The Next Generation of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Increasing Flexibility
HCI 2.0, the second generation of hyperconverged infrastructure is now here to continue the drastic improvements and advancements made to the data storage infrastructures and data centers. Even the best of the best things need improvements to further cover the grounds which are unpaved. This article will discuss what improvements HCI 2.0 brings to the hyperconverged appliance.
First generation of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
As far as the first generation of hyperconverged infrastructure is concerned, it has brought remarkable simplicity, flexibility and scalability to the system but there has been even a better environment which has improved it further. One of the ways in which HCI 2.0 improves the first generation hyperconverged infrastructure is that it allows the upgrading the individual components of the infrastructure independent of any other component.
What Does HCI 2.0 Brings To the Data Storage Environment
HCI 2.0 makes sure that the users are not forced to buy anything that is not needed at present. For instance, adding a storage involves having extra compute and network resources which come along with the additional appliance nodes. In this way, the users pay only what they require. This does not make the users to pay extra which not only makes the data storage solution affordable and cost efficient for them but also reduces the fuss that is involved in upgrading and maintaining the system.
Well, HCI 2.0 is a very new concept and there has not been any definite definition of the concept but this is something which has become the future direction of the hyperconverged infrastructure. This is the latest evolution which has made hyperconverged infrastructure to be able to stay on top of the market and become an integral part of almost every data center now.
HCI 2.0 will enable hyperconverged infrastructure to meet the future challenges also and leave no weaknesses or faults for any type of use case. It is aimed to make hyperconverged infrastructure absolutely flawless, so that it can have no deficiencies what so ever.
Now that Hyperconverged cloud has become a mandatory infrastructure for almost every data center and data storage environment, there has to be a constant process of improvements and incremental changes to make things simpler, advanced and efficient.
HCI 2.0 is paving the path for hyperconverged infrastructure to become like a composable infrastructure by allowing the resources of the system like storage, network and compute to be disaggregated from the hardware.Instead the resources are put in the pools which are created virtually.
The new HCI 2.0 will allow the users to have upgrades in data storage independent of other components such as compute. If not in all cases, some cases will allow the users to have upgrades in the components independently of the others.
Conclusion
Hyperconverged infrastructure is becoming more and more flexible with the introduction of HCI 2.0 which can be taken as the second generation of hyperconverged infrastructure. It maximizes the flexibility and makes sure that users get an even better experience than before.