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Everything you need to know about HCI. We provide hyper-converged infrastructure solutions ready to run out of the box — fully tested, configured, and installed with the minimum of hassle and fuss. Why take months to build an infrastructure when it's already certified by software vendors including VMware and Microsoft?
In an era where businesses are constantly striving for agility, efficiency, and scalability, the traditional siloed approach to data centres is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Hyper-converged infrastructure is a game-changing solution that unlocks countless opportunities for organisations looking to stay ahead in today's fast-paced digital landscape — Hyper Converged Infrastructure can revolutionise your business operations by maximising efficiency and scalability like never before.
Building data centre infrastructures is increasingly complex, error-prone, and time-consuming. The traditional approach of putting together best-in-class components is a complicated and cumbersome process — it requires deep knowledge of all components involved and an understanding of their various dependencies on each other, presenting businesses with multiple risks in a do-it-yourself approach.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is a type of infrastructure that combines storage, networking, and computing resources into a single system, designed to provide high levels of scalability and performance while simplifying the management and deployment of IT resources.
HCI is typically deployed as part of a private or hybrid cloud environment, and offers many benefits over traditional infrastructure models — reduced complexity, increased agility, and improved efficiency. Private clouds built on HCI can help businesses save money on hardware and operations costs, while increasing flexibility and scalability.
When used in conjunction with virtualisation technologies, HCI can provide businesses with a highly scalable and effective way to consolidate their IT infrastructure. By consolidating multiple servers into a single system, businesses can reduce the number of physical servers they need to manage and maintain — leading to significant reductions in operational costs. HCI can also help businesses improve their disaster recovery capabilities, by providing a complete backup of all data and applications stored on the system.
By consolidating disparate IT components onto a single, integrated platform, HCI can simplify IT management and operations while reducing costs, and gives businesses the flexibility to scale their IT infrastructure up or down as needed to meet changing demands.
Consolidating disparate IT components onto a single, integrated platform simplifies management and operations — resulting in reduced costs and improved efficiency.
The flexibility to scale infrastructure up or down as needed helps improve resource utilisation and prevent under-utilisation of assets.
Simplified management combined with improved scalability helps reduce the overall total cost of ownership.
Considering HCI for your infrastructure? Talk to our team about whether it's the right fit for your environment.
Speak to our team →HCI offers many benefits over traditional approaches, but it can be complex to implement and manage effectively. These tips will help you implement HCI efficiently:
Clarity here helps you select the right HCI solution for your needs.
Use HCI to consolidate multiple servers and storage into a single system, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
Automating tasks such as provisioning, monitoring, and management saves time and money with HCI.
Test before rolling out widely, to ensure the HCI solution works as expected in your environment.
Close monitoring helps you identify issues early and avoid problems later down the line.
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a type of IT infrastructure that uses commodity hardware and software to provide server, storage, and networking resources in a single integrated system — designed to be easy to deploy and manage, and to scale so that it can grow with your business.
By consolidating servers, storage, and networking resources into a single system, HCI can help reduce the amount of hardware and software required to support your IT infrastructure, leading to reduced costs and improved resource utilisation. It also simplifies your IT infrastructure and makes it easier to manage, improving efficiency by reducing the time required to manage it. HCI is scalable — as your business grows, you can easily add more nodes to your HCI system to accommodate increased demand.
Businesses are always looking for ways to optimise efficiency and scalability while reducing costs, and HCI has become a popular solution for many organisations seeking to achieve these goals. However, HCI is not without its challenges:
We provide the technical resource to ensure your hyper-converged infrastructure systems are fully built and configured to your specification. Whereas a typical install could take weeks, HCI is typically installed in less than one week — all installs are done by the manufacturers' fully trained and certified engineers to ensure everything goes without a hitch.
With HCI, networking plays a very big part in linking legacy networks to a modern high-speed network. From setting up VLANs, IP address routing, and ensuring VMs can move with the minimum of fuss, we sit down with your networking staff to ensure the system is built at the factory with enough network ports for a seamless install.
Many VM hosts run on an array of different servers and storage platforms — HCI consolidates all these into a single managed stack of systems. As we install the platform we can also assist with setting up your storage pools and migrating VMs from old platforms to the new infrastructure.
Building an HCI system yourself works, but if a problem arises, are you supported by VMware, HP, Microsoft, or Cisco — and does finger-pointing occur if something needs patching and goes wrong? With a fully supported HCI, you get a single support contract, a single contact number, and upgrades and patches that have already been tested and approved on your platform.
HCI offers businesses a number of benefits over more traditional IT infrastructure solutions. By unlocking scalability and efficiency, HCI can give organisations the edge they need to achieve their business objectives without sacrificing performance or stability. With its ability to be easily managed from one unified platform, HCI offers both cost savings and improved flexibility compared with legacy systems — making it an ideal solution for many growing companies.
We provide complete hyper-converged infrastructure solutions from industry-leading providers, to deliver, install, and maintain a complete hyper-converged infrastructure.
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