Reading Time: 14 minutesThis is the fourth part of a set of posts realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a ROBO infrastructure. See also the original post.
Design a ROBO infrastructure. Part 4: HCI solutions
2-nodes hyperconverged solution
As written in the previous post, for ROBO scenario the most interesting HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) configuration is a two nodes configuration, considering that two nodes could be enough to run dozen VMs (or also more).
For this reason, not all hyperconverged solutions could be suitable for this case (for example Nutanix or Simplivity need at least 3 nodes). And is not simple scale down an enterprise solution to a small size, due to the architecture constraints.
Actually, there are some interesting products specific for HCI in ROBO scenario:
- VMware Virtual SAN in a 2 nodes clusters
- StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance
- StorMagic SvSAN
