Squeezed on Hyperconverged space? Go beyond the stack

While hyperconverged storage is easy to administer, it comes with a high cost per terabyte

Sooner or later, your hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) environment will need more capacity. And while few would argue against the many benefits of hyperconvergence, fewer still would call it 'cheap'.

Storage-dense nodes that have the ability to be seamlessly managed can be easily added. Provided you stay with that vendor, and pay a cost that the vendor has little incentive to discount once you've already invested into their ecosystem and they are the only choice you have without resorting to a forklift-installed upgrade and a long migration project. Only to be back in the same situation 3 years later.

But does it have to be that way?

Don't let storage costs limit your growth

If you've gotten a quote to expand your existing HCI environment and are at a loss on how to make budget and still be able to meet the demands of your growing data, you do have options.

Not all storage in your environment may need to be under the purvey of the HCI stack. While that stack simplifies administration for sure, maybe you don't have to break the bank to get some storage you can use that has acceptable levels of performance and recoverability - at a significantly lower cost. Buffalo's scalable NAS solutions leverage iSCSI to expand your HCI storage capacity directly, by adding as many TeraStation NAS devices as needed to supplement individual server capacities. At the same time they provide a level of performance and reliability that you can be comfortable putting critical data on.

The guest virtual operating systems that your HCI hosts are fully-featured systems in their own right, and if they are a Windows or Linux OS, they come complete with iSCSI initiators of their own that can connect to the TeraStation and claim its iSCSI volume as local storage.

A little bit more know-how needed to set it up? Yes. A bit less automated admin and redundancy? Sure. A whole heck of a lot cheaper per terabyte? Absolutely.

The Buffalo solution significantly lowers cost per terabyte, potentially saving you up to 50% compared to conventional HCI storage servers.

Do business with a team who cares

If you have siticker shock on a storage node quote, don't despair. Give us a look instead. Our team can find the right solution for you. Buffalo is very proud to have been consistently chosen by the MSP community as the smoothest team to do business with both both before and after the sale. We'd love to talk to you about your project and show you why. We've been dedicated to our customers in the US and Japan for over 30 years.

Ready to optimize your storage costs? We can help, primary storage performance starting under $10k.

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