In today's business environment, where data and information volumes are constantly growing, effective management of IT infrastructure becomes critically important for a company's successful operation.

Hyperconvergence represents a new phase in the development of traditional methods for creating IT infrastructure. Unlike the traditional IT infrastructure model, where servers, networks, and storage functioned as separate elements, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) integrates all these resources into a single system that is easy to scale and manage.

Benefits of HCI for Your Business

Implementing HCI offers significant advantages for businesses, including:

Centralized Management: Managing all resources through a single platform significantly simplifies the work of administrators. The ability to control computing nodes, storage, and network settings without switching between different interfaces greatly simplifies the processes of monitoring, configuration, and updating, making them more convenient and efficient.

Ease of Scaling: HCI solutions can easily scale or expand, allowing organizations to add entire nodes or increase computing, network, or storage resources to meet the demands of new business tasks and constantly growing needs.

Security and Data Protection: Thanks to centralized data replication, hyperconverged infrastructure enhances data resiliency and security through automation. HCI facilitates rapid data recovery after disasters and minimizes downtime.

However, to fully experience these benefits within your company, you need to choose a solution that best meets your business needs.

Dell Technologies HCI Portfolio

Innovative products from Dell Technologies offer a broad spectrum of HCI solutions tailored to both modern and traditional workloads. The comprehensive vendor portfolio in this area allows you to choose a product based on your current infrastructure, operational models, and desired IT outcomes.

Dell Technologies VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail: This solution enables the transition to a software-defined data center and VMware hybrid cloud using VCF on VxRail. It significantly reduces risks and increases the efficiency of IT environment operations.

Dell Technologies vSAN Ready Node: These hyperconverged "building blocks" enable simple and flexible data center modernization through a jointly certified and pre-configured HCI solution, combining a broad range of PowerEdge servers and VMware vSAN software, which in turn reduces risks and accelerates deployment.

Dell Technologies PowerFlex: A modern software-defined platform that combines computing and high-performance storage resources, ensuring flexibility, adaptability, and simplicity, as well as predictable performance and resiliency when scaling.

Dell Technologies Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack: Joint solutions from Dell Technologies and Microsoft allow you to create and manage hybrid and edge software products in various locations, providing choice and flexibility to meet modern needs across different workloads.

Dell Technologies XC Family: XC solutions combine Nutanix integrated software and Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors, making this combination one of the most versatile and scalable HCI platforms in this field.

Particularly noteworthy is the product that sets the standard for hyperconverged infrastructure among Dell Technologies solutions — VxRail. VxRail is the only fully integrated, pre-configured, and tested hyperconverged infrastructure appliance based on VMware Virtual SAN. It provides the easiest and fastest way to extend VMware environments.

One of the most important advantages of the VxRail product, as an HCI solution, is its ability to combine the three main components of traditional IT infrastructure — servers, storage systems, and network switches — into a single integrated system, while in classical infrastructure, these three levels exist separately, complicating management and increasing support costs.

VxRail is an expansive system consisting of common block modules operating on the best-in-class VxRail HCI System Software, allowing customers to start small and expand, seamlessly scaling performance and throughput from 2 to 64 nodes in a cluster.

Scaling by one node and increasing storage capacity ensures predictable expansion with economic costs as needed and the possibility of future vertical and horizontal scaling as business and user requirements grow.

Modern Solutions for Modern Business

The main value of HCI is that it reduces the complexity of IT infrastructure. It involves having as little interaction with the underlying IT infrastructure as possible. Dell Technologies' solutions in the field of hyperconverged infrastructure enable companies to adapt to modern business demands, ensuring reliability, performance, and security. By choosing Dell Technologies products, you get a powerful tool for developing your IT infrastructure, capable of meeting the most demanding needs. With these solutions, you can effectively manage resources, quickly adapt to new challenges, and focus on the strategic development of your business.

How to Understand What You Need

IT infrastructure can have a whole range of different management models. On one side, there is the traditional 3-tier architecture, with servers, storage, and networking equipment. Managing it requires a team of narrow specialists. On the other side, there is the DevOps model with automated infrastructure, where no one needs to worry about its daily operations.

All you need to choose the ideal model for your business processes is to contact ALESTA, a system integrator.

ALESTA is a Titanium Partner of Dell Technologies with all possible vendor competencies, including Services Sales, guaranteeing our qualification in the strategy of building and managing IT infrastructure.

Our qualified specialists will select the optimal solution for any task, offer the most favorable conditions, and provide consultations on building and modernizing your services at every project stage: from IT infrastructure audit to training your technical specialists to work with new systems.