What is converged infrastructure?

The design concept of converged infrastructure includes traditional servers, expansion cabinets, management tools and network storage devices. The goal of converged infrastructure is to replace heterogeneous data center equipment with highly integrated and optimized hardware suites, including servers, storage and network equipment.

The design concept of converged infrastructure consists of traditional servers, expansion cabinets, management tools and network storage devices. The goal of converged infrastructure is to replace heterogeneous data center equipment with highly integrated and optimized hardware suites, including servers, storage and network equipment.

When the converged infrastructure arrives at the customer site, it has been configured as an independent operation unit. This consistency of converged infrastructure constitutes the core value of converged infrastructure: converged infrastructure provides physical resources in a logical overall view.

Under the converged infrastructure, the focus on storage has shifted from physical storage connection to logical architecture. In the field of logical storage, storage resources can be allocated more efficiently to meet the needs of virtual machines, and converged infrastructure can also support data compression, deduplication and scalability of large-scale data sets.

In the converged infrastructure mode, you buy by capacity, and when the converged infrastructure needs more resources, you can buy directly. Converged infrastructure no longer needs to consider network and storage resources when providing IT services, but needs practical application.

The converged architecture is configured for the first time, and IT services can be successfully deployed on it to achieve full support for high availability and ensure that long-term service level requirements can be met.

Advanced virtualization and flexibility in the deployment of converged infrastructure provide a prerequisite for deploying private clouds or some types of software-defined data centers.