Hyper Converged Infrastructure
Hyper-converged infrastructure(HCI) is a software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional “hardware-defined” systems. HCI includes, at a minimum, virtualized computing, a virtual SAN and virtualized networking. HCI typically runs on commercial off-the-shelf servers. The main objective of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been to simplify the management of data centers by recasting them as transportation systems for software and transactions, rather than networks of processors with storage devices and memory caches.