Hyperconverged Infrastructure

What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure?

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined, unified system that combines all the elements of a traditional data center: storage, compute, networking and management.

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Advantages of Hyperconvergence Over Traditional, Three-tier Architecture

HCI transforms traditional IT operational models with simple, unified resource management, delivering three key benefits:

Increased IT Efficiency

Replace manual processes and siloed operational expertise with a converged IT team that can monitor and manage resources. HCI pools and allocates resources dynamically to improve capacity, performance and protection.

Better Storage at Lower Cost

Reduce your CAPEX with scalable architecture that requires only standard x86 servers—not expensive, purpose-built networking. HCI scales without disruption and overprovisioning, reducing infrastructure costs.

Greater Ability to Scale

Respond to rapidly changing business needs in real time—with HCI, you can set up hardware in hours and spin up workloads in minutes. Now you can accelerate business-critical applications like relational databases with HCI, which scales to meet specific application needs—and future-proofs your IT environment.

Benefits of VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Broadest Flexibility

Manage operations across your hybrid cloud in a common operating environment with vSphere, the industry-leading virtualization platform.

Get certified solutions from your preferred vendor
Use existing virtualization tools
Ensure consistent operations, from edge to core to cloud, across vSAN architectures

Intrinsic Security
Gain a complete L2–L7 networking and security and virtualization platform with NSX Data Center. With this solution, you can:

Ensure intrinsic security, with data protection at rest and in flight
Bring one-click provisioning to your networking and security services
Defend against lateral threats across multi-cloud environments

Seamless Evolution to Full-Stack HCI

Transform your environment smoothly with vSAN, the only flash-optimized storage with embedded vSphere for virtual machines and containers. With vSAN, you can:

Stay native to your hypervisor and leading clouds
Protect and optimize current investments
Reduce TCO by up to 50%

Multi-Cloud Capabilities
Get a modern platform for infrastructure automation, consistent operations and governance with vRealize Suite— the leading cloud system management software.

Access infrastructure and application resources easily, on any cloud
Unify resources under policy-based management
Choose from hundreds of public cloud providers

3 Compelling Reasons to Consolidate on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

If your IT organization continues to struggle with issues like data center sprawl, overwhelming complexity due to manual processes, or managing outdated arrays and the associated resource time and money sink, have you asked yourself why?

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