什么是超融合基础架构？

HCI provides flexibility to closely align the IT spend with dynamic business demands. Start with exactly what you need and scale to keep pace with business growth, without the need for committing massive capital upfront. It simplifies the data center complexity by reducing the IT footprint and eliminating the need for skilled resources to manage legacy infrastructure.

The simplicity of management, provisioning, and maintenance along with lower initial entry cost and dynamic expansion are the key benefits of HCI. HCI systems lend themselves to software optimization of the hardware, which will reduce CAPEX and drive greater value on each unit of investment. Customers can now realign IT resources more on innovation and strategic business value and less on keeping the lights on. Hypeconverged Infrastructure increases operational flexibility and reduces cost. The simplicity of deployment, ongoing operation, ease of management, and maintenance will reduce planned downtime and enhance productivity.

HCI cluster can start from 2-4 nodes and grow in the linear increments of one node providing greater granularity in IT spend. HCI clusters can scale big to consolidate enterprise apps and reduce IT footprint.

HCI cluster eliminates single-point-of-failure from truly distributed storage deployment model. It is designed to ensure business continuity in the event of a machine or human error. It provides protection against host, VM, rack, or even site failure. Native and optimized data protection and business continuity solution are available to meet the aggressive uptime requirement of business applications.

For integrated HCI appliances, customers receive single point support for hardware, software, and virtualization. Customer service and support for the bring-your-own HCI model are usually split among hardware and software vendors creating a multi-pronged approach.