Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Powered by vSAN

What is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)?

Hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) allows the convergence of physical storage onto industry-standard x86 servers, enabling a building block approach with scale-out capabilities. All key data center functions run as software on the hypervisor in a tightly integrated software layer – delivering services that were previously provided via hardware through software.

What is VMware’s Industry-Leading Software for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)?

VMware provides a unique, software-defined approach to hyper convergence, leveraging the hypervisor to deliver compute, storage and management in a tightly integrated software stack.

hci vsan

HCI powered by vSAN consists of:

  • vSphere:
    our industry-leading virtualization platform that provides server virtualization.
  • vSAN:
    the only vSphere-embedded storage solution that delivers flash-optimized, high-performance, hyper-converged storage for virtual machines.
  • vCenter Server:
    the unified and extensible management solution for vSphere environments.

HCI powered by vSAN gives you the broadest choice of hardware deployment options. The vSAN ReadyNode program includes more than 150 certified x86 systems available from all the major server vendors. Dell EMC VxRail is a turnkey hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, jointly engineered by VMware and Dell EMC, which offers the most streamlined deployment experience.