hyperconverged Archives - Intelligent Infrastructure

Watch out for HCI’s Elevated Risks

August 8, 2017
Satinder Sharma
hyperconverged, HCI

KEY TAKEAWAYS Combining compute and storage in the same hardware with conventional HCI comes at a price. Performance troubleshooting on a tightly coupled and distributed architecture is a big challenge. Failures can have a much higher impact, increasing risk. Conventional…

Don’t Know Much About Hyperconverged

May 22, 2015
Tintri
VM-Aware, I/O Blender, hyperconverged, HCI

Hyperconverged infrastructure may seem to have some advantages, such as easy scale-out, component standardization and management efficiency--but these don't quite make up for its shortcomings. For instance, storage resources reach their peak in hyperconverged settings. But then you have to add another appliance,…