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Should I use erasure coding or RAID for HCI?
Hyper-converged systems, like any other, require data protection. We describe using RAID and erasure coding for hyper-convergence to help you pick the best option for your HCI.
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Hyper-converged deployment options detailed
An HCI deployment can be done in one of three ways -- full replacement, side-by-side or per application -- each with pluses and minus, depending on requirements and resources.
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Essential tips to ease HCI management
These tips address specific aspects of HCI management and illustrate ways to better integrate these systems with third-party tools and overall IT infrastructure.
How to Craft a Converged Secondary Storage Strategy with Care
In this expert guide, receive answers to 7 fundamental questions, an analysis of Asigra, Cohesity, HPE and Rubrik hyper-converged secondary storage products, key benefits of converged secondary storage and cautions, and much more.
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Set secondary storage based on application needs
Using secondary storage can improve the performance of mission-critical applications, but deciding what data is secondary in importance isn't as easy as it seems.
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Hyper-converged technology lock-in myths and facts
The risk of HCI vendor lock-in is real. The reason why is different than you might think, however. See how it often comes down to financial, not technical, limitations in this article.
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HPE: We're still committed to SimpliVity HCI
HPE exec says vendor's HCI strategy is 'SimpliVity, SimpliVity, SimpliVity' -- but don't forget HPE's competitive Nutanix and Nimble Storage dHCI products.
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Essential tips to ease HCI management
These tips address specific aspects of HCI management and illustrate ways to better integrate these systems with third-party tools and overall IT infrastructure.
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Nutanix expands past HCI with Flow, Beam and Era
With the introduction of Flow, Beam and Era, Nutanix has made a clear statement that it's aiming for a comprehensive Nutanix enterprise cloud OS.
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Top 3 hardware-based HCI vendors
HCI isn't just a software product; market vendors such as Nutanix, HPE and Pivot3 also have specific appliances for admins that want features for network and storage management.
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Should I use erasure coding or RAID for HCI?
Hyper-converged systems, like any other, require data protection. We describe using RAID and erasure coding for hyper-convergence to help you pick the best option for your HCI.
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Hyper-converged technology lock-in myths and facts
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Hyper-converged vs. hypervisor management tools
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Which should I pick? Software or appliance HCI
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HPE simplifies Docker-based CaaS cloud deployment
Reference Configuration guides the deployment of the complete Docker-based Containers-as-a-Service platform on HPE Synergy composable infrastructure to simplify container use.
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You don't always need all-flash for HCI storage
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HCI is ideal for building out a private cloud
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Your top hyper-converged storage questions answered
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Essential tips to ease HCI management
These tips address specific aspects of HCI management and illustrate ways to better integrate these systems with third-party tools and overall IT infrastructure.
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Ask these important HCI data protection questions
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Businesses invest in HCI to transform data centers
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Composing your infrastructure: Some assembly required
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E-Handbook | May 2019
Use cloud HCI as a stepping stone to hybrid cloud deployment
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E-Handbook | July 2018
How hyper-converged secondary storage fits in the HCI world
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E-Handbook | April 2018
Hyper-converged IT options should match your workload needs
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E-Handbook | October 2017
VDI values hyper-converged infrastructure benefits
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E-Handbook | July 2017
How to build your own hyper-converged computing platform
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Get to know these composable infrastructure terms
Dig into these terms to get a sense of composable infrastructure and what its disaggregated server capabilities can bring to your IT environment and application workloads.
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Hyper-converged deployment options detailed
An HCI deployment can be done in one of three ways -- full replacement, side-by-side or per application -- each with pluses and minus, depending on requirements and resources.
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Ask these important HCI data protection questions
Procure a hyper-converged infrastructure, and you'll need to protect the data residing in that environment. Ask and answer these questions to determine the best HCI backup approach for your organization.
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Air ambulance uses vSAN, cloud for constant uptime
Angel MedFlight runs a multi-cloud setup, using a customer-built app and hyper-converged infrastructure built on VMware vSAN software and HPE ProLiant servers.
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Hyper-Converged Vendors and Products
HPE: We're still committed to SimpliVity HCI
HPE exec says vendor's HCI strategy is 'SimpliVity, SimpliVity, SimpliVity' -- but don't forget HPE's competitive Nutanix and Nimble Storage dHCI products.
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HPE brings Nimble to HCI -- make that dHCI
Is disaggregated HCI a thing? Hewlett Packard Enterprise says yes, with its new Nimble Storage-ProLiant server combo that looks more like converged infrastructure than hyper-converged.