We used Cisco UCS before. We also have SuperMicro Servers for deployment. We chose to use Dell because of the flexibility and durability of the hardware. Also, the deployment process of Dell is very simple.

Previously, we used to use Cisco before VxFlex. We switched because of the environment. We had high latency in the storage. Also, the underlying servers were obsolete. They were end-of-life.

We just used pure VM. On HP, on the hardware itself, it was HP and virtualization. It was not a hybrid comparison. It was only a VM solution. We switched to hybrid just to take the features of all the clash kind of stuff that is more I would say sophisticated in the hybrid compared to HCI or other solutions. We moved from converged to hyper-converged. It's the technology itself that lead us to change solutions. VM as a combination isn't as good as VxRail as a total solution.

For hyper-converged, we did not previously use a different solution. I used a normal server previously. Dell VxRack is the first solution that I've used as a hyper-convergence solution. Before I was using the HP server and another server. But they are not hyper-converged, they are normal servers.