I am dedicated to Cisco and work with multiple products as a consultant from one of the managed service providers. Mostly it is compute, so I take care of this part only. The performance issues concern site and IOPS requirements, in the case of PCI cards to the VMs. Sometimes expected IOPS are not there, and storage IOPS are not present. It is not very frequent, but sometimes we encounter disk failure issues with the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, and it generally takes some time to change the disks. My job is to be a solution architect, proposing and building items. It is more about designing solutions and implementation, not too much in daily operations and troubleshooting. I deal with multiple environments. Sometimes we see 20 plus nodes around 32 or even more. Sometimes it is a small cluster, two node cluster, or three node cluster. I would say all kinds of environments based on customer needs. Regarding existing environments and third-party solutions for backup and monitoring, primarily we do the installation of the VMware platform, VMware vSphere ESXi. VMware has one of the largest ecosystems with on-premises or private cloud providers. Integration perspectives require some API-based work. It is a starting story for AI, but we are taking some use cases leveraging the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes along with GPU cards from NVIDIA. We are exploring other providers such as AMD, and Intel is also doing enhancements based on AI. We are recommending customers leverage nodes which have AI-supported applications using Dell vSAN Ready Nodes that support AI-based workload primarily. The VMware container technology integration allows VMware customers to enable AI-based applications, but that is with the latest generation only, not with older ones.
Senior Engineering Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-12-03T09:33:47Z
Dec 3, 2024
The primary use case of vSAN ReadyNodes is for block storage and general-purpose compute hosting in a virtualized environment. It is beneficial for companies that want to run a private cloud.
Our customers use this solution for virtualization. It's suited to small and medium sized organizations. We have a partnership with Dell and I'm a senior technical consultant.
We provide HCI solutions for customers. Each customer has their own benefits about HCI. For example, I installed the HCI as an administrator for the government. I use the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes for file sharing. I enabled the feature and integrated it with an external disk using iSCSI.
System Administrator for virtual platforms at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2022-08-11T13:44:00Z
Aug 11, 2022
We run the solution on VxRail and use nodes to create storage space for replication. Our main servers are critical and include DNS, active directories, domains, and mail. The vSAN Ready Cluster Node using Veeam accommodates replication every few hours so we always have a copy of the latest virtual server delivered from the VxRail to the data recovery cluster.
Sr. Customer Support Engineer at Magnamious Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Real User
2022-05-13T14:56:29Z
May 13, 2022
We primarily use the solution for pharma, as they are using it for different kinds of things like their OTIP network. There are some cases in the hotel industry and mining as well. Nowadays most of the clients are going from traditional architecture to vSAN, or any other hyper-converged option
Technical Solutions Architect at Denali Advanced Integration
Vendor
2021-02-04T07:52:55Z
Feb 4, 2021
I am a data center solutions architect that specifies the solution and then implements it for our customers. 90% of the time, it is deployed on their local data center and their objective is to go to the cloud. This is what they will do once their applications are brought up to speed.
Pre-sales Consultant Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
2020-07-16T06:21:13Z
Jul 16, 2020
The current customer for this solution is a service provider currently using private cloud and hoping to become a public cloud provider later on. vSAN starts its customers with private cloud to give them a taste of the technology. Later on they move to implementing public cloud. I'm a pre-sales consultant and we're a partner of Dell.
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I am dedicated to Cisco and work with multiple products as a consultant from one of the managed service providers. Mostly it is compute, so I take care of this part only. The performance issues concern site and IOPS requirements, in the case of PCI cards to the VMs. Sometimes expected IOPS are not there, and storage IOPS are not present. It is not very frequent, but sometimes we encounter disk failure issues with the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, and it generally takes some time to change the disks. My job is to be a solution architect, proposing and building items. It is more about designing solutions and implementation, not too much in daily operations and troubleshooting. I deal with multiple environments. Sometimes we see 20 plus nodes around 32 or even more. Sometimes it is a small cluster, two node cluster, or three node cluster. I would say all kinds of environments based on customer needs. Regarding existing environments and third-party solutions for backup and monitoring, primarily we do the installation of the VMware platform, VMware vSphere ESXi. VMware has one of the largest ecosystems with on-premises or private cloud providers. Integration perspectives require some API-based work. It is a starting story for AI, but we are taking some use cases leveraging the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes along with GPU cards from NVIDIA. We are exploring other providers such as AMD, and Intel is also doing enhancements based on AI. We are recommending customers leverage nodes which have AI-supported applications using Dell vSAN Ready Nodes that support AI-based workload primarily. The VMware container technology integration allows VMware customers to enable AI-based applications, but that is with the latest generation only, not with older ones.
The primary use case of vSAN ReadyNodes is for block storage and general-purpose compute hosting in a virtualized environment. It is beneficial for companies that want to run a private cloud.
We use Dell vSAN Ready Nodes for our insurance systems and employee systems, to host everything in one environment.
I have been using the product for a couple of years.
I use the solution to handle corporate use cases since some web-based applications run on it.
My customers use the product for server virtualization and as a virtual desktop.
Our customers use it to create the cluster. We use it for VMware; it's certified.
Our customers use this solution for virtualization. It's suited to small and medium sized organizations. We have a partnership with Dell and I'm a senior technical consultant.
We provide HCI solutions for customers. Each customer has their own benefits about HCI. For example, I installed the HCI as an administrator for the government. I use the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes for file sharing. I enabled the feature and integrated it with an external disk using iSCSI.
We run the solution on VxRail and use nodes to create storage space for replication. Our main servers are critical and include DNS, active directories, domains, and mail. The vSAN Ready Cluster Node using Veeam accommodates replication every few hours so we always have a copy of the latest virtual server delivered from the VxRail to the data recovery cluster.
We primarily use the solution for pharma, as they are using it for different kinds of things like their OTIP network. There are some cases in the hotel industry and mining as well. Nowadays most of the clients are going from traditional architecture to vSAN, or any other hyper-converged option
We use Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes in different types of workloads.
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is used for managing hyper-converged infrastructure.
I am a data center solutions architect that specifies the solution and then implements it for our customers. 90% of the time, it is deployed on their local data center and their objective is to go to the cloud. This is what they will do once their applications are brought up to speed.
The current customer for this solution is a service provider currently using private cloud and hoping to become a public cloud provider later on. vSAN starts its customers with private cloud to give them a taste of the technology. Later on they move to implementing public cloud. I'm a pre-sales consultant and we're a partner of Dell.