EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Today's enterprise datacenter can be one of the most complex business environments with dozens
(for smaller businesses), hundreds (for larger and midsize businesses), and even thousands
(for hyperscale businesses) of servers that must be managed and monitored. At this level, just being
able to manage the cords can be a challenge — let alone keeping up with the growing need for more
agility and scalability within the datacenter. Simply put, companies are aggressively looking for less
complexity and more agility from their servers. Hyperconverged solutions deliver simplicity in spades with
their plug-and-play setup and their ability to deploy workloads faster than traditional servers.
What Is Hyperconverged?
Hyperconverged systems are an emerging breed of solutions that natively collapse core storage,
compute, and storage networking functions into a single software solution or appliance. This is in
contrast to traditional integrated platforms and systems in which autonomous compute, storage, and
networking systems are integrated at the factory by the vendor or by resellers. In addition to integrating
storage and compute functions into a single node (or a cluster of nodes, each offering compute and
storage functions), all hyperconverged systems employ: