Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions

CruzOC is a scalable multi-vendor network management and IT operations tool for robust yet easy-to-use netops. Key features of CruzOC’s integrated and automated management include performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle management for 1000s of vendors and converging technologies. With CruzOC, administrators have implicit automation to control their data center operations and critical resources, improve network and service quality, accelerate network and service deployments, and lower operating costs. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management – NMS, monitoring & analytics -- health, NPM, traffic, log, change – Automation & configuration management -- compliance, security, orchestration, provisioning, patch, update, configuration, access control – Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy Deployments available on-premise and from the cloud.

Our goal is to give our partners and customers the solutions they need for their unique digital transformation journeys. Across industries, companies must leverage technology to deepen customer experience and create new market opportunities. At its foundation, that requires an evolving IT infrastructure to meet changing demands and innovate faster. We eliminate the complexities of virtual infrastructure management by offering blazing fast, on-demand VMs, a simple API, and an easy-to-use self-service control panel for customers, on top of a powerful administration control panel for service providers. SolusIO provides a set of powerful virtualization technologies with support for hypervisor and container-based virtualization. Manage KVM virtual machines from one central point. Support for OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, and others will be added in the upcoming releases.

The Sunlight Dashboard, a component of NexVisor HCI, provides a graphical management interface onto any Sunlight cluster - including resource-limited Edge clusters. It provides Highly Available local resource management on a single pain of glass. Manage all of your VMs on a local Sunlight cluster, with fine-grained control of your resources. Resource groups provide control to meet VM requirements. Ultra fine-grained control of performance when needed or simplicity when not needed. Maximum utilisation of constrained Edge resources. Dashboard automatically failsover in the event of server failure. Sunlight is designed with security at its core. All components of the Sunlight stack are hardened. Thanks to Sunlight’s fine grained CPU and memory allocation it is possible to physically guard against CPU memory exploits. Control of IO interfaces allows you to separate content and network traffic so there is no sharing of physical drives or network physical interfaces.

Gain centralized visibility, simplified and efficient management at scale, and extensibility across the hybrid cloud—all from a single console. VMware vCenter Server is advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling your VMware vSphere environments, allowing you to automate and deliver a virtual infrastructure across the hybrid cloud with confidence.

Scale compute and storage on-demand with NetApp® HCI, a hybrid cloud infrastructure that delivers predictable performance for your hybrid cloud on a highly flexible, ultra-efficient architecture. Let the innovation-palooza begin. With NetApp HCI, you can scale storage and compute on demand, together or independently, so you never pay for what you aren’t using. In fact, consolidating multiple workloads with NetApp HCI can reduce your TCO by up to 60%. NetApp HCI doesn’t just manage and run multiple applications with the predictable performance your enterprise and customers demand, it guarantees it. What’s more, resource contention is eliminated, storage performance is three times faster, and compute efficiency increases by 22%. And yes, integration into your data fabric is perfectly seamless. NetApp HCI is the first hybrid cloud infrastructure for everything that matters. It makes managing infrastructure easy.

SvSAN is the virtual SAN that makes the complex world of virtualized storage simple. Perfect for edge computing environments, the technology is based on software-defined storage that eliminates the need for physical SANs. SvSAN is designed to be very simple to install and manage whether deployed as part of a hyperconverged solution or as a storage-only target for any server environment. A true 'set and forget' solution for any environment using centralized deployment and management, for a single site or thousands. SvSAN dramatically lowers costs by eliminating physical SANs, converging compute and storage into a lightweight commodity server footprint. SvSAN delivers on today's performance needs, leveraging existing hardware, with the confidence of scaling for tomorrow's demands. The StorMagic SvSAN Technical Overview is the definitive white paper in gathering a complete picture of SvSAN's capabilities and deployment options.

Wouldn’t it be nice to manage your NetApp storage operations directly from VMware vCenter? Now you can. NetApp solutions help streamline your virtual infrastructure and protect your virtual workloads. NetApp solutions for virtual infrastructure management integrate with VMware vCenter to provide end-to-end lifecycle management for virtual machines (VMs) in VMware environments that use NetApp storage systems. Visibility into the NetApp storage environment from within the vCenter console lets administrators easily perform tasks that improve both server and storage efficiency. The NetApp® SolidFire® VMware vCenter plug-in helps you harness the capabilities of the SolidFire storage platform from within the vCenter environment. It delivers deep integration, end-to-end Quality of Service, automatic storage performance allocation, and simplified management. Streamline your virtual infrastructure.

