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.
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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.
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.
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.
Storage Tiering Without the Capacity Tax
Storage tiering was never an array feature. It was a placement decision that lived where the intelligence sat. Lab measurements show a VergeOS tier change acknowledged in 1.3 seconds with the VM still running, and per-node licensing that decides who captures the data reduction: the customer or the vendor’s meter.
