Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) allows the convergence of physical storage onto industry-standard x86 servers, enabling a building block approach with scale-out capabilities. All key data center functions run as software on the hypervisor in a tightly integrated software layer – delivering services that were previously provided via hardware through software

HCI powered by vSAN consists of:
- vSphere: our industry-leading virtualization platform that provides server virtualization
- vSAN: the only vSphere-embedded storage solution that delivers flash-optimized, high-performance, hyper-converged storage for virtual machines
- vCenter Server: the unified and extensible management solution for vSphere environments