hardware, increasing both capital and operational expenses, compounded by large reserved capacity requirements for rebuilding data. VergeOS provides superior resilience, operational continuity, and cost efficiency by leveraging existing heterogeneous hardware and substantially reducing the need for reserved rebuild capacity.

Conclusion

While hyperconverged infrastructure initially promises simplicity, efficiency, and cost savings, underlying architectural limitations quickly surface as substantial hidden costs. Challenges such as insufficient convergence, operational inefficiencies, costly availability and protection schemes, and restrictive infrastructure flexibility erode promised benefits. Organizations should carefully assess these hidden costs when evaluating HCI solutions, prioritizing converged, integrated infrastructures like VergeOS that fundamentally address these critical challenges, enabling efficient, cost-effective, and future-ready IT environments.

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May 19, 2025 by George Crump

Triple mirroring, or Replication Factor 3 (RF3), presents hidden challenges when evaluating VMware alternatives and hyperconverged architectures. Although RF3 enhances data resiliency beyond single drive or node failures, many organizations face unexpected costs, operational complexity, and scalability constraints, which are pronounced in smaller or larger deployments, where resource efficiency and manageability become critical issues. These unexpected triple mirroring challenges force most IT professionals to avoid the technology completely, but with the right design, a triple mirror can provide better availability at a lower cost.

The Basics of Triple Mirroring

Triple mirroring replicates data across three separate nodes or storage devices. This approach ensures data availability even if two nodes, or drives with those nodes, fail simultaneously, providing a higher degree of redundancy and resilience compared to dual replication (RF2). On the surface, this redundancy sounds ideal for critical workloads, but deeper examination reveals several substantial drawbacks.

Costly and Impractical for Small Environments

One major limitation of triple mirroring is its inefficiency in smaller environments. RF3 configurations require a minimum of five nodes to maintain adequate redundancy and quorum, even though the storage and computing demands may not necessitate this level of investment. For small data centers or departmental deployments, this requirement results in a prohibitively high entry cost, as the infrastructure must be oversized to achieve adequate redundancy.

Triple Mirroring requires five nodes

In these scenarios, the high infrastructure cost, coupled with a reduced usable storage capacity—approximately a 66% reduction compared to single-copy storage—can be problematic, as it inflates the total cost of ownership without providing proportional operational value.

Scalability Challenges for Large Deployments

At the opposite end of the spectrum, large-scale deployments find triple mirroring delivers diminishing returns. In environments spanning dozens or more nodes, the risk of multiple simultaneous failures increases. For instance, protecting against dual node failures in a 32-node cluster may prove insufficient, as larger clusters inherently present greater statistical risks. Consequently, the likelihood of multiple concurrent failures can quickly exceed what RF3 is designed to handle. Moreover, even if an organization was willing to implement a higher redundancy level, such as “quad-mirroring,” available solutions do not offer this capability.

As environments scale, the inefficiency of triple mirroring grows exponentially. It requires a substantial upfront investment in storage and computing capacity to maintain adequate redundancy across all nodes. These demands escalate infrastructure complexity, increasing management overhead and resource consumption.

The Hidden Costs of Triple Mirroring

Triple mirroring introduces hidden long-term costs that extend beyond maintaining a third copy of data. First, the third data copy requires deployment on identical, production-class servers and storage media, as triple mirroring technologies cannot dedicate specific nodes solely for data storage without also utilizing them for compute tasks.

Secondly, the significant expense associated with triple mirroring forces IT teams into complex trade-offs, as they manage multiple storage volumes with varying resiliency levels, with some set at RF2 and others at RF3. This dual-resiliency model increases complexity and compels IT to prioritize specific applications, granting them higher availability while relegating less critical applications to lower protection levels. Additionally, many solutions employing RF3 lack the flexibility to revert seamlessly from RF3 to RF2 or upgrade from RF2 to RF3 without requiring a complete recovery of VM data from backup, which adds further operational burdens, limits flexibility, and increases the risk of downtime.

A More Efficient Alternative with VergeIO ioGuardian

A far more efficient and powerful solution is VergeIO’s ioGuardian technology, which delivers the resiliency advantages of triple mirroring without the associated overhead and complexity. ioGuardian maintains an independent, deduplicated third copy of data on a single, cost-effective storage server, reducing storage overhead and increasing resiliency beyond two node failures.

