Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Enterprises today are seeking to accelerate innovation and time to market by driving unprecedented resilience, agility, and workload consolidation from IT. With an intelligent hyperconverged infrastructure from HPE, all that is now within reach.
Leverage the simplicity of HCI for any use case
- Introducing HCI 2.0
- 3 ways HCI 2.0 goes beyond
- Power the edge
- Breaking boundaries
- Upgrade to intelligence
- Streamline IT operations
Introducing HCI 2.0: The next generation of HCI
HCI has evolved to HCI 2.0—with a new architecture that delivers the HCI experience of unified management and VM-centric operations with higher availability, faster performance, and flexible scaling. This enables organizations to simplify operations and unlock agility, while ensuring their applications are always-on and always-fast and at the best economics.
And with HPE Alletra dHCI you get the best of converged and hyperconverged architectures on a flexible platform with independent scaling of compute and storage.
3 ways HCI 2.0 goes beyond traditional HCI
Flexibility of converged. Simplicity of HCI. Drive IT agility and accelerate time to market with 99.9999% availability. HCI delivered simplicity and agility, and now it’s time to bring that experience to your business with HCI 2.0 from HPE.
Take a look at this infographic to find out more about the next evolution of hyperconverged infrastructure.
HPE offers a market-leading portfolio of HCI solutions available as a service through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. From general purpose and business critical applications, virtualized and containerized applications, get cloud-like flexibility coupled with on-premises control.
Power the edge
Harness an architecture that’s ideal for edge and ROBO use cases. Intelligently simple hyperconverged infrastructure can lower costs substantially at the edge. In fact, analysts at ESG found savings of as much as 55% as the number of remote and branch office sites grow.
All while never having to compromise on availability as HPE solutions can combine resiliency, performance and efficiency into 2-node HA clusters optimized for the edge. All made intelligently simple in an all-in-one stack edge-optimized HCI solution.
Breaking the boundaries of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Powered by the predictive intelligence of HPE InfoSight, and capable of running even your most demanding workloads, HPE’s hyperconverged offerings redefine what HCI can be. Self-managing, self-optimizing, and self-healing, this is an AI-driven HCI that delivers the simplicity, efficiency, and economy of hyperconverged for your entire environment.
Upgrade to intelligently simple IT
Quick to deploy, fast to scale, and hyper efficient, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) 2.0 solutions from HPE can power all of your apps while streamlining operations, consolidating workloads, and protecting your data. Discover how organizations have pivoted to intelligent, high-performance solutions leveraging HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI to drive their businesses from datacenter to edge to cloud.
Streamline IT operations for distributed enterprises and organizations of any size
Now organizations of any size can benefit from the benefits of moving to HCI. Whether you have multiple sites running disparate platforms or a single complicated campus location, it all equals a genuine hassle for your IT department. A common hyperconverged infrastructure, from core to edge, brings order to administration, support, deployment, and data protection.
Explore our Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Power your business with AI-driven solutions that combine compute, storage, and networking with advanced data services in a single, integrated platform. Deliver unprecedented simplicity, agility, and intelligence with hyperconverged IT.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure case studies
Adopting hyperconvergence and adapting to the new realities in retail
"We were initially running 300 virtual desktops and needed to spin up 700 more to give our employees the flexibility to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using HPE SimpliVity, we were able to do so in just 12 minutes.” - Murat Zobu, System and Cloud Infrastructure Manager at MIGROS TICARET A.S.
HCI frequently asked questions
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What is a hyperconverged infrastructure?
A hyperconverged infrastructure, or hyperconvergence infrastructure, is defined as an IT framework that combines storage, computing, and networking into a single system to reduce data center complexity and streamline operations.
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How does a hyperconverged infrastructure work?
Hyperconverged software-defined infrastructure virtualizes all elements of the traditional hardware stack, including compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor, and is centrally managed by a single piece of software. A typical HCI system consists of a hypervisor for virtualized computing, a software-defined networking (SDN) component. These resources are combined into pools that can be dynamically balanced and allocated to deliver the right amount of capacity, performance, and protection needed by a virtual machine to run business applications.
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What are the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure?
Hyperconverged systems in a hyperconverged infrastructure enable you to seamlessly manage complex infrastructure, accelerate virtualized workloads, accelerate virtualized workloads, reduce complexity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce cost. Hyperconvergence offers the reliability, availability, performance and capacity needed for virtualized workloads – while future proofing IT infrastructure and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
Hyperconverged infrastructure:
- Enables centralized management of virtual environments via a single interface
- Provides data protection, disaster recovery and resiliency
- Includes advanced data services enabling high data efficiency
- Offers streamlined acquisition, deployment, support, and management
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What is the difference between a converged and hyperconverged infrastructure?
Hyperconverged and converged infrastructures each have simplified architectures and integrate the main components of the data center – storage, compute, networking – into a simplified management experience. While hyperconverged systems accomplish this through software and so are hardware agnostic, converged solutions rely on hardware.
A key difference between these two technologies is that in a converged infrastructure, each of the components is discrete and can be used for its intended purpose the server can be separated and used as a server, just as storage can be separated and used as functional storage. In a hyperconverged infrastructure, the architecture is software defined meaning all the components are tightly integrated and cannot be broken out into separate parts.
Another key difference is how each handles storage. In a converged architecture, the storage is attached directly to the physical servers. Hyperconverged infrastructure has the storage controller function running as a service on each node in the cluster, thereby improving scalability and resilience. Flash storage is generally used for each to ensure high performance for applications.
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How can you use a hyperconverged infrastructure?
There are many use cases for HCI, including:
- Data center consolidation/mixed workloads
For customers who want a smaller data center footprint, lower TCO, and an escape from endless update and refresh cycles, data consolidation with HCI is an ideal choice. In one integrated solution, it simplifies data center consolidation initiatives and reduces the cost and complexity of ongoing operations. - Edge
Multi-site remote locations are witnessing application and data growth that requires a simplified experience for management and protection. HCI is a perfect solution for these environments because it provides the enterprise with features needed to run what is essentially a small data center in a compact, all-in-one system. - Business-critical applications
With HCI, business-critical applications run faster and are easier to manage compared to traditional infrastructure. With accelerated performance, high data efficiency, and easy scaling, HCI is very well suited for the applications that are critical to run your business. - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
When an organization makes the switch from physical to virtual desktops, the expectation is that virtual desktops will perform just as well. VDI deployments must deliver a couple of key capabilities including ultra-fast application provisioning and predictable performance at peak demand. The great thing about a top-notch HCI solution is that not only does it deliver these capabilities, but it can also provide more desktops on less hardware, as well as high-performance graphics support, data protection and resiliency, simple management, and scalability. - Containers
Containers and microservices are the new normal for application development, particularly for the emerging breed of cloud-native applications. These new application development architectures need a modernized infrastructure approach like HCI to achieve the speed, simplicity, and insights necessary to drive transformation.
- Data center consolidation/mixed workloads