Infrastructure Appliance Buyer’s Guide – DCIG

DCIG announced the availability of the DCIG 2017-18 Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance Buyer’s Guide developed from the converged infrastructure body of research.

The guide weights, scores and ranks more than 100 features of 24 products from five 5 vendors. Using ranking categories of Recommended and Excellent, it offers much of the information an organization should need to make a highly-informed decision as to which hyperconverged appliance will suit their needs.

Overall rankings

* The licensing provider is listed at the beginning of each ranking category in which its products are included. One should not draw any negative inferences about any other products included in that ranking.
** OmniStack utilizes Cisco UCS, Dell EMC PowerEdge, HPE, Huawei, or Lenovo servers  

Each appliance included in the guide had to meet the following criteria:

• Must be available (orderable) as a single SKU and includes its own hardware and software
• Must be marketed as a hyperconverged appliance
• Must support at least one hypervisor (XEN, Hyper-V, VMware, KVM, etc)
• Must provide compute and storage in the same infrastructure solution (i.e. the appliance can host multiple VMs and use local direct attached storage as the storage layer)
• Must not require an external storage appliance (i.e. SAN/NAS)
• Must cluster nodes together
• Must support a centralized management and reporting structure
• Must provide data protection features
• There must be sufficient information available to DCIG to make meaningful decisions. DCIG makes a good faith effort to reach out and obtain information from as many storage providers as possible. However, products may be excluded because of a lack of sufficient reliable data
• Must be formally announced and/or available for purchase as of April 28, 2017.