Triple mirroring on a secondary server that extends beyond the capabilities of a triple mirror.

For smaller environments, ioGuardian offers an optimal approach by requiring only one additional, affordable storage server, eliminating the need for multiple fully provisioned nodes. In larger environments, ioGuardian provides extensive protection against numerous simultaneous node failures by delivering a robust, real-time, and accessible backup repository that is independent of the primary operational infrastructure. With ioGuardian, organizations no longer need to selectively allocate protection levels, ensuring comprehensive availability for all applications.

Simplified Management and Lower Costs with ioGuardian

VergeIO’s ioGuardian simplifies infrastructure management, reduces complexity, and lowers costs. Its dedicated storage server approach minimizes resource consumption, as the server focuses solely on secure data storage and recovery, rather than hosting active virtual workloads. Furthermore, ioGuardian’s global inline deduplication dramatically reduces storage capacity requirements, directly decreasing both capital and operational expenses.

How ioGuardian Works

By decoupling redundancy from operational nodes and centralizing it into ioGuardian’s dedicated backup repository, organizations achieve superior data resiliency. In scenarios involving multiple simultaneous node or drive failures—situations that even exceed the protections provided by RF3—ioGuardian immediately ensures continuous data availability through real-time redirection of requests. When production nodes detect missing or unavailable data blocks due to hardware failures, VergeOS transparently redirects these requests to redundant data blocks stored within the independent ioGuardian server, enabling uninterrupted application performance and seamless user access.

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Critically, ioGuardian maintains operational efficiency by deferring data migration back into primary production nodes until failed drives or nodes are physically replaced or explicitly marked for replacement. When the drives are replaced, ioGuardian automatically repopulates data onto the repaired or newly replaced hardware, minimizing unnecessary data movement and preserving the performance of the production infrastructure.

Additionally, ioGuardian serves as a comprehensive traditional backup solution. It enables organizations to restore virtual machines, individual files, or specific data versions directly from their repository when needed, providing reliable access to historical data snapshots. This capability simplifies recovery processes following data corruption events, accidental deletions, or ransomware attacks, thereby enhancing overall data integrity and reducing costs further.

Conclusion: Rethinking Triple Mirroring with VergeIO

While triple mirroring initially appears straightforward for ensuring data availability and redundancy, its hidden complexities, high costs, and scalability limitations often overshadow its intended benefits. Modern IT infrastructures demand more flexible, efficient, and scalable redundancy solutions. VergeIO’s ioGuardian offers organizations—from small departmental setups to large enterprise clusters—a simplified, robust, and cost-effective approach to data protection, surpassing traditional triple-mirroring strategies. Data redundancy is one aspect of a VMware Alternative’s capabilities that IT should consider. They should look for solutions that encompass all aspects of data availability as part of their selection process.

To explore these advantages further, join our upcoming live webinar, Comparing HCI Architecture.

Filed Under: Protection Tagged With: Alternative, HCI, VMware

May 12, 2025 by George Crump

Comparing VMware Alternative Storage

As part of a VMware exit, comparing the VMware alternative storage capabilities is as important as selecting an alternative hypervisor for the organization’s future infrastructure software. Organizations typically examine Nutanix’s Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) architecture against VergeIO’s integrated VergeFS storage within VergeOS. Although both approaches virtualize SAN functionality onto the same servers, creating a virtual SAN (vSAN), the two designs differ. These differences impact resource utilization, operational complexity, stability, and costs.

Understanding vSAN Resource Efficiency

Nutanix employs a storage-as-a-VM architecture using a dedicated CVM running on each node. This CVM consumes substantial resources—between 16GB and 32GB of RAM or more, alongside multiple virtual CPUs (up to 22 vCPUs per node). This significant resource footprint reduces available capacity for production workloads, driving higher infrastructure costs and decreasing resource efficiency, particularly in smaller environments.

VergeIO integrates storage directly into VergeOS via its VergeFS file system, eliminating the need for dedicated controller VMs. This integration ensures more node resources remain available for production workloads, improving resource efficiency without requiring additional hardware investments.

Sizing and Stability of vSAN Alternatives

Sizing complexities are inherent in Nutanix’s CVM-based model. Determining the ideal CVM size is critical yet challenging. Undersized CVMs lead to bottlenecks or instability, while oversized CVMs consume unnecessary resources. Nutanix users sometimes experience stability issues such as random CVM reboots, leading to a reactive response rather than root-cause analysis from support teams.