The prevailing assumption is that containers are ideal only for stateless applications. However, many organizations are seeing the value of containerizing databases for many of the same reasons that they containerize their web applications, the ability to release more frequently, the ease of moving from development to staging to production, and the portability to run the same workload on any infrastructure. In fact, databases have emerged as a top use case for container adoption in a recent Diamanti survey. Cloud Native infrastructure inherently enables stateful applications to take advantage of elasticity and flexibility. However, catastrophic events like hardware failures, power failures, natural disasters or other unexpected events can cause loss of data for an extended period of time. This makes recovery tricky for stateful applications. One of the important requirements for cloud native storage is to seamlessly recover from such catastrophic events.

HPE SimpliVity 380 gives IT organizations the agility and economics of the cloud with the control and governance of on-premises IT. It delivers a powerhouse hyperconverged solution optimized to support the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers. This solution dramatically simplifies IT by combining infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads on a single device. Delivered on HPE ProLiant DL380 servers, the HPE SimpliVity 380 is a compact, scalable, 2U rack-mounted building block that consolidates server, storage, and storage networking services. By delivering a complete set of advanced functionalities, SimpliVity solutions enable dramatic improvements in the operational efficiency, management, protection, and performance of all virtualized workloads for a fraction of the cost and complexity compared to today’s traditional infrastructure stack.

NetThunder is deployed in one of two ways, either as an appliance, or as a system of connected appliances, we call that The Stormâ„¢. This allows NetThunder to provide computing solutions for a large variety of situations and is future-proof. A single appliance can easily be converted into The Stormâ„¢. The NetThunder platform allows you to scale at will. Unlike most hypercoverged infrastructure, NetThunder offers specialized modules the controller will autoconfigure for your environment - optimizing to maximum performance. Configuring multiple networks and a SAN is as simple as red-wire to red-wire. Our subscription pricing model means no huge upfront buy-in cost. NetThunder is deployed either as an appliance or a system of connected appliances we call The Stormâ„¢. This allows NetThunder to provide computing and storage solutions for a large variety of use cases.

Enabling service providers to build cost-effective hybrid cloud solutions. Meet the new alternative for public, hybrid & private cloud, infrastructure and server virtualization. Easily enable hybrid cloud services for all your customers’ business needs today. Increase revenue, agility and performance from your data center with low cost of ownership. Sell flexible and scalable pay-as-you-go infrastructure services to multiple customers with provisioning that takes only minutes. Drive new revenue streams by leveraging public cloud for non-sensitive data and private cloud for business-critical workloads. Deliver scalability with value-adding object, file, and block storage services so your customers don’t need to invest in more on-premises resources.

DataCore™ SANsymphony™ software-defined storage (SDS) provides organizations the flexibility, performance, and simplicity they need to efficiently aggregate isolated disparate storage resources into one highly available storage services pool. DataCore SANsymphony enables any mix of hyperconverged, converged (SAN), and storage virtualization deployment models to mitigate the business risks, IT complexities, and costs associated with different architectures, data migration initiatives, and protocols while increasing your organizations’ agility and competitive edge. DataCore’s hardware agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in and provides ultimate flexibility in how they manage, build, and modernize their storage infrastructures.

Unified, infinitely scalable and simple to manage storage solution designed for modern data centers. It seamlessly transforms enterprise storage infrastructure into a powerful vehicle to accelerate innovation. SUSE Enterprise Storage is a flexible, reliable, cost-efficient and intelligent storage solution. Powered by Ceph, a cloud-native solution is engineered for a wide range of demanding workloads–from archival to high performance computing (HPC). Available for x86 and Arm architecture, it is deployed on generally available off-the-shelve hardware, allowing businesses to store and efficiently process data in order to get competitive edge–optimize business operations, develop deeper customer insights and business intelligence delivering better products and services. SUSE Enterprise Storage supports Kubernetes and seamlessly integrates with ML/AI, EDGE, IoT and embedded architecture.

