Uh... UCS Azure Stack anyone?
Starship + UCS + NVMe + VMware + Nexus + Windows + Linux + Hyperflex storage etc...
This is a tub of rubbish which is delivered with CVDs which takes weeks to months to deploy.
If you have a validated design and an automation platform, then you plug it in, answer some questions, and let it rip and it's done.
Or you can buy Cisco UCS with Azure Stack, turn it on, answer a few questions and your running in an hour without having to pay $60,000 a blade for licenses plus the Windows tax. Or you can install Ubuntu on a VM on a laptop and point it to a UCS and get a full OpenStack up and running with containers and automation.
Come on guys... Microsoft and Ubuntu have nailed full data center automation, have app stores and eliminate the need for server, storage or network guys in the data center. TCO on Hyperflex is close to a $150,000 dollars more per blade than on Azure Stack or Open Stack. Why the hell would anyone invest so heavily in VMware which is great for legacy... but we already have legacy sorted. Run that and as more services move to Azure Stack or Open Stack, shut down more legacy Vmware blades.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
