One of the most appealing aspects of hyperconverged Infrastructures is their ability to scale. When IT needs more compute or storage resources to keep up with their rapidly growing enterprise, they are told to “just add a node”. There is…
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Webinar: How Software-Defined Networking Can Simplify Scale-Out HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) offer management simplicity and provisioning agility to data centers undergoing digital transformation. When applications need more compute or storage resources, IT can “simply add a node” to an existing HCI cluster. But as the HCI environment scales…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, Scale, SDDC, VM, VMware
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Webinar: Enterprise Cloud Migration – 4 Problems to Solve
The biggest challenge any enterprise has to get over when migrating workloads to the cloud is SCALE! Large organizations have massive amounts of data; thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of terabytes of data. With this level of scale, migration…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
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Can Hyperconverged Work in the Enterprise?
Hyperconverged architectures have an enterprise problem because while they start off simple enough, as they scale they becoming increasingly complex and waste resources. Storage capacity and performance are particularly difficult to use efficiently. Also, intra-networking, when there are a dozen…
SlideShare: Considering Hyperconverged for Your Enterprise? Three Key Questions to Ask
Over the last few years, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) deployments have been on the increase. HCI combines server, storage and networking into a single system building block, however, it introduces many new complexities into your environment. Listen as Storage Switzerland and…
An Alternative Approach to HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructures claim to be a simpler alternative to a traditional architecture with a dedicated compute and a dedicated storage tier. The primary source of the simplification is the elimination of a dedicated storage tier. Instead, HCI integrates storage into…
Tagged with: Block Based, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Replication, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Data Protection Considerations for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Implementing a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) seems easy, buy the basic three-node configuration, plug it into the network and start creating virtual machines. To a large extent, the initial setup and first days of use are just that, easy. The simple…
“Just Adding Another Node” – The Hidden HCI Scale Complexity
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is supposed to make scaling easier. When the architecture needs to deliver more compute power, storage performance or storage capacity, just add another node. The problem is “just adding another node”, especially as the number of nodes…
Tagged with: Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Can HCI Guarantee Application Performance?
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) promise simplicity; simpler management and simpler scaling. One of the challenges though is that as an organization scales it also starts to expect specific response times from specific applications. Priorities set in, and IT must assure the…
Tagged with: Compression, CPU, Deduplication, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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Can Software Defined Networking Bring Scale to HCI? – Big Switch HCI Briefing Note
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is one of those technologies that look great on the whiteboard. The idea of collapsing the compute, storage and networking tiers into one, and creating an infrastructure that automatically scales as each node is added to the…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, HCI, Hyperconverged, Redundancy, SAS, SATA, SDN, SSD, VM, VSAN
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