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Figure 2:
Bring Your Own (BYO) Infrastructure
Anytime you are assembling a number of products from the same vendor or multiple
vendors without prior experience, there is additional risk. There will be a level of
uncertainty about the performance and reliability of the solution until the actual
infrastructure is purchased and deployed in the architected manor.
If one can accept the unknowns and additional risk, the BYO alternative does maximize
flexibility. Since one is able to make nearly any vendor and product decision that is
capable of working together, this allows you to stay with existing vendors you have
had good luck with, while moving to new vendors in other areas.
The BYO alternative is able to scale the compute and storage resources independently.
The only limits to the scaling method or the maximum size would be a constraint of
the individual product choice. Since products are purchased separately, there are no
minimums or set amounts the products need to be scaled in. This allows flexibility in
trying to account for the building block approach mentioned earlier.
Storage Network (SAN)
Network
Hypervisor / Bare Metal
Storage Array
Compute (CPU / Memory)
Core
Services
BYO
Products
