VMware doubles node count for EVO:RAIL hyperconvergenceware

VMware has released a new version 1.2 of its EVO:RAIL software that turns servers from third parties into hyperconverged screamers. The headline change is a doubling in scale. Version 1.0 of EVO:RAIL could handle four appliances in a cluster and 16 nodes overall. That's now eight appliances in a cluster and 32 nodes overall. …

[Mark Burgess]

VMware changes EVO:RAIL licensing but still gets it all wrong

Hi

I would be interested to know if anyone has anything positive to say about EVO:RAIL, not technically but commercially - it just looks like a solution that is very poor value for money that VMware will continue to tweak (the commercials) until eventually customers see value in. More thoughts at http://blog.snsltd.co.uk/vmware-changes-evorail-licensing-but-still-gets-it-all-wrong/

Regards

Mark

[thegreatsatan]

non-starter compared to mature solutions

still have yet to see an EVO system at a customer site anywhere. HP wants a stupid amount of money fort their system with zero value add. HDS hasn't released theirs in the wild yet. Dell pushes the far more flexible and profitable Nutanix offering. The other bottom barrel players have crap supportability and no sales teams capable of articulating the value.

Those are just the OEM issues. EVO doesn't integrate into existing VMW environments, its an island of resources. Who wants that? SimpliVity and Nutanix offer services on top of the base HC delivery vehicle, and they tend to be cheaper solutions when compared to EVO, far more feature rich, and far more flexible (multi-hypervisor support). So again I ask, who will buy this?

Answer, no one.

[Anonymous Coward]

Storage & Network equipments if not hardware, at least appliances

Did not see its value in this space.

When system goes wrong, who will the IT folks to get help?

Software or hardware.