Providing a more agile infrastructure with industry-leading hyper converged infrastructure solutions. Bid farewell to the complex and expensive traditional IT solutions and feel the powerful power of cloud.
The birth of hyper converged infrastructure
With the explosive growth of network scale in the 1990s, people have introduced infrastructure with server San and storage network, which have independent modules and can be updated or changed without affecting other layers. This infrastructure has revolutionized it and is still in use today.
But now, in the hybrid cloud era, the three-tier model can no longer meet the it needs. It is complex and clumsy, unable to provide a solid foundation for development and operation, nor to achieve large-scale expansion as before.
Today, hyper converged infrastructure has become the infrastructure of choice for companies who want to remain competitive and ensure that their data centers are available for the cloud.
What is hyper converged infrastructure
The hyper converged infrastructure combines common data center hardware and intelligent software that use locally connected storage resources to create flexible construction components that replace traditional infrastructure consisting of individual servers, storage networks, and storage arrays. Its advantages lie in reducing total cost of ownership, improving performance and it team efficiency.
Agile infrastructure
Standardize the infrastructure so that it can be deployed in minutes and scale with business growth without any disruption. Gain advantages similar to cloud, and freely choose appropriate technologies according to business needs.
Intelligent operation and maintenance
Eliminate the need for multiple management consoles for integrated control and visibility across the virtualization infrastructure stack. Leverage on advanced machine learning technology to gain insight and optimize virtualization and infrastructure planning and management.
Flexible billing
Convert capital expenditure into operating expenditure. You are no longer forced to purchase fixed infrastructure services for three to five years. Moreover, an independent survey conducted by IDC found that operating expenses would be reduced by 60%, while the five-year return on investment would be as high as 534% and the payback period would be seven months.
How does hyper converged infrastructure work
Hyper converged infrastructure integrates the entire data center stack, including computing, storage, storage networking, and virtualization. Platforms running on one-stop industry standard servers have replaced the complex and expensive old infrastructure, enabling enterprises to start small and expand one node at a time. The software running on each server node allocates all operational functions in the cluster for superior performance and resilience.
Components of hyper converged infrastructure
The hyper converged infrastructure consists of two main components: the distributed plane and the management plane.
Distributed plane runs on node cluster, providing storage, virtualization and network services for virtual machine or container based applications.
The management plane enables easy management of all hyper converged infrastructure resources from a single view, eliminating the need for separate management solutions for servers, storage networks, storage, and virtualization.
Almost all modern hyper converged infrastructure solutions are 100% software defined and no longer rely on dedicated hardware facilities. Each hyper converged infrastructure node in the cluster runs a virtualization Manager (VMware esxi or Microsoft Hyper-V). At the same time, on each node, the hyper converged infrastructure control function runs as a separate virtual machine, forming a complete distributed framework, which can realize resource expansion by adding new nodes.
