What is hyper-fusion? What are the advantages of super all-in-one machine?

The inspiration of hyper-convergence comes from building a large-scale data center through software-defined technology, combining virtualization technology with enterprise IT scenarios, and realizing scalable IT infrastructure for enterprises.

At present, Lenovo Hyperconverged All-in-One Machine in China is an IT infrastructure that integrates server clusters and provides computing, storage, network and other resources to the outside world by using distributed storage and computing virtualization technology. Help customers greatly reduce the complexity of data centers of all sizes.

These two architectures are different. All-in-one machine can only be called converged architecture, and the concepts of hyper-converged architecture and converged architecture are different.

Converged architecture is the integration of basic components such as computing, storage, network and server virtualization. These resources and technologies usually come from different suppliers, and through integration, they can work closely as a whole. In other words, vendors that combine these resources and technologies are likely to add another management layer on it, and at the same time, add other components to make it easier to deploy and manage. For example, ORACLE's integrated database machine is a converged architecture. The devices include X86 servers, high-speed networks and storage, and they are not all owned by Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but come from different manufacturers.

Hyperconverged infrastructure refers to a complete infrastructure built by the same supplier and combined into a set of equipment. So from this point of view, the same set of equipment not only includes resources and technologies such as computing, network, storage, server virtualization, but also includes backup software, snapshot technology, deduplication, online data compression, WAN link optimization, etc. The same vendor combines multiple components that make up a traditional IT infrastructure and applies them to a set of equipment.