Tag: Sizing

Nutanix Hybrid Selection Guide

In earlier post I went through some Nutanix spec sheet issues and while describing some disk size related issues, I made SSD/HDD capacity ratio calculations with Nutanix Hybrid (SSD+HDD) setups. I used only couple of SSD+HDD setups and Nutanix NX platforms as an example.

  • Why not go through possible SSD/HDD ratio ranges for more NX platforms?
  • Find the floor and the ceiling for SSD/HDD ratios?
  • It might be useful in selecting NX Hybrid setup for workloads with certain requirements for SSD/HDD ratio?

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Death of 10k SAS drive?

There is a famous quote by Mark Twain “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”, and despite claims made by All Flash disk array manufactures, this quote still holds true for 10 k SAS drives when comparing only cost per gigabyte. SSD drives have been and are still more costly per gigabyte than their spinning ancestors 10k SAS drives.

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