Again, the EMC VxRack Node did extremely well in this testing. While we'd expect some management overhead in the HCI configuration, we really didn't see any adverse impact at all. In fact, the HCI configuration beat the two-layer configuration up to a poi...
It's rare in the enterprise storage market that claims such as incredible performance and very-low overhead play out as well as we've seen with EMC's VxRack Node powered by ScaleIO. In this testing with VMmark, we learn (or re-learn) the ScaleIO mangement...
In our first look at application performance with EMC's ScaleIO VxRack Node in HCI, we are still surprised by just how well it performs. When running the application on the same hardware as the storage resources, ScaleIO software has no negative hit to th...
As we compare the EMC VxRack Nodes in 2-layer versus HCI with HCIbench there are a couple points of note. First, HCIbench isn't useful to determine maximum capabilities of the system. The point here is a comparative one; HCIbench acts as a good tool to ge...
The EMC VxRack Node continues on its path of being high-performance storage array to be reckoned with. In our final two-layer test we ran the VxRack Node through HCIbench in order to look at synthetic performance across small-block random transfers up to...
The VxRack Node has been showing record setting performance as we run it through our benchmarks. While it wasn't the highest score we've seen to date on VMmark, the VxRack Node still had some capacity in the can once we hit our compute saturation point. T...
As the VxRack Node works through our testing regimen, we're again talking about the system setting records. In this case, VxRack takes top scores when it comes to SQL Server latency, meaning it's poised to deliver excellent database transactional quality...
As we wrap up our first performance segment on EMC's VxRack Node powered by ScaleIO, we can't help but to be shocked by the level of performance offered. ScaleIO managed to be one of the few platforms to smash it out of the ballpark in all areas of our sc...
Simple deployment and management, Ultimate flexibility in deployment, Incredibly high-performance
Platform isn't data services feature rich (yet)
EMC has taken an interesting approach with their ScaleIO software stack compared to other HCI players in the market. At first glance one might look at the offering as a basic HCI kit, with minimal rich data services and an over-simplified management suite...
