One of the most notable improvements is that the scale of the hyper-converged infrastructure appliances are now doubled: from beyond the initial four appliances in a cluster and 16 nodes overall to eight appliances in a cluster and 32 nodes overall.

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it_user234723

Senior Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

May 28, 2015

Personally I’m optimistic and positive about EVO:RAIL.

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it_user186357

Solutions Architect with 51-200 employees

May 10, 2015

My view on EVO:RAIL has always been that it is a nice piece of technology, but it is way too expensive with a deeply flawed licensing model.

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it_user186357

Solutions Architect with 51-200 employees

May 10, 2015

I really like what VMware is doing with their Software-Defined Data Centre strategy – the idea of allowing customers to use commoditised low cost compute, storage and networking hardware for their infrastructure has got to be a good thing – we are on the verge of hopefully making IT both much simpler and cheaper.

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it_user234735

Technology Consultant, ASEAN at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 6, 2015

Using the VSA is allowing vendors to offer deduplication, compression, backup and replication among other services.

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VMware EVO:RAIL [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user236505

IT Director with 51-200 employees

Oct 10, 2015

The only limit that I see is potentially the cost: the vSphere edition will be the Enterprise Plus one, where the cost is not so much SMB friendly!

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it_user315723

Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 21, 2015

They are already addressing this, but it could be better in terms of licensing and overall costs.

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it_user320949

Info Sys Spl Prgmng - IS at New York Presbyterian Hospital

Sep 30, 2015

It wasn’t scalable enough for our needs – could be more scalable to add more VM clusters.

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it_user236505

IT Director with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

But note that EVO:RAIL remain still with vSphere 5.5… and not on vSphere 6.0!

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it_user234723

Senior Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

May 28, 2015

Flexibility is probably the biggest constraint for customers – it’s a ‘fixed’ appliance and there’s limited scope for change.

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it_user186357

Solutions Architect with 51-200 employees

May 10, 2015

Even though VMware had a great chance to really make things so much better they have wasted the opportunity – amazingly they are still forcing you to use Enterprise Plus whereas Essentials Plus would be more appropriate in most cases.

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it_user186357

Solutions Architect with 51-200 employees

May 10, 2015

So for me EVO:RAIL just does not make sense, not from a technical point of view, but commercially.

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it_user234735

Technology Consultant, ASEAN at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 6, 2015

VMware EVO:RAIL only support VMware while Nutanix support KVM or Hyper-V over VMware.

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