K1000 - Hardware or Virtual Appliance
We are having some problems with our K1000 that support has determined are being caused by our old MBX harware.
We are trying to decide whether to go with a new harware appliance or to go virtual.
We have a VMWare infrastructure in place, put will have to purchase new storage to accomidate the virtual box. This will cost ~$2,500 more than the hardware appliance, but will be used for other purposes as well.
If you had to pick, would you go with the hardware applicance or virtual?
Answers (6)
From a support stand point a physical is better then you only have to deal with 1 company for support.
VM you could have one for the hardware. os. vmware, san, kbox
I don't have an answer for you, but just wanted to chime in myself because we are thinking about converting to a virtual appliance if we can beef it up to perform better than our physical appliance. Hope someone answers!
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My two cents-I personally think a physical is better because if you go with a virtual appliance, you must monitor and manager two additional servers on top of whatever else you have-one for the Kace environment itself, and one for the SQL instance for Kace-which means two more resources that need to be kept up to date. (windows upates, AV updates, ect)
If you go with a physical appliance, all the capabilities are baked in and you have to monitor just the kbox itself-no need for AV or windows protection on the kbox. - dkurz8814 11 years ago-
Everything for the K1 Virtual appliance is held within the virtual appliance, no extra servers needed. - andrew_lubchansky 11 years ago
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Thanks for the info! - nheyne 11 years ago
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Thanks for the info! - nheyne 11 years ago
If I had to spend more money on the virtual appliance then I would definitely go physical. The latest model of the K1 is pretty beefy.
I agree with mpace, the lastest servers they are shipping out have a lot more than the 500 gb of storage you are limited to with a vm and a lot processing power that is dedicated to the K1000.
I would go physical. Everything is isolated in one system. All resources are available for the KBOX and not shared. Being that it is cheaper, that would seal the deal for me. As the others have indicated, the physical boxes space has increased nicely so you shouldn't have to worry to much about space issues for the forseeable future.
Thank you all for the feedback. We have decided to go with a physical appliance.