{"id":7632,"date":"2018-11-05T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2018-11-05T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:58:27","slug":"hyper-converged-infrastructure-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/hyper-converged-infrastructure-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-converged infrastructure &#8211; Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>Hyper-converged infrastructure<\/b>\u00a0(<b>HCI<\/b>) is a\u00a0<a title=\"Software-defined infrastructure\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software-defined_infrastructure\">software-defined<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"IT infrastructure\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IT_infrastructure\">IT infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional &#8220;<a title=\"Computer hardware\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_hardware\">hardware<\/a>-defined&#8221; systems. HCI includes, at a minimum,\u00a0<a title=\"Virtualization\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtualization\">virtualized computing<\/a>\u00a0(a\u00a0<a title=\"Hypervisor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypervisor\">hypervisor<\/a>), a virtualised\u00a0<a title=\"Storage area network\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storage_area_network\">SAN<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Software-defined storage\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software-defined_storage\">software-defined storage<\/a>) and virtualized networking (<a title=\"Software-defined networking\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software-defined_networking\">software-defined networking<\/a>). HCI typically runs on\u00a0<a title=\"Commercial off-the-shelf\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commercial_off-the-shelf\">commercial off-the-shelf<\/a>\u00a0(COTS) servers.<br \/>\nThe primary difference between\u00a0<a title=\"Converged infrastructure\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Converged_infrastructure\">converged infrastructure (CI)<\/a>\u00a0and hyper-converged infrastructure is that in HCI, both the storage area network and the underlying storage abstractions are implemented virtually in software (at or via the hypervisor) rather than physically, in hardware. Because all of the software-defined elements are implemented within the context of the hypervisor, management of all resources can be\u00a0<a title=\"Federation (information technology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federation_(information_technology)\">federated<\/a>\u00a0across all instances of a hyper-converged infrastructure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyper-converged_infrastructure\">Hyper-converged infrastructure &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyper-converged infrastructure\u00a0(HCI) is a\u00a0software-defined\u00a0IT infrastructure\u00a0that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional &#8220;hardware-defined&#8221; systems. HCI includes, at a minimum,\u00a0virtualized computing\u00a0(a\u00a0hypervisor), a virtualised\u00a0SAN\u00a0(software-defined storage) and virtualized networking (software-defined networking). HCI typically runs on\u00a0commercial off-the-shelf\u00a0(COTS) servers. The primary difference between\u00a0converged infrastructure (CI)\u00a0and hyper-converged infrastructure is that in HCI, both the storage area network and the underlying storage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/hyper-converged-infrastructure-wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hyper-converged infrastructure &#8211; Wikipedia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}