Summary: In this podcast, recorded at <a href="http://www.netapp-insight.com/">NetApp Insight</a> in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to <a href="https://twitter.com/mr_coops">Martin Cooper</a>, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre. The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp’s hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA. <a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/products/converged-systems/hyper-converged-infrastructure.aspx">NetApp HCI</a> uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores aren’t shared by storage and compute. Instead each is delivered as a separate server, more like CI.<br> Martin and Chris discuss the reasons for this architectural choice and how it fits a different market space than traditional hyper-converged solutions.<br> Elapsed Time: 00:11:54<br> Timeline<br> <br> * 00:00:00 – Intro<br> * 00:00:40 – Crowd control at the HCI Booth!<br> * 00:01:00 – HCI – first internally developed product for some time (FlashRay?)<br> * 00:02:45 – FlexpodSF – Flexed on Cisco using ElementOS<br> * 00:03:30 – NetApp HCI, how is it differentiated?<br> * 00:06:00 – Exploiting the SolidFire architecture – programmable storage<br> * 00:06:30 – Day one support – vSphere – but it could be used for other things<br> * 00:09:00 – Integrating into the “Data Fabric” story – the infrastructure fabric<br> * 00:11:00 – Wrap Up<br> <br> Links<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/products/converged-systems/hyper-converged-infrastructure.aspx">NetApp HCI homepage</a><br> * <a href="https://blog.netapp.com/">NetApp Blogs</a> (filter middle option on HCI)<br> <br> <br> Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked. No reproduction or re-use without permission.<br> <br>
