As IT leaders move away from VMware, they face a critical decision: do they stick with traditional storage architectures, or is now the time to finally unlock the full potential of an infrastructure that converges virtualization, storage, and networking technologies?
Early convergence efforts centered on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), where storage ran as a virtual machine under the hypervisor, commonly called a vSAN. While adoption has lagged behind traditional three-tier architectures, recent advancements have significantly improved vSAN, making it worth reconsidering by addressing past shortcomings.
Ceph / Openshift Data Foundation is also an option for hyper converged clustered storage.
Ceph is also quite tightly integrated on Proxmox for smaller deployments.
Yup! Ceph is quite nice once you’re up at the ~6 node scale. Openshift Data Foundation is based on Rook, which is a nice way to automate Ceph deployment, as well.
I’ve actually been running Rook on my home server rack, up to 120TiB now 😁