Is this an advantage of Storage Spaces Direct over VMware vSAN?

Possible Answer = Licenses included in Hypervisor license

An HPE customer has a DevOps environment based on physical and virtualized servers. They must clone many VMs to avoid conflicts caused by different software versions. Based on recommendations from a consultant, they are planning to implement a Docker container solution.

Is this a reason that containers will solve this customer’s problem with their DevOps environment?

Possible Answer = Containers would simplify the DevOps environment.

An HPE customer runs their CRM software on a five-year old, on-premises virtualization environment. The System Administrators use VMWare Virtual Center to manage all the VMs dedicated to supporting this system. Users have been frustrated with frequent down time due to storage and network failures. The CIO wants to modernize their virtualization Infrastructure.

Does this HPE SimpliVity element improve availability?

Possible Answer = data deduplication and compression