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Experimental

  • Hyper-converged: Nutanix Acropolis, HPE Simplivity

  • VMWare extensions: NSX, vSAN, vCloud

Strategic (3-5 Years)

  • VMWare vSphere

Tactical (1-2 Years)

  • VMWare vSphere 6.5

Containment

 
  • n/a

Retirement

  • Solaris 10 zonesn/a

 

Emerging Trends

  • Over the past few years there has been a strong trend toward hyper-converged architectures that merge compute, store and virtualization in one integrated solution.

  • We expect the need for the seamless movement of servers from on-prem to vendor Clouds, which requires the increased use of Hybrid Cloud enabling technologies.

  • Desktop virtualization comes up year-after-year as a potential need for the University.  In the future we may need to incorporate VDI in this brick or in a new brick.

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