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This article will explain in detail how to distinguish between ScaleIO, VSAN and ViPR. The content of the article is of high quality, so the editor will share it with you for reference. I hope you will have some understanding of the relevant knowledge after reading this article.

It seems that there has been no product release since EMC acquired ScaleIO, so it has not been known how EMC will position this product.

But these two days, EMC said on EMC WORLD 2014 that ScaleIO is ready to supply.

In the EMC Alliance, several products related to software-defined storage (SDS) are mainly ScaleIO, VSAN, and ViPR. What's the difference between them?

Let's take a look at ViPR first. EMC has just released the ViPR 2.0 product. As you can see, this box contains a variety of EMC's own storage, as well as a lot of third-party storage.

ScaleIO, as a key component of ViPR, provides SERVER SAN services.

In fact, we can understand that ViPR is a virtualization controller without a hard disk like HDS high-end storage, but virtualization like HDS can only access third-party arrays, while ViPR can access almost any type of storage. This is the main difference.

As for ScaleIO, under the impression that it only supported FLASH at the time of acquisition, it now seems to be a general-purpose SERVER SAN software platform. It can be part of ViPR, or it can be sold independently.

If ScaleIO sells independently, what does it have to do with VMWARE's VSAN?

To sum up, there are two main differences:

1. Different application scenarios. ScaleIO can support heterogeneous virtualization platforms, while VSAN only supports vSphere. That is, you can think of VSAN as part of vSphere.

2. The expansibility is different. ScaleIO is much more scalable than VSAN. Currently, VSAN supports up to 32 nodes, while SacleIO is said to support thousands of nodes.

According to foreign media reports, if ScaleIO SERVER SAN is used, if there are 48 servers, the computing power consumed by the storage part accounts for only 20%, that is, users can use 80% of the computing power for applications. For VSAN, there is no similar data, but there is also a layer of vSphere on top of VSAN, which is estimated to leave less computing power to the business.

In the form of Server SAN, it feels that EMC should bet mainly on ScaleIO. Therefore, it is recommended that storage manufacturers pay more attention to the progress of ScaleIO, which poses a much greater threat than VSAN.

On how to distinguish between ScaleIO, VSAN, ViPR to share the differences here, I hope the above content can be of some help to you, can learn more knowledge. If you think the article is good, you can share it for more people to see.

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