Gavin Haslett

Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Almost 7 years ago

Answered a question: What is the biggest difference between HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSAN?

There are a lot of technical differences between both solutions but there are a few notes that are key to understanding the differences 1. SimpliVity is not tied to a single hypervisor; rather it can work with KVM, Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors. 2. VMware vSAN is…

Almost 7 years ago

Answered a question: Do you think VMware’s HCI solution is a good alternative to AWS?

As others have noted, it depends a lot on your workloads and requirements. VMware HCI (VSAN) is very good as a software-defined-storage platform and competes toe-to-toe with Nutanix (which others are talking about). While Nutanix' hypervisor is free, the licensing for the…

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Almost 7 years ago

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What is the biggest difference between HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSAN?

Almost 7 years ago

HCI

Do you think VMware’s HCI solution is a good alternative to AWS?

About me

Expertise in a wide range of technologies, and integration of disparate systems such as UNIX, Windows, iSeries and others. Experience also with LAN and WAN technologies as well as storage area networks (SAN).

Specialties: Enterprise storage (SAN's and NAS), VMWare, Citrix, Windows, Linux, UNIX, Macintosh, Networking, Cisco, Systems Engineering, Design, Implementation, Planning, Systems Architecture, Storage Architecture and Administration.

Education

Havering College