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.

Related terms

• Vblock (EMC)

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, Free trial, Cloudera, Vantage.sh, Render