
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) What is hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)?
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT framework that combines compute, networking, and storage on a single platform. This lowers complexity and costs while enabling better scalability, flexibility, and agility in managing and deploying IT resources.
HCI is achieved through software-centric architecture and virtualization technologies, which pool underlying hardware resources and allocate them dynamically to applications as needed.

- What are the key components of hyperconverged infrastructure?
- What are the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure?
- When should I use hyperconverged infrastructure?
- HPE and HCI
Hyperconverged infrastructure components
Key components of HCI include:
- Software-defined Storage (SDS): Storage resources from the underlying hardware create a virtual pool of storage that can be managed and allocated flexibly.
- Software-defined Compute: Compute resources, typically through virtualization technologies like hypervisors, allow multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server.
- Software-defined Networking (SDN): Networking resources enable more flexible and programmable network management.
HCI solutions typically consist of multiple servers, each with its own local storage and processing power, which are clustered together and managed as a single system.
The underlying hardware resources in an HCI system are virtualized and abstracted by the software layer, which creates a pool of shared resources that can be dynamically assigned to various workloads as required. As a result, businesses can simply deploy, scale, and relocate workloads without having to deal with the underlying hardware components, allowing them to manage their IT infrastructure more effectively and efficiently.
HCI offers an all-around highly effective, scalable, and adaptable platform that can streamline IT administration, lower costs, and offer improved data security and disaster recovery capabilities.