Running vSAN? Your VMware Exit Is a Storage Decision
Most exit plans price a new hypervisor. Join us to see what it takes to move the storage layer too, and how to do it on the servers you already own.
Three exit paths, compared in the detail architects need
vSAN ships as part of the VMware stack, so leaving VMware also means leaving the storage layer that holds every production VM. The hypervisor is the easy part. George frames the tradeoffs from his years covering storage as an industry analyst, and Dave walks through how the migration works in practice.
Why vSAN makes the exit harder
SAN customers swap a hypervisor and keep their array. vSAN customers turn a hypervisor migration into a storage migration that few exit plans priced.
Another vendor’s HCI stack
What it costs to rebuild on a different HCI platform, and the new form of lock-in that comes with it.
Back to the external SAN
Returning to the array you spent years retiring, along with the fabric, hardware and licensing it adds back.
An infrastructure operating system
Compute, storage and networking in a single code base, running on the servers already in your data center.
Moving vSAN data off VMware
How the data moves, which servers stay in production, and how to avoid a second refresh cycle a year after the first.
The migration from Dave’s lab
Dave closes with a demonstration of the migration process, followed by your questions in the live chat.
Built for teams running vSAN today
This session is for infrastructure architects, IT managers, storage administrators and systems engineers who run production workloads on vSAN and face a VMware renewal decision. If your exit plan covers the hypervisor and stops there, you will leave with a clear picture of what each path costs in licensing, hardware and migration effort.
The third path off vSAN
VergeOS is an infrastructure operating system that runs compute, storage and networking in a single code base. Storage installs with the operating system, so there are no infrastructure VMs to build before the first workload runs. Global inline deduplication and replication are part of the core license.
VergeOS supports almost any server built in the last ten years and works with NVMe, SAS and SATA SSDs, QLC SSDs and hard drives. That lets vSAN customers move workloads onto the servers they already own and skip the refresh that other exit paths force.
An analyst view and a lab demonstration
George Crump founded Storage Switzerland and spent years covering the storage industry as an analyst. He brings that background to the comparison of HCI, external SAN and infrastructure operating system paths. Dave Vincent is a Technical Solutions Strategist at VergeIO who works with IT teams planning their VMware exits, and he closes the session with the migration process running in his lab.
The session airs on Truth in IT, hosted by David Littman.