I didn't say it was a rip off. I said it was priced too high (also I went back and cleaned it up so it was more PC). Just want to be careful with how things are interrupted out there. I priced out VSA for a customer and also priced out a low end SAN, the SAN ended up being cheaper. Yet, on the back end they would use the same spindles and the physical IO should be identical minus whatever the penalty is based on how VSA or the SAN works. They woudl both be highly available. Also, VSA didn't scale past 3-nodes, my low end scaled to 8 nodes. ANd in the end IO is the biggest issue, of course I could just throw SSD at it and probably solve the problem with both solutions but I just didn't like the VSA pricing model enough to go down that road. If the VSA was more like 5k I'd consider it, or if the VSA added some ILIO like features I'd consider it.
But I'll tell you what, regardless, I'll do a full scale test of VSA and see how it holds up. I'll post my results.
I would really like to fall in love with the VSA. We all know Storage is the biggest bump to get over when it comes to VDI. I'm just not in love with it yet.