Re:Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
by brian_cunnie on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:13AM
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You're absolutey right—they aren't comparable, and my personal example is misleading.
For clarity's sake, my setup cost ~$10k, and includes a 12TB ZFS NAS server, a 10GBe back end, 2 ESXi hosts totaling 16 cores, 256GB. It also took many weekends to set up (and labor isn't cheap).
The uplink is mere Comcast, and, at 30Mbps, does not come close to rivaling a cloud offering. Also, I'm unable to scale as fast as the cloud (think weeks instead of minutes).
On the positive side, for those of us who love infrastructure, there's nothing like running your own, very small, cloud.
For clarity's sake, my setup cost ~$10k, and includes a 12TB ZFS NAS server, a 10GBe back end, 2 ESXi hosts totaling 16 cores, 256GB. It also took many weekends to set up (and labor isn't cheap).
The uplink is mere Comcast, and, at 30Mbps, does not come close to rivaling a cloud offering. Also, I'm unable to scale as fast as the cloud (think weeks instead of minutes).
On the positive side, for those of us who love infrastructure, there's nothing like running your own, very small, cloud.
Disclosure: I work for VMware.