Hyperconverged Infrastructure?
How HCI Works
How Does Hyperconverged Infrastructure Work?
A hyperconverged platform has four tightly integrated software components:Â
• Storage virtualization
• Compute virtualization
• Networking virtualization
• Advanced management, including automationÂ
Virtualization software abstracts and pools resources, then allocates them dynamically to applications in VMs or containers.
What Can You Do with HCI?
• Build a private cloud: Deploy on-premises with lower costs, more control and better security. Choose from multiple hardware possibilities from our certified partners.
• Extend to public cloud: Choose an as-a-service option from the largest HCI cloud ecosystem for faster speed of deployment and less time spent managing infrastructure.
• Achieve true hybrid cloud: Manage a mix of VM- and container-based applications deployed across a mix of data center, public cloud and edge environments with VMware hybrid cloud.
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.
Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Transformation
Spotlight on HCI
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Top Infrastructure Considerations for Modern Apps
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Top Use Cases for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
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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
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%
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
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
What You Need to Know about Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Transform to Cloud Infrastructure
3 Steps to Modernize Infrastructure for the Cloud
Learn how HCI builds on your technology investments and future-proofs your infrastructure.
Lower Your Data Center Costs with HCI
Find out how you can reduce total cost of ownership by more than 45% with capital and operational savings from HCI.Â
Why Customers Choose HCI
See why more organizations are making the switch to HCI to address today’s IT challenges.Â
Deploy HCI Your Way
Find out which factors to consider with HCI, explore deployment options, then choose one that’s right for you.
