What virtualization problems can be solved by the vStack hyperconverged platform<\/h2>\r\n

Problem 1. High price of equipment<\/h3>\r\nForeign virtualization market leaders offer the platform either together with embedded solutions or with a rigid HCL. For example, Cisco works only on its own hardware, while VMware works on partner companies\u2019 hardware that has undergone long-term validation. Typically, this hardware is enterprise-grade. In addition to the high price it has a long delivery time. It is also worth noting that operating such hardware without vendor support often does not make much sense, because it often has \u201cclosed\u201d or proprietary interaction interfaces.\r\n\r\nThe vStack platform is not tied to hardware<\/strong> and customers can choose their own vendors and use standard or commodity servers for certain tasks. Commodity is a versatile and easily replaceable piece of hardware, sometimes also referred to as \u201cconsumable\u201d hardware. \r\n

Problem 2: Low performance<\/h3>\r\nOften companies have to choose \u2013 save money and lose performance or increase budget. Reducing IT infrastructure costs with vStack occurs without sacrificing performance. On the contrary, vStack performance is higher than competitors due to the absence of legacy and irrelevant problems in the code base, as well as the lightweight nature of the technical solutions used.\r\n\r\n

Problem 3. High Overhead in Computing<\/h3>\r\nCPU Overhead is an indicator that shows the decrease in performance of a virtual server compared to a physical server due to virtualization overhead. It tells you how much of the physical computing power is greater than the numbers required for the task at hand. The lower the value, the less money is spent on overhead.\r\n\r\nThe importance of this component is due to the fact that Moore\u2019s Law has ceased to work. Technological support for CPU performance growth has become impractical. Where the consumer is used to solving such problems with more productive hardware, this is becoming impossible, forcing many to look for other ways to solve the problem. One such way is to reduce overhead.\r\n\r\nThe average CPU Overhead for many companies is 10-15%. In vStack this figure is 2-5%.<\/strong> Low Overhead allows the company to efficiently use the available capacity, reduce overhead and license costs.\r\n\r\n

Problem 4: Low efficiency under CPU Overcommit<\/h3>\r\nCPU Overcommit indicates the ability to use more resources than are available. The higher the overcommit, the more cost-effective virtualization is. Its increase is due to the adaptive mechanism of work in conditions of CPU overcommit using several classes of resource budgeting. This allows vStack to achieve 900% efficiency in the CPU overcommit computation layer.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n

Problem 5: Shortage of personnel and high cost of specialists<\/h3>\r\nTo create, maintain and update the IT infrastructure in a company, you need a whole staff of experienced IT professionals. This is a minimum of one employee to support each server, network and storage system, plus professionals in the field of virtualization and IS. It takes time and budget to find such employees.\r\n\r\n A single administrator can do the job, so you don\u2019t have to hire a whole staff of expensive professionals. You can reduce the cost of additional staff.\r\n

Problem 6. Scaling Difficulties<\/h3>\r\nThe more complex an IT infrastructure is, the more time and effort it takes to scale. In hyperconvergence, one node fulfills all roles, and all nodes are the same. This greatly simplifies the process of infrastructure expansion.\r\n

Problem 7. Large number of legacy <\/h3>.\r\n\r\nMany well-known virtualization solutions (such as VMware) have been under development for a long time. During this time, they have managed to accumulate legacy, that is, code that was created to solve problems that have already lost relevance. Its problem is that due to the constant increase of the number of layers, even a small extension leads to a loss of performance. And the user has to pay for the functionality he doesn\u2019t need and is irrelevant. At the same time, removing legacy code is a long and costly process, and developers and owners are reluctant to do it.\r\n\r\nThere is no legacy in the code of the vStack platform. It is a modern, comprehensive, monolithic solution that appeared four years ago. The vStack developers do not address legacy issues and irrelevant problems, so that the platform remains flexible and lightweight.\r\n\r\nModern hyperconverged platforms help reduce IT infrastructure costs, increase productivity and accelerate the expansion and modernization of existing systems. At the same time, the cost of ownership of the Russian vStack solution is half that of VMware or Nutanix. This allows to solve problems and tasks faced by the Russian business in the period of turbulence without excessive costs.<\/with>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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