VergeIO’s integrated storage approach within the OS kernel eliminates these sizing complexities, providing predictable and stable performance without the risk of bottlenecks or instability. This inherent stability reduces operational overhead, making VergeIO a reliable VMware alternative with minimal administrative intervention.

Understanding vSAN: Performance

Comparing VMware Alternative Storage

When under load or insufficiently resourced, Nutanix’s CVMs negatively impact VM performance on the same node, leading to broader performance degradation across the cluster. VergeIO’s integrated approach ensures stable and consistent resource utilization, avoiding disruptions and translating directly into improved cluster reliability and responsiveness.

VergeIO consistently publishes detailed performance benchmarks, demonstrating VergeOS’s real-world capabilities. Nutanix, in contrast, has provided minimal transparency regarding vSAN performance. While no benchmark perfectly represents every customer scenario, VergeIO’s results offer valuable insights.

Recent VergeOS performance benchmarks show impressive outcomes, including over 1.5 million read IOPS, 23 GB/s throughput on a 25 GB/s network, and realistic 64k block sizes at less than one penny per IOPS. Independent testing by StorageReview demonstrated VergeOS handling 1,000 virtual desktops booting in 71 seconds. These benchmarks substantiate VergeIO’s superior performance and transparency claims compared to Nutanix.

Management and Troubleshooting a VMware Alternative

Nutanix’s separate CVM introduces additional management complexity, requiring administrators to monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot an extra software layer. Issues such as CVM reboots or resource contention complicate troubleshooting, increasing operational burdens.

By removing the separate CVM layer, VergeOS simplifies operations. Administrators gain straightforward monitoring, simplified diagnostics, and faster issue resolution, all integrated transparently within VergeOS.

Understanding vSAN Controller Resiliency

A key consideration when comparing the VMware alternative storage capabilities is how the solution handles resiliency. Nutanix promotes its distributed “leader” CVM architecture, allowing any node to assume cluster leadership. However, this approach offers limited practical advantage, as additional leader nodes beyond simultaneous node failure tolerance are redundant. Nutanix clusters configured with RF3 can survive two simultaneous node failures, reducing the practical value of additional leaders.

VergeIO’s ioGuardian provides redundancy and resilience beyond traditional N+2 redundancy. While conventional three-way mirroring (N+2) continuously replicates data across three nodes, ioGuardian enhances protection by maintaining an independent, deduplicated third copy, stored separately from the primary mirrored dataset. This highly available backup replaces traditional backups and becomes integral to your continuous availability strategy.

IoGuardian seamlessly and transparently serves data back to the production environment in real time during multi-node or multi-drive failures, even exceeding two nodes. Affected virtual machines instantly retrieve the necessary data from the ioGuardian storage, eliminating downtime and ensuring uninterrupted operations without manual intervention or complex recovery workflows.

Combining immediate real-time data availability, reduced infrastructure overhead, and simplified management, ioGuardian substantially surpasses the protection and operational simplicity achievable with standard N+2 redundancy approaches.

How a vSAN Impacts TCO

Nutanix’s CVMs impact total cost of ownership (TCO) beyond licensing. They require substantial resources, necessitating larger hardware configurations, increasing capital expenditures, and increasing ongoing licensing expenses.

In contrast, VergeIO’s integrated VergeFS reduces the software footprint, simplifies licensing with straightforward per-server pricing, and optimizes existing or commodity hardware. This approach considerably lowers infrastructure costs, positioning VergeIO as a cost-effective VMware alternative storage solution.

Summary of VergeOS Advantages

Comparing VMware alternative storage capabilities reveals that VergeIO’s integration of VergeFS into VergeOS provides significant practical advantages over Nutanix’s CVM-based storage model. It maximizes resource efficiency, ensures consistent and reliable performance, simplifies management, and reduces infrastructure and licensing costs. These combined advantages position VergeIO as an attractive VMware alternative storage solution, ideal for organizations seeking efficiency, stability, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness.

To further explore VMware alternative data availability and see these considerations in action, join our upcoming VergeIO webinar. Our experts will provide an in-depth comparison of hyperconverged and ultraconverged architectures, highlighting performance benchmarks, operational simplicity, and cost-efficiency. Register now to ensure your infrastructure decisions align with your organization’s strategic priorities.

