BrandPost: Optimize Your HCI From Edge to Core

To understand Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), we need to take a quick history lesson. It’s important to understand the evolution of legacy data centers and how we got the modern data centers we use today.

Legacy data centers are typically composed of a multi-tier architecture made up of a storage tier, a networking tier, and a compute tier. Each of these components would typically be managed by a different administrator using purpose-built hardware creating a natural barrier, or silo, because of the functionality and expertise required to manage them.

The traditional data center model has been in place for decades. Its rigidity and attendant inefficiencies led to a search for solutions culminating in the creation of Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). Initially, HCI was thought of as a type of software-defined storage, primarily because software abstraction of the traditional enterprise storage architecture was the last element necessary for a truly software-defined data center. HCI has grown to be much larger than its original scope, combining server virtualization with software-defined networking and continuous availability through self-healing along with advanced management and analytics capabilities.

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