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How to Use Hard Drive Tiering to Fight Data Center Inflation

Hard drive tiering is back. See how VergeOS lets you pick each drive’s tier, move it live, and put the long tail on $56/TB disk instead of $706/TB flash.

Hard drive tiering: one terabyte on NVMe flash costs $706 against $56 on hard drives, and across a 150 TB estate that is $105,900 against $8,400

Leave No VM Behind

A complete VMware migration includes clustered SQL Server. VergeOS 26.2 shortens cutover and protects critical workloads inside isolated VDCs.

Can HCI Run a Database Application on Hard Disk Drives?

Can HCI run a database on hard disk drives? One live tier change moved a SQL Server data drive to HDD and cut the VM’s storage media cost in half.

Can HCI Run a Database Application on Hard Disk Drives? SQL Server VM drives by I/O pattern, with OS, log and tempdb on NVMe and data files and backups on hard disk drives

Could a 24 TB Hard Drive Replace a $10,000 SSD?

A 24 TB hard drive costs about $56 per TB, and a 15.36 TB SSD costs over $700. See how VergeOS puts hard drives back to work inside HCI clusters.

Refurbished Hardware Made Resilient

Refurbished hardware funds your VMware exit. VergeOS keeps it running through drive and server failures with RF2, RF3, and ioGuardian.

Refurbished hardware made resilient: VergeIO rack servers protected by VergeOS resiliency for a VMware exit

Storage Tiering is Not the Problem. Losing Control of It Is.

Auto-tiering guesses which data is hot, and the guess costs money in both directions: flash held too long, or flash withheld too late. VergeOS puts storage tiering control back with the team running the workload, moving live VMs between tiers instantly, shrinking what the next flash refresh has to buy.