Standardize on powerful, software-defined HCI to deliver all applications, services and data at any scale - so you can focus on your toughest business challenges. Replace complex legacy infrastructure. Deploy resources in an hour or two, and provision applications the same day to meet business needs. AOS delivers apps with the fastest possible performance, manages all of your data, and self heals to deliver truly invisible infrastructure. Support all application types across data centers and remote sites with subscription-based software that runs on off-the-shelf hardware. Your applications, data and services need consistent performance and resilience at any scale. See why Nutanix HCI is the only solution in the market that you can trust with your digital services. With one-click simplicity, AOS streamlines IT operations and relieves budget pressures by integrating storage, networking, and compute services into a single solution managed by IT generalists.

It's never been easier to adopt hyperconverged infrastructure. Power more mission-critical apps. Flexible services for multicloud. Deploy HyperFlex anywhere with Cisco Intersight. Cisco HyperFlex offers a variety of flexible hyperconverged infrastructure configurations engineered on the Cisco UCS platform. Explore the latest M5 and edge nodes for your specific business needs. Simplify operations and boost performance of mission-critical applications such as SAP apps and Microsoft SQL. Cisco offers a variety of hybrid cloud and container management services to offer you choices. Power applications at the edge with flexible configuration options and multisite management. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) combines compute, virtualization, storage, and networking in a single cluster. Starting with as few as three nodes, users can easily scale out to match computing and storage resource needs. Hyperconvergence brings cloudlike simplicity on-premises.

Designed for easy deployment and manageability, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX combines Nutanix software with Lenovo's #1 reliable, high performing platforms. The ThinkAgile HX1021 certified node is a purpose-built Edge solution with right-sized compute and storage on a 1U height, half-width, and short-depth form factor meeting customer needs at remote locations. The condensed design of the solution allows new compute possibilities directly where data is being generated such as a retail, manufacturing units, gas stations, restaurants, healthcare, and education. Now enhanced with new second-generation Intel processors for even faster performance, the ThinkAgile HX portfolio is optimized for a broad set of virtualized workloads, including Remote Office Branch Office; file, print, and email applications; analytics; and in-memory databases. Lenovo platforms hold the highest number of performance world records and have ranked #1 in reliability for six consecutive years.

Riverbed SteelFusion includes patented technology that delivers a modern, cloud-like experience to IT organizations managing increasingly complex, mission-critical ROBO locations in today’s digital world. SteelFusion is the first and only Software-Defined Edge (SD-Edge) solution that delivers local performance while enabling data convergence, instant provisioning/recovery and lower TCO for distributed organizations. A dedicated appliance or SteelFusion software installed on prescribed 3rd party servers that uniquely integrates server, storage, network and virtualization to run local ROBO applications, eliminating the need for additional branch infrastructure. A storage delivery controller that interfaces with SAN or NAS storage arrays in the data center or public cloud-based storage for additional flexibility. Integrated storage delivery - Riverbed-patented technology that uniquely centralizes data in the datacenter and projects a working set out to your branch.

NetBackup Flex 2 extends NetBackup data protection with ransomware resiliency and multi-tenant capabilities to reduce data center costs and improve management efficiency. Based on container technology, NetBackup Flex is available as an optimized integration on the 5340 appliance for the most demanding workloads in the enterprise core, and on the 5150 appliance to protect small and mid-range workloads in the enterprise and remote offices at the enterprise edge. Learn how NetBackup and our Enterprise Data Services Platform ensure operational resiliency from malicious activities. Learn how NetBackup with Flex Appliance meets critical regulatory requirements.

Huawei’s FusionCube hyper-converged infrastructure brings compute, storage, network, virtualization, and management into one tightly integrated package to achieve high performance, low latency, and rapid deployment. FusionCube’s built-in distributed storage engines enable deep convergence of compute and storage. These Huawei-developed engines eliminate performance bottlenecks while allowing for flexible capacity expansion. FusionCube supports industry mainstream databases and virtualization software. Huawei FusionCube 1000 HyperVisor&Data is data storage infrastructure based on converged architecture. It pre-integrates a distributed storage engine, virtualization software, and cloud management software to support on-demand resource allocation and linear expansion.

