Hyper-converged infrastructure

wikipedia:Hyper-converged_infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional "hardware-defined" systems.

Major vendors with solutions in HCI include Nutanix, VMware vSAN, HP SimpliVity and RedHat with Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure (RHHI) product.

Cloud

• Azure Stack (2016)
• AWS Outpost (2018)

Solutions

• Vblock (EMC)
• Nutanix (2009)
• OpenStack (2010)
• Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
• Dell EMC VxRail
• HP SimpliVity
• Cisco HyperFlex
• Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure (RHHI) (2017)
• VMware Cloud Foundation: vSphere, VMware vSAN, NSX, VRealize

Related terms

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

See also

• KVM, VirtualBox, Proxmox
• OpenStack software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
• Hyper-converged infrastructure: Nutanix, RHHI, OpenStack, HP SimpliVity, VMware vSAN, Gartner Magic Quadrant, VxRail
• Cloud: cloud providers, cloud timeline, serverless computing, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, Alibaba CloudAlibaba, Tencent, Baidu, VPC, Cloud Foundry, Snowflake, Huawei Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CISPE, CIPS