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- In Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers, best-selling author Sam Halabi demystifies HCI technology, outlines its use cases, and compares solutions from a vendor-neutral perspective. He guides students through evaluation, planning, implementation, and management, helping them decide where HCI makes sense, and how to migrate legacy data centers without disrupting production systems.
- Easy reading with no marketing fluff or heavy technical jargon
- Progression through the chapters from easy to advanced
- First book to address storage, compute, virtualization, networking and automation in details and under one umbrella.
- Bridges the technology gap between the different IT departments (Storage, compute, networking and management)
- Coverage of latest HCI functionality
- Discusses Automation as it compares to Cloud offerings such as AWS
Integrate and automate storage, compute, networking, and virtualization with SDN
- Easy reading with no marketing fluff or heavy technical jargon
- Progression through the chapters from easy to advanced
- Comprehensive coverage of the topic at both a technical and business level
- First book to be released on the topic
- First book to address storage, compute, virtualization, networking and automation in details and under one umbrella.
- Bridges the technology gap between the different IT departments (Storage, compute, networking and management)
- Beneficial to IT professionals trying to evaluate whether to move in the HCI direction
- Beneficial to IT management, CIO, CTO evaluating HCI vs. public cloud
- Coverage of latest HCI functionality
- Discusses Automation as it compares to Cloud offerings such as AWS
Improve Manageability, Flexibility, Scalability, and Control with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) combines storage, compute, and networking in one unified system, managed locally or from the cloud. With HCI, you can leverage the cloud’s simplicity, flexibility, and scalability without losing control or compromising your ability to scale.
In
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers, best-selling author Sam Halabi demystifies HCI technology, outlines its use cases, and compares solutions from a vendor-neutral perspective. He guides you through evaluation, planning, implementation, and management, helping you decide where HCI makes sense, and how to migrate legacy data centers without disrupting production systems.
The author brings together all the HCI knowledge technical professionals and IT managers need, whether their background is in storage, compute, virtualization, switching/routing, automation, or public cloud platforms. He explores leading solutions including the Cisco HyperFlex platform, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), VMware’s NSX, the open source OpenStack and Open vSwitch (OVS) / Open Virtual Network (OVN), and Cisco CloudCenter for multicloud management.
As you explore discussions of automation, policy management, and other key HCI capabilities, you’ll discover powerful new opportunities to improve control, security, agility, and performance.
- Understand and overcome key limits of traditional data center designs
- Discover improvements made possible by advances in compute, bus interconnect, virtualization, and software-defined storage
- Simplify rollouts, management, and integration with converged infrastructure (CI) based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
- Explore HCI functionality, advanced capabilities, and benefits
- Evaluate key HCI applications, including DevOps, virtual desktops, ROBO, edge computing, Tier 1 enterprise applications, backup, and disaster recovery
- Simplify application deployment and policy setting by implementing a new model for provisioning, deployment, and management
- Plan, integrate, deploy, provision, manage, and optimize the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure platform
- Assess alternatives such as VMware vSAN, Nutanix, open source OpenStack, and OVS/OVN, and compare architectural differences with HyperFlex
- Compare Cisco ACI (Application- Centric Infrastructure) and VMware NSX approaches to network automation, policies, and security
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.