Our latest white paper, “HCI Data Availability Analysis,” delves into the crucial issue of maintaining availability in Hyperconverged and Ultraconverged architectures by comparing how Nutanix and VergeIO ensure data access during hardware failures.

Filed Under: HCI Tagged With: Hyperconverged, Storage, UCI

May 1, 2025 by George Crump

Improving IT operational performance should be a key criterion when selecting a VMware alternative. Yes, lowering licensing fees and improving hardware performance will factor into the decision. Still, the project’s long-term success will depend on whether the new infrastructure software helps raise the IT operational bar so IT can be significantly more responsive and efficient after the switch.

Improving IT operational performance

In today’s highly competitive IT landscape, internal IT teams are increasingly benchmarked against Managed Service Providers (MSPs). MSPs, in turn, face comparisons against Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and CSPs against hyperscale cloud providers. This competitive environment highlights operational performance as the crucial differentiator. Infrastructure software’s effectiveness and IT skills determine an organization’s ability to deliver superior operational outcomes and gain a competitive edge.

Shifting from Raw Performance to Operational Efficiency

Raw performance once dominated IT discussions, driving infrastructure investments to achieve incremental gains. However, as processing power has become plentiful and high-speed NVMe flash storage has become more cost-effective, businesses face diminishing returns on investment from raw hardware upgrades alone. The real competitive differentiator now lies in operational capabilities and efficient utilization of the hardware investment enabled by choosing the right infrastructure software:

  • Enhanced Observability: The ability to proactively monitor and manage infrastructure health in real-time.
  • Rapid Deployment: Quickly and reliably deploying new workloads or scaling into new locations.
  • Extended Hardware Lifecycles: Safely and reliably leveraging existing hardware resources over a longer period, aiming for hardware lifespans of up to a decade.

Why Operational Performance Matters

Improving IT operational performance directly impacts agility, reliability, and cost efficiency. Organizations excelling in these areas will outperform competitors, reduce unnecessary costs, and respond swiftly to market demands. Rather than merely upgrading hardware, IT departments must now prioritize improving operational workflows and infrastructure visibility and selecting infrastructure software that aligns with these strategic goals.

Raising the Operational Efficiency Bar

VergeOS is designed to help organizations exceed operational performance expectations, offering robust capabilities beyond those found in conventional solutions like VMware. Here’s how VergeOS achieves this:

Improving IT operational performance

Unmatched Observability

Through its ioMetrics integration, VergeOS provides comprehensive, real-time infrastructure monitoring. IT teams leverage tools like Prometheus and Grafana to gain detailed visibility into system performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact business operations.

Accelerated Workload Deployment

Improving IT operational performance can also be achieved through seamless integration with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platforms like Terraform. With its native Terraform provider, VergeOS enables rapid and predictable deployment of new workloads or locations. Organizations can automate infrastructure deployment and configuration, significantly reducing manual errors and operational overhead.

Raising the Operational Efficiency of Hardware

Improving IT operational performance includes enhancing the efficiency of the IT hardware assets. You are being asked to do more with less, so should your hardware. VergeOS ensures hardware resources are utilized to their full potential without compromising critical capabilities. It supports many virtual machines per node and maximizes storage capacity per node, enabling IT teams to leverage their infrastructure fully. Additionally, VergeOS provides unmatched node flexibility, incorporating compute-only, GPU-only, or storage-only nodes, seamlessly integrating these diverse resources into a cohesive, holistic group. This level of flexibility and efficiency enables organizations to tailor their infrastructure precisely to their operational needs, optimizing resource allocation and minimizing waste.

Improving IT operational performance

Extending Hardware Life

Unlike traditional hypervisor environments, VergeOS’s architecture efficiently utilizes hardware resources, extending its functional lifespan. By maximizing hardware usage in a safe, resilient manner, organizations can confidently stretch hardware cycles closer to a decade, substantially improving ROI.

Operational Efficiency Requires Quality Technical Support

A critical component of operational performance is the quality of technical support that the VMware alternative vendor provides. No matter how robust the infrastructure software is, exceptional support is essential when issues arise. VergeIO’s technical support consistently receives high praise from customers:

“The responsiveness and knowledge of VergeIO’s support team are second to none. They quickly resolve any issues, minimizing downtime and maintaining our operational continuity.” — Eric Miller, Manager of Information Services, Lancaster Central School District

“We genuinely feel like VergeIO’s support team is an extension of our own IT department. Their proactive approach has significantly improved our infrastructure reliability.” — Kelley Allen, CEO of CCSI

Don’t take our word for it—explore detailed experiences and case studies by visiting our case studies page.

