Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Introduction 

CTEC Solutions will partner with your business for success by leveraging best practice methodology under relevant process definitions. This allows for the positive completion of any necessary preparation to allow success for latter stages through design and planning, through to deployment, operations and optimisation.  

We realise that your business may not require the full suite of E2E process engagements, in which case you can have bespoke tailored solutions to suit your requirements, whether they be change, KTLO/BAU specifics or design and transformation centric. At CTEC Solutions we are cognisant of the need to be agile so can do as little or as much of the E2E as your business needs, in order to drive your business advantage. 

We have already successfully partnered with a wide range of organisations throughout North America & Europe. With the latest technology we don’t let distance of geographic location become the limiting factor. 

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), like that of Converged Infrastructure is a move away from the Siloed mentality, and devoted to minimising administrative overhead and IT sprawl while maximising efficiencies and ROI. Again policy driven centralised management takes center stage where resources are pooled and shared among the available applications. Automation and Orchestration also play their integral parts to make CI and HCI key enablers of modern cloud architectures. 

The key differences between CI and HCI are related to hardware composition, scalability, application, supported data services and their ability to meet specific requirements. 
 

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

• Software defined IT infrastructure 
     Application centric with management and control of entire system 
• Full functionality of Datacentre built on homogeneous appliances 
     Virtualised Compute, Storage and Network 
     1RU form factor common 
     Hardware not for modification
• Scale-out performance 
     Near unlimited set of building block appliances and high performance 
• Scale-out Storage 
      Efficient, scalable and performant 
• Internal Storage virtualised across cluster 
     Any portion can access stored data 
• Cluster Network virtualised 
     Any port or BW instantly available 
• Advanced Management Plane  
     Policy driven control with high degree of Security 
     Multi-tenancy and Segmentation  
     Manage on-prem and off-prem clusters simultaneously 
• Automation from top to bottom 
     API calls  
• Modern data services 
     Cloud replication, Deduplication, compression, erasure coding, integrated backups/recoveries, hypervisor conversion, WAN optimisation 

Deterministic performance is based on predictability of baselines as per initial requirements with appropriate sizing for current vs future.  

CTEC Solutions can help with a number of Converged Infrastructure elements (HCI) such as: 

• P2V consolidation and migrations 
• Security with Seg/uSeg 
• Hypervisor coexistence & integration 
• Software Switching enhancements 
• BCP and DR enhancements 
• Best practice design 
• Datacenter migrations 
• Greenfield and Brownfield implementations 
• Centralised management 
• Private-cloud integration 
• Public-cloud integration 

Here at CTEC we can look to provide further insight into the health of your systems and recommend remediation plans. We can engage to audit your current Infrastructure components and then guide you into how things should be and what the innovation possibilities are.  

There are no limits to the benefits of working with CTEC Solutions, so get in touch today. Let us partner for innovation and create your next business advantage.