My view on EVO:RAIL has always been that it is a nice piece of technology, but it is way too expensive with a deeply flawed licensing model (more thoughts at VMware EVO:RAIL or VSAN – which makes the most sense?). It has just been “improved” because you can now use existing vSphere licenses which will dramatically reduce the cost of the appliance (more details here).
Even though VMware had a great chance to really make things so much better they have wasted the opportunity – amazingly they are still forcing you to use Enterprise Plus whereas Essentials Plus would be more appropriate in most cases. It is also not clear if the vSphere licences can be moved, or if Virtual SAN and Log Insight are still tied to the hardware or if existing licenses can be used as well.
So this still leaves us with the following questions:
- Why would you have to use vSphere Enterprise Plus?
- Why would you not have perpetual rights to all of the software?
- Why would you want 4 under-powered nodes?
- Why would you want the minimum number of nodes to be 4 (2 or 3 would be better)?
- Why would you scale in 4 node increments (1 would be better)?
- Why would you not allow the addition of extra drives?
The bottom line is I would love to know what VMware’s agenda is for EVO:RAIL – if anyone knows please get in touch because I just do not get it.
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