vSAN ESA runs only on certified NVMe, deduplicates after the write, and charges per VM for remote replication. VergeFS uses NVMe, SAS, SATA, QLC and hard drives, deduplicates inline, and replicates whole virtual data centers at no extra cost. Here is how the two compare before your VCF 9 decision.
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.
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.
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 funds your VMware exit. VergeOS keeps it running through drive and server failures with RF2, RF3, and ioGuardian.
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.
