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Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Articles
What Is a Hyperconverged Appliance? Benefits and Challenges
Hyperconverged appliances are integrated solutions that optimize data center operations and resource usage. Unlike traditional, siloed infrastructures, where each resource functions independently, hyperconverged appliances consolidate these elements in a device, making it easier to deploy, manage, and scale IT. This architecture simplifies infrastructure management and enables data centers to respond rapidly to changing business demands. Many IT teams rely on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions to modernize their data center to scale for business continuity and availability. Let’s explore HCI appliances in-depth and learn more about their features that help scale IT efficiently.
by Sagar Joshi
What Is Converged Infrastructure? How It Works, Pros, and Cons
Time is the greatest enemy of IT.
by Sagar Joshi
What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? A Detailed Guide
What do you see when you imagine a traditional data center? Probably a tiered architecture setup: independent server, storage, management, networking, and virtualization modules. You can’t run a data center without these IT infrastructures. But data center management isn’t easy with so many building blocks. Clunky data center operation slows down cloud workload handling, which stops you from meeting business demands. Thankfully, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) exists. HCI is an IT framework that unifies software-defined storage, virtualized networking, and computing to ease data center resource centralization and management. Data centers turn to HCI solutions to combine their tech stack into a single platform, minimize complexity, and boost scalability.
by Sudipto Paul
Hypervisor: Types, How It Works, and Use cases
Imagine cloning yourself to take care of many different work tasks at the same time. You could attend a meeting, respond to emails, work on your team’s new application, and train a new team member all in the same hour.
by Alyssa Towns
What Is Software-defined Storage? Benefits and Best Solutions
Enterprise IT teams using hardware-bound IT infrastructure connect data storage operations to specific devices.
by Sudipto Paul
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Glossary Terms
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Discussions
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Question on: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
Is there an option to produce reports on access levels within flow?For compliance reports.
Hi Andy, if you're referring to audit logs, Flow provides both a policy change audit log and packet hit log, which could be sent to a log aggregator or business reporting tool to generate business reports.
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Question on: VMware vCenter
How do I increase the speed of the system?Vmware is slow and laggy sometimes. How can I improve on it?
The speed of VMware VirtualCenter will primarily be based on the assigned resources of the system. You can always add CPU or Memory resources if you are running into an issue with those. You can also reduce the amount of data that you are collecting or holding on the system if that is what you believe to be slowing you down. I would recommend the vCenter Appliance if you are able, as the speed of it is incredibly fast in comparison to the alternative. In any case, I would recommend contacting VMWare support for any issue with slowness. Another thing I would highly recommend is to participate in VMWare Skyline for your systems to stay on top of any issues with your overall environment.
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Question on: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
easier way to migrate linux and also machines that cannot see move via networking on a different vl?
While the Linux VM is powered off copy the virtual disk into Nutanix images. Most likely format is VMDK and then just make a new VM from that disk image and match the specs, power it on, set an IP needed since it will be a new adapter. If a physical Linux server you can use a P2V tool like VMware converter to create the VMDK.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Reports
Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Winter 2025
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Mid-Market Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Winter 2025
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Small-Business Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Winter 2025
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Momentum Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Winter 2025
G2 Report: Momentum Grid® Report
Small-Business Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Fall 2024
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Momentum Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Fall 2024
G2 Report: Momentum Grid® Report
Mid-Market Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Fall 2024
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Fall 2024
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Summer 2024
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Mid-Market Grid® Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions
Summer 2024
G2 Report: Grid® Report