We have been shopping around for a few months now for new hardware. Our VAR has been pushing HCI with VXRail pretty hard. We got a quote for a 6 node cluster with 30ish TB of flash storage for north of 600K (5 years of license and support included). That is a huge pill to swallow, so we started looking at other vendors like Nutanix, Maxta, and Simplivity. Our biggest push for this is the fact that we use Equallogic storage arrays and they will be EOL and out of support soon. Plus our cluster is mainly R820's for compute which will be out of support soon too. I can deal with the 820s since the hardware will be easy to maintain ourselves, but the Equallogics are a whole different beast, requiring Equallogic specific drives and backplanes.

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Do you use HCI? What is your vendor? Is HCI even the way to go, or maybe stick with a standard cluster with separate storage and compute?