Over the past few decades, the IT infrastructure landscape has undergone significant transformations, with a focus on three crucial changes. Initially, there was a shift from proprietary mainframes to servers based on the x86 architecture.
Subsequently, the spread of virtualization facilitated more efficient use of resources, facilitating the mobility of workloads. Finally, there has been a shift to the cloud, both in hybrid and native forms.
The result of these evolutions is hardware that is increasingly high-performing but, at the same time,increasingly complex to manage. To address this challenge,hyperconvergence has taken shape as a strategic solution.
The latter aims to reduce costs and optimize the overall management of the IT infrastructure by providing an integrated and synergistic approach.
What does hyperconvergence consist of?
Hyperconvergence is a type of IT infrastructure with an architecture that can efficiently manage the various data processing, storage, networking and virtualization resources of a particular data center.
Unlike other solutions, in hyperconverged data centers, support is provided by a single vendor, and the entire system is overseen by a single software component closely linked to the hardware.
With hyperconvergence, all core functions of the data center are performed through seamlessly integrated software instead of through specific hardware.
Agility, efficiency and cost savings are the three main benefits that represent the value of hyperconvergence for managing your data center.
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Data center hyperconvergence system with OpenStor 2910 powered by Huawei
The All-in-One Openstor 2910 hyperconvergence system powered by Huawei combines Server, Storage, Networking and Virtualization, in just 4 Rack units and can be expanded on demand based on business growth.
Cluster of 3 Dual Processor Intel Xeon Scalable Servers
The cluster, consisting of 3 Servers, provides a high level of reliability and scalability. In the event of a Server failure, the others take over automatically to ensure service continuity (business continuity).
Servers can run in synchronous mode so that workloads can be distributed among them and consequently increase the performance of the entire hyperconverged system.
Enterprise-Class SAN and NAS Dual Controller Storage
The storage is based on adual Active-Active enterprise-class controller architecture, whereby services can be switched in seconds if a single controller fails, ensuring service continuity.
Innovative RAID 2.0+ technology reduces the rebuilding time of 1 TB of data from 10 hours to 30 minutes, and compared with traditional RAID, the risk of data loss due to failure is reduced by 95 percent.
Integrated Networking
The hyperconvergence system does not require any external switches, thus allowing the difficulty of network planning to be reduced by 90 percent.
Management of the entire system is through a unified environment through which computing, storage, networks, upgrades, capacity expansion, inspections and all other operations on the system can be managed.
What is a data center
A data center is a hardware facility used by companies to organize very important applications and data, designed through a network of computing and storage resources that enables the distribution of shared software applications and data.
The main components for designing a data center include routers, firewalls, switches, storage systems (storage), Servers and application deployment controllers.
In addition, to support all the hardware and software components of a data center, a solid infrastructure consisting of power systems, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), ventilation and cooling systems, fire protection systems, generator sets, and connections to external networks is needed.