When Raw Performance Matters

While improving IT operational performance has become the critical differentiator in most scenarios, there are specific situations where raw performance remains essential. In these cases, it is crucial to ensure your infrastructure software fully extracts the potential from your hardware, something VergeOS has consistently demonstrated leadership in achieving, yet our competitors have been suspiciously quiet about.

VergeOS has delivered impressive performance benchmarks, including:

  • Launching 1,000 virtual machines in just 70 seconds.
  • Achieving over 1 million IOPS with 23 GB/s throughput using real-world workloads.
  • Maintaining sub-millisecond latency for critical applications, even under intense workloads.

As organizations begin deploying private AI workloads, raw performance and near-bare-metal efficiency will undoubtedly rise in importance. However, even in AI-centric deployments, improving IT operational performance by ensuring ease of deployment, robust observability, and hardware lifecycle optimization will continue to serve as the critical success criterion.

Moving Beyond VMware

While VMware remains a widely used hypervisor platform, it often lacks the robust operational capabilities now demanded by modern IT teams. VergeOS provides a compelling VMware alternative, enhancing operational agility, infrastructure observability, hardware longevity, and ensuring the infrastructure software chosen fully supports these strategic priorities.

For organizations evaluating their hypervisor strategy, it’s essential to consider these operational performance metrics carefully. Storage Switzerland recently highlighted crucial factors in their Critical Capabilities for Service Providers Evaluating VMware Alternatives, reinforcing the need for comprehensive operational excellence rather than mere cost reductions.

See VergeOS Operational Performance in Action

Interested in seeing how improving IT operational performance is made possible with VergeOS? Explore our on-demand demonstration to understand how VergeOS practically transforms IT operational performance. This session showcases VergeOS’s automation and observability capabilities, providing tangible insights into how your organization can exceed traditional operational benchmarks.

Register for the on-demand demo here.

Filed Under: Virtualization Tagged With: IT infrastructure

April 22, 2025 by George Crump

Infrastructure strategies for service providers are unique depending on whether they are Managed Service Providers (MSPs) or Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Each organization type faces unique challenges in meeting evolving customer needs. Though their business models and approaches differ, MSPs and CSPs increasingly need solutions that streamline operational complexity, enable scalability, and reduce infrastructure costs.

VergeIO’s unified virtualization platform, VergeOS, addresses these challenges by consolidating hypervisor, storage, and networking into a single software-defined environment. However, MSPs and CSPs often leverage VergeOS fundamentally differently, reflecting the distinctions in their business approaches, infrastructure management, and customer engagement models.

Infrastructure strategies for Managed Service Providers

Managed Service Providers traditionally deliver IT support services across customer-owned, on-premises environments. Their value lies in managing and optimizing hardware and software deployed within client facilities, advising on infrastructure decisions, and ensuring continuous uptime and reliability.

With VergeOS, MSPs can significantly streamline these operations. VergeOS allows MSPs to deploy a unified virtualization and storage environment directly onto their customers’ existing hardware. One of the key infrastructure strategies for service providers is remote management of on-premises customers. Rather than juggling multiple vendors and tools, MSPs can centrally manage these customer installations via VergeIO’s Site Manager dashboard. This centralized management drastically reduces complexity and enhances operational efficiency by allowing remote monitoring, updates, and troubleshooting across multiple customer environments from one interface.

Infrastructure Strategies for Service Providers

Additionally, VergeOS provides native integrated data protection, snapshotting, and replication capabilities. MSPs can effortlessly implement disaster recovery solutions by replicating customer workloads to MSP-owned infrastructure, transforming traditional reactive support models into proactive managed services. With VergeOS’s rapid and seamless migration tools, MSPs can efficiently onboard new clients or transition existing customers away from traditional virtualization platforms like VMware or Hyper-V, ensuring minimal downtime and disruption during the cutover process.

VergeOS provides MSPs with a path toward growth, allowing them to incrementally expand their services from simple infrastructure management to more advanced offerings like Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) and hybrid cloud hosting.

