### Contents - [**Articles**](#resources-articles) - [**Glossary Terms**](#resources-glossary_terms) - [**Discussions**](#resources-discussions) - [**Reports**](#resources-reports) # Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Resources ##### Articles, Glossary Terms, Discussions, and Reports to expand your knowledge on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Resource pages are designed to give you a cross-section of information we have on specific categories. You'll find [articles](#resources-articles) from our experts, [feature definitions](#resources-glossary_terms), [discussions](#resources-discussions) from users like you, and [reports](#resources-reports) from industry data. [ContentsExpand/Collapse Contents](#) - [**Articles**](#resources-articles) - [**Glossary Terms**](#resources-glossary_terms) - [**Discussions**](#resources-discussions) - [**Reports**](#resources-reports) ## Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Articles [![What Is a Hyperconverged Appliance? Pros, Cons, and Examples](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/hyperconverged%20appliance.png "What Is a Hyperconverged Appliance? Pros, Cons, and Examples")](https://www.g2.com/articles/hyperconverged-appliance) [ ### What Is a Hyperconverged Appliance? Pros, Cons, and Examples ](https://www.g2.com/articles/hyperconverged-appliance) In legacy IT environments, network glitches and performance lags often required manual escalation to system administrators. [ ![Sagar Joshi](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sagar Joshi") SJ ](https://learn.g2.com/author/sagar-joshi) by Sagar Joshi [![What Is Converged Infrastructure? How It Works, Pros, and Cons](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/converged%20infrastructure.png "What Is Converged Infrastructure? How It Works, Pros, and Cons")](https://www.g2.com/articles/converged-infrastructure) [ ### What Is Converged Infrastructure? How It Works, Pros, and Cons ](https://www.g2.com/articles/converged-infrastructure) Time is the greatest enemy of IT. [ ![Sagar Joshi](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sagar Joshi") SJ ](https://learn.g2.com/author/sagar-joshi) by Sagar Joshi [![What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? A Detailed Guide](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/hyperconverged%20infrastructure.png "What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? A Detailed Guide")](https://www.g2.com/articles/hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci) [ ### What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? A Detailed Guide ](https://www.g2.com/articles/hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci) What do you see when you imagine a traditional data center? Probably a tiered architecture setup: independent server, storage, management, networking, and virtualization modules. You can’t run a data center without these IT infrastructures.  But data center management isn’t easy with so many building blocks. Clunky data center operation slows down cloud workload handling, which stops you from meeting business demands. Thankfully, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) exists. HCI is an IT framework that unifies software-defined storage, virtualized networking, and computing to ease data center resource centralization and management. Data centers turn to HCI solutions to combine their tech stack into a single platform, minimize complexity, and boost scalability. [ ![Sudipto Paul](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sudipto Paul") SP ](https://learn.g2.com/author/sudipto-paul) by Sudipto Paul [![Hypervisor: Types, How It Works, and Use cases](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/hypervisor.png "Hypervisor: Types, How It Works, and Use cases")](https://www.g2.com/articles/hypervisor) [ ### Hypervisor: Types, How It Works, and Use cases ](https://www.g2.com/articles/hypervisor) Imagine cloning yourself to take care of many different work tasks at the same time. You could attend a meeting, respond to emails, work on your team’s new application, and train a new team member all in the same hour. [ ![Alyssa Towns](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alyssa Towns") AT ](https://learn.g2.com/author/alyssa-towns) by Alyssa Towns [![What Is Software-defined Storage? Benefits and Best Solutions](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/software-defined%20storage.png "What Is Software-defined Storage? Benefits and Best Solutions")](https://www.g2.com/articles/software-defined-storage) [ ### What Is Software-defined Storage? Benefits and Best Solutions ](https://www.g2.com/articles/software-defined-storage) Enterprise IT teams using hardware-bound IT infrastructure connect data storage operations to specific devices. [ ![Sudipto Paul](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sudipto Paul") SP ](https://learn.g2.com/author/sudipto-paul) by Sudipto Paul Show More ## Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Glossary Terms [![Hyperconverged Storage](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/G2CM_GI851_Glossary_Article_Images_%5Bhyperconverged_storage%5D_V1b.png "Hyperconverged Storage")](https://www.g2.com/glossary/hyperconverged-storage-definition) [Hyperconverged Storage](https://www.g2.com/glossary/hyperconverged-storage-definition) Hyperconverged storage is an element of hyperconverged infrastructure. Discover how hyperconvergence works and helps organizations scale. by Alyssa Towns [![Hyperconverged Infrastructure](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/HCI.jpg "Hyperconverged Infrastructure")](https://www.g2.com/glossary/hyperconverged-infrastructure-definition) [Hyperconverged Infrastructure](https://www.g2.com/glossary/hyperconverged-infrastructure-definition) What is hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), and why is it important as a software feature? Our G2 guide can help you understand HCI, how it’s used by industry professionals, and the benefits of HCI. by Preethica Furtado ## Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions Discussions 0 Question on: VxRail [What are the advantages of VxRail?](/discussions/what-are-the-advantages-of-vxrail) What are the advantages of VxRail? No SAN environment. No Storage administrator require. Easy management No hardware failures, comparing with all other product VxRail hardware failure events are very less Answered: Satheesh Kumar on September 17, 2022 [Your answer](/discussions/what-are-the-advantages-of-vxrail/comments/new?remote=true) 0 Question on: SC// HyperCore Virtualization Suite [What is HC3?](/discussions/what-is-hc3) What is HC3? “HC3” is a term previously used to describe Scale Computing's 3-Tier Hyperconverged Infrastructure offering. As of May 2022, we relaunched the former HC3 product as Scale Computing Platform, which includes Scale Computing HyperCore (the underlying software), hardware appliances, and the new Scale Computing Fleet Manager (cloud-based management tool) as an all-in-one hyperconverged infrastructure. Answered: Ellie Sherven on January 11, 2023 HC3 is the principal product offering of Scale Computing. It is a Hyper-Converged system comprised of nodes which are themselves individual server platforms. The hypervisor architecture pools the CPU, memory and disk resources of the nodes to dynamically allocate them among running VMs. Adding nodes increases the pool of resources thus providing scalability. Answered: Gary Babin on January 27, 2023 [See more answers (1)](javascript:void(0);) [Your answer](/discussions/what-is-hc3/comments/new?remote=true) 0 Question on: StarWind Virtual SAN [How does StarWind virtual SAN work?](/discussions/how-does-starwind-virtual-san-work) How does StarWind virtual SAN work? It works by providing iSCSI targets that are syncronised across hosts using dedicated synchronization and heartbeat networks. 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