What is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure?
HCI is the natural evolution of server virtualization. An integrated software stack, it delivers all key data center functions—compute, storage, storage networking, and unified management—and runs on industry-standard x86 servers, enabling a simple, building block architecture with scale-out capabilities.
How does HCI solve data centre challenges
that traditional or converged infrastructure cannot?
Cuts costs
With a simpler, modular architecture, you’re buying lower-cost, industry standard components only when you need them
Eliminates Overprovisioning
With VM-centric provisioning and management, you use only what you need, where and when you need it
Reduces Complexity and Risk
Deploy one software stack built on the industry’s most proven hypervisor with end-to-end management
Enables IT Agility
Policy-based controls automate provisioning and SLA changes and enable fast, non-disruptive scaling
Why HCI?
HCI makes your job a whole lot more enjoyable by:
- Removing dependencies, giving you the ability to make changes fast—such as provisioning an app or moving a workload—without waiting for another team or group to fulfill a request
- Enabling you to work in a more holistic way across the data center by breaking down silos
- Separating storage provisioning from storage consumption through per-VM storage policy-based management, to allow even greater self-sufficiency
VMware offers two flexible deployment options:
- Certified HCI solutions enable ultimate customization. Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are a ready-to-go hardware solution available from all major x86 server vendors.
- An engineered HCI appliance provides a turnkey solution. The VCE VxRail appliance is a fully integrated, preconfigured, tested solution.
Learn more about Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
10 Key Considerations for Selecting Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
What to Know Before You Choose a Solution
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Tech Brief
Traditional infrastructure needs to evolve. Is your data centre ready for the future?
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VMware® provides a unique, software-defined approach to HCI, leveraging the hypervisor to deliver compute, storage, and networking in a tightly integrated software stack, called VMware Hyper-Converged Software (VMware HCS).
It consists of three components: the VMware vSphere® hypervisor, VMware Virtual SAN™ storage, and VMware vCenter Server.™ Together, these components provide the simplest, most efficient, and highest-performing hyper-converged software solution on the market.
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