Whether you are accelerating data center modernization, deploying a hybrid cloud or creating a developer-ready Kubernetes platform, VxRail delivers a turnkey experience that enables continuous innovation. Joint engineering between Dell EMC and VMware leads to a seamless, curated, and optimized hyperconverged experience. This deep integration combined with the simplicity of VxRail HCI System Software and the performance of next-generation PowerEdge servers provides an ideal platform across core, edge, and cloud.​ K8s your way – accelerate developer productivity through an automated seamless experience with infrastructure options that meets your Kubernetes readiness journey. VxRail HCI System Software delivers highly differentiated features and benefits extending VMware native capabilities to automate deployments and ongoing operations while providing full stack single-click lifecycle management. ​

XC Family solutions consist of XC Series appliances, XC Core nodes, integrated Nutanix software, and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors to offer one of the industry’s most versatile and scalable HCI platforms. With factory-installed Nutanix software and a choice of hypervisors, XC Family systems can be deployed quickly for all virtualized workloads to reduce management complexity and total cost of ownership. Dell EMC has over 12 years of experience integrating hardware and software for appliances built with PowerEdge servers, including 3 generations of XC Family appliances and systems. That experience enables us to develop technologies that simplify and streamline common workflows performed throughout the product’s lifecycle. Factory installation of the software stack and hypervisor. Software modules that deliver fast and seamless deployment. Tools developed specifically for HCI to simplify workflow orchestration across a cluster.

Scalable, seamless, and simplified cloud foundation for business agility and operational consistency. Accelerate business outcome and increase flexibility with a turnkey integrated software-defined data center infrastructure. Agile, automated and available hybrid cloud Infrastructure provides consistent operations and lowers total cost of ownership. Run applications anywhere, and easily scale to meet growing data requirements. Advanced automation to rapidly deploy hybrid cloud, ease the burden on IT and improve efficiency. Automated day 0-2 life cycle management for software and hardware. An integrated SDDC solution powered by VMware Cloud Foundation to power all virtualized and containerized apps. Consistent Infrastructure Across Data Center and Public Cloud. True hybrid cloud infrastructure to run apps anywhere without rearchitecting. Choice of deploying workloads on hyperconverged infrastructure or SAN systems.

The massive expansion in the number and diversity of applications, as well as an explosion in the amount of data being generated and transported through enterprise data centers, has pushed the architectural limits of modern IT infrastructure to its breaking point. Traditional “scale-up�? approaches, where infrastructure services are embedded into top-of-rack switches, networking and security appliances, are no longer able to keep up, making performance, agility and scale limitations a fact of life for many businesses. Pensando Systems was founded on the belief that there has to be a better way to address these complex issues. We have taken a ground up approach to build a platform that gives enterprises the unique ability to drive cloud-like agility, security and operational simplicity across their entire infrastructure with unmatched scale and performance.

StarWind VSAN has been designed with small businesses’ needs and restricted IT budgets in mind. It pulls out close to 100% of the IOPS from your existing raw storage —no crazy expensive hardware required. Licensing is flexible and transparent without any pitfalls or feature paywalls. Virtual SAN from StarWind ensures high uptime and fault tolerance starting with just two nodes. You don’t need a witness if you don’t want to have one. Your IT environment won’t skip a beat even if you lose an entire node plus one individual storage device, HDD or SSD. Scale up, down, or out when and how you need it. Operate your HCI clusters through a unified StarWind web UI. Our engineers will assist in migrating your existing workload to StarWind at no extra cost! Our solution has been specifically designed to bring enterprise-grade features to SMBs, which do not operate corporate budgets. StarWind VSAN requires no witnesses and brings all the promised benefits in a two-node scenario already.

StarWind HCA comes fully pre-configured and fine-tuned to your requirements by StarWind Engineers. StarWind assists with the migration to its solution at no extra cost. There are no hidden costs or licensing pitfalls: StarWind HCA comes with standardized, transparent licensing. It’s a unique StarWind practice not offered by any other HCI vendor for free. StarWind Command Center, a single-pane-of-glass management and monitoring web UI, is also included together with every StarWind HCA license. Control your hardware resources (networking, storage) and software resources (workload, VMs, backups) from a unified convenient dashboard in the form of a neat HTML5-based user interface. StarWind has picked only the highest quality components from the most trusted hardware vendors on the market. The need for a dedicated, old-fashioned, cord-jungle of a datacenter is no more. All the essentials are included in a space-savvy HCI platform that is a fire-and-forget solution.