In this special episode, Mike slides his podcaster hat over to the side to put on his potential customer hat. With an upcoming infrastructure project on the table, he asks Shane to help him out by doing a deep dive into Scale Computing and it's HC3 offering.

Among other things, Mike and Shane cover:

The inexpensive virtualization hosting costs Mike's institute receives at UT
Mike's shifting perspective away from the "big iron" UCS+SAN paradigm to hyper-converged infrastructure
The basics of what HC3 is and the SMB market it targets, and the typical IT shop that deploys it
How VM's and data on an HC3 cluster survives a node failure
Exactly what it would take to rack up a 5U 3 node HC3 cluster for Mike's project in central IT's data center
Capacity Planning on HC3
Migrating from another hypervisor into an HC3 cluster
How many education & higher education customers function as SMB's from an IT budget / staffing perspective
Backups and HC3

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