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I can't find this in my cloud console. The info pages are all pushing the "Contact a sales rep" button. It's not clear whether all the pricing info is included

I can't find this in my cloud console. The info pages are all pushing the "Contact a sales rep" button. It's not clear whether all the pricing info is included yet. They lists one possible node at $10/hour ($7200/mo) before contract length discounts: > CPU: 2.6 GHz (3.9 GHz Turbo) x2, 36 cores/72 hyperthreads > Memory: 768 GB > Data: 19.2 TB NVMe > Cache: 3.2 TB NVMe I could already import VMDK's to run in GCE. Obviously this is not intended for that, but rather to provide vSphere/vCenter/ESXi in the cloud. Where I've used these in the past (for relatively low-tech IIoT work), I'd often "pull" the VM's off the on-prem server and run 4-12 VM's on my laptop to simulate and configure machines for chemical plants. If I was in the office, I could RDP into the machines running on the on-prem server and would be able to enjoy a high performing desktop environment. Obviously as I was in the same building as the vSphere/ESXi host, latency was very low. I've had significant issues with latency in the past trying to use RDP/VNC/etc from Houston to any of GCP's datacenters and wonder if that would affect quality of service for this offering. Will a lot of users be remoting into these VM's to use boxes running Windows/GUI/etc? Or is this a very different use case?

sl1ck731 6y ago
I don't believe it is available yet. > Google Cloud VMware Engine is expected to be generally available to customers this quarter in the North Virginia (us-east4) and Los Angeles (us-west2) regions. > We plan for the service to be available globally in eight additional regions—London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Montréal, São Paulo, Singapore, and Netherlands—in the second half of the calendar year.
techntoke 6y ago
With the latest ThreadRipper would probably be the same price after 3 months of service to buy the equipment. If you're running more than 3 servers, most likely you are, then you can add 5 2TB (10TB) per node of M.2 SSDs which are super fast for cache, and cheaper SATA SSDs for regular storage and cluster the storage using Rook (Ceph). Most expensive thing is RAM. There are a lot of great colo facilities for this type of hardware. Using secure boot, TPM, LUKS and tamper detection, it sure would be hard to break into your server even if not caged. Most of these facilities have video cams and modern security protocols. However, if you can migrate your workloads to Kubernetes with KubeVirt and others then I'd advise you avoid VMware like the plague.
- dannyw 6y ago
  The public clouds are ridiculously more expensive than on-prem; especially for egress. That’s an open secret; people choose clouds for the convenience.

sl1ck731 6y ago

I don't believe it is available yet. > Google Cloud VMware Engine is expected to be generally available to customers this quarter in the North Virginia (us-east4) and Los Angeles (us-west2) regions. > We plan for the service to be available globally in eight additional regions—London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Montréal, São Paulo, Singapore, and Netherlands—in the second half of the calendar year.

techntoke 6y ago

With the latest ThreadRipper would probably be the same price after 3 months of service to buy the equipment. If you're running more than 3 servers, most likely you are, then you can add 5 2TB (10TB) per node of M.2 SSDs which are super fast for cache, and cheaper SATA SSDs for regular storage and cluster the storage using Rook (Ceph). Most expensive thing is RAM. There are a lot of great colo facilities for this type of hardware. Using secure boot, TPM, LUKS and tamper detection, it sure would be hard to break into your server even if not caged. Most of these facilities have video cams and modern security protocols. However, if you can migrate your workloads to Kubernetes with KubeVirt and others then I'd advise you avoid VMware like the plague.

dannyw 6y ago
The public clouds are ridiculously more expensive than on-prem; especially for egress. That’s an open secret; people choose clouds for the convenience.