NetApp's HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) offers a cloud-like infrastructure with integrated computing, storage, and network resources in one system. The entire system is based on the NetApp SolidFire technology and an architecture developed by NetApp. NetApp has developed a scalable and easy to manage system component solution, suitable for versatile applications and companies of any size. It can be flexibly integrated into any data center - from the simplest to the most complex network, and offers guaranteed application performance with sophisticated integrated replication, efficiency, data protection, and high availability services.
NetApp offers the HCI system standard in a minimum configuration of two RU-4N chassis with two computing nodes and four storage nodes. From this basic configuration, any number of computing nodes and storage nodes can be added and combined with one another.
Overall, NetApp HCI brings together and supports the following technologies:
- SolidFire Element OS: Storage operating system for scale-out block storage
- Intuitive implementation engine: implements and configures storage components within storage and
computing resources - Stable monitoring agent: monitors HCI and storage resources and sends information to vCenter
and Active IQ - SolidFire vCenter Plugin: comprehensive selection of granular storage management functions
- SolidFire Management Node: VM to monitor and update HCI systems, which also enables remote support
- VMware ESXi and vCenter v6: Host virtualization and management software
- NetApp Data Fabric: Integration achieved through the SolidFire Element OS, including SnapMirror,
SnapCenter, and ONTAP Select file services, as well as AltaVault and StorageGRID backup solutions
An intuitive user interface makes possible easy, centralized management using a VMware vCenter Plug-in, which in turn guarantees complete control of the entire infrastructure. The integration of NetApp ONTAP Select opens a range of deployment opportunities for existing NetApp customers, and anyone else looking to modernize their data center.
Benefits of the NetApp HCI solution
The main benefits are:
- Guaranteed performance –
through consolidation of heterogeneous workloads and finely tuned performance management and
control at the VM level. - Flexibility and scaling –
through optimization and the protection of existing investments, as well as independent scaling of computing and storage resources. - Automated infrastructure –
through automated and optimized management, an extremely fast implementation, as well as
simplification using a comprehensive API ecosystem. - NetApp Data Fabric –
through which company data can be moved freely as needed between private, regional, and
public cloud architectures, ensuring greater data sovereignty and security.
NetApp solutions are among the world's most frequently-used data management and storage architectures for processing, saving, and storing data securely, efficiently, and at the highest levels of performance.
Thanks to guaranteed performance, even when running multiple applications, you can be confident using NetApp HCI for your entire data center.
Configurations
HCI is available in three sizes:
- S: Small HCI - 16 Cores (Compute), 5,5 TB effective storage capacity
- M: Medium HCI - 24 Cores (Compute), 11 TB effective storage capacity
- L: Large HCI - 36 Cores (Compute), 22 TB effective storage capacity
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