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.

See also

• KVM, VirtualBox, Proxmox
• OpenStack software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS),
• Kubernetes