Infrastructure strategies for Cloud Service Providers

Cloud Service Providers, by contrast, typically host customer environments in their entirety within CSP-owned data centers. Infrastructure strategies for service providers like these require robust multi-tenancy capabilities to isolate customer environments, provide elastic scalability, and efficiently manage shared hardware resources. VergeOS addresses these challenges by delivering advanced Virtual Data Center (VDC) functionality to support complex multi-tenant architectures.

Infrastructure Strategies for Service Providers

With VergeOS, CSPs can provide fully isolated virtual data centers for each customer, complete with dedicated computing, storage, and networking resources. This architecture ensures that performance is predictable and secure, eliminating concerns around resource contention (“noisy neighbor” problems). Furthermore, CSPs can enable nested multi-tenancy, allowing their customers to subdivide their environments for departments, individual workloads, or even end-user groups. This capability makes VergeOS particularly appealing for CSPs serving large enterprises, government agencies, or software vendors needing flexible tenant management.

CSPs also benefit from VergeOS’s built-in high-availability features, such as distributed mirroring and automated self-healing. These features provide resilient infrastructure without expensive external SANs or complex clustering solutions, allowing CSPs to confidently deliver robust SLAs for critical workloads.

Moreover, CSPs can easily provision and manage resources such as CPUs and GPUs on demand, allowing customers to run performance-intensive applications, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high-performance computing (HPC), and analytics workloads directly within their hosted infrastructure. This flexibility positions CSPs to capitalize on emerging high-margin markets.

Comparing VergeIO Infrastructure Strategies for Service Providers

While MSPs and CSPs utilize VergeOS’s robust feature set differently, each finds unique advantages suited to their operational models. The table below summarizes these distinctions clearly:

Technical FeatureMSP ImplementationCSP Implementation
Deployment ModelCustomer-owned on-premises hardware managed remotelyCSP-owned infrastructure fully hosted
Management ModelCentralized management via Site ManagerMulti-tenant management with dedicated VDCs
Data Protection & DRRemote snapshots and DR replication to MSP datacenterIntegrated multi-tenant DRaaS, snapshot isolation, and Replication between CSP data centers.
Resource AllocationFixed resource sizing per customer siteElastic resource pooling across tenants
Multi-Tenancy CapabilityModerate, customer-level isolationAdvanced, nested multi-tenancy for complex tenant scenarios
GPU & AI WorkloadsLimited due to on-prem constraintsScalable GPU resource sharing and management
Operational ComplexitySimplified, standardized deploymentsCentralized control with advanced multi-tenancy management

Customer Example: Livewire is a CSP for MSPs

For MSPs looking to move beyond offering solely on-premises services, VergeOS customer Livewire is a cloud service provider dedicated to MSPs, enabling them to take the next step. Livewire offers a comprehensive private cloud solution to maximize profitability and remove operational friction. For Livewire, VergeOS provided the critical capabilities they needed in a VMware alternative.

Infrastructure Strategies for Service Providers

Livewire’s adoption of VergeOS allowed them to provide their MSP customers an alternative to VMware to reduce operational complexity, lower licensing costs, and drastically improve the flexibility of services offered to their end-customers. Read Livewire’s Press Release for more details.

One Platform, Two Pathways for Growth

The strength of VergeOS lies in its flexibility. MSPs benefit by streamlining existing operations, improving service delivery efficiency, and gradually expanding their service offerings. CSPs, meanwhile, leverage VergeOS to deliver advanced, scalable multi-tenant clouds capable of hosting diverse, resource-intensive workloads. Both provider types realize significant cost savings, operational simplification, and service innovation with VergeOS.

MSPs can progressively transition toward offering CSP-like services, using VergeOS as a stable foundation to support incremental growth. Meanwhile, CSPs can confidently expand their multi-tenant capabilities, differentiating themselves in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

See VergeOS for MSPs and CSPs in Action

To see VergeOS performance in action and learn how it supports both MSP and CSP use cases, we invite you to watch our latest ioMetrics webinar—now available on demand. The demo-only session shows how VergeOS delivers observability and automation from a single platform, making it ideal for multi-tenant environments, DRaaS, and AI workloads.

The Bottom Line

VergeOS delivers substantial benefits for both MSPs and CSPs—streamlining management, enhancing scalability, reducing complexity, and providing a path to innovative service offerings. Whether your goal is simplifying managed IT services or building large-scale cloud infrastructure, VergeOS delivers the technology, tools, and flexibility to achieve it.

Ready to explore how VergeOS can transform your MSP or CSP operations?
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