Converged & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

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Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and converged infrastructure (CI) group compute, storage, network and infrastructure management software into one optimized platform, helping organization streamline systems, reduce costs, accelerate deployments and increase resource utilization.

Whether you are just learning about the differences between HCI and converged infrastructure, need an environment to quickly compare and test solutions, or need help migrating data and applications to your platform, we have the resources to accelerate your journey.

Primer Series: What Is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)?

What is hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? Learn about the benefits of hyper-convergence and key considerations when choosing an HCI solution.

Jun 9, 2020

4 min read

Article Nutanix

To Converge and Hyper-Converge

WWT expert Sean Hicks discusses converged and hyper-converged industry trends and shares how organizations should approach their data center transformation.

Dec 21, 2021

3 min read

Article VMware vSAN

Gartner's HCI "Vague" Quadrant

Gartner's annual HCI Magic Quadrant has been released, and we've reviewed it.

Jan 5, 2020

7 min read

Briefing VMware vSAN

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Briefing

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offers organizations software-centric data center infrastructure that seamlessly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization technologies. This briefing explores the HCI market, who the top players are, what are the appropriate use cases, what differentiates the different vendors and commonly asked questions when evaluating or integrating HCI. As part of the briefing, we will also include a live demonstration of our on-demand HCI labs and explain how to access them.

Aug 18, 2020

2 min read

Article Nutanix

FUD to Fact: HCI Workshop

Learn how we're addressing "what makes you different or better" with fact-based HCI evaluations.

Jun 4, 2020

6 min read

Featured labs

Lab ATC

Dell EMC VxRail

Powered by VMware vSAN and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, VxRail is the only fully integrated, pre-configured, and pre-tested VMware hyper-converged appliance on the market. VxRail transforms HCI networking and simplifies VMware cloud adoption, while meeting HCI use cases, including support for the most demanding workloads and applications.

Jan 16, 2020

2 min read

Lab ATC

Cisco HyperFlex Lab

Cisco HyperFlex delivers complete hyperconvergence. It combines the software-defined networking and computing power of Cisco UCS with the Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform, and designed for simplicity. HyperFlex brings increased operational efficiency and adaptability to more workloads in your data center.

Jan 16, 2020

2 min read

Lab Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

Nutanix Prism / AHV

Nutanix is a cloud computing software company that produces hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances and software-defined storage. This particular hardware is the Nutanix branded SuperMicro hardware.

Oct 6, 2020

2 min read

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Case studies

Case Study VMware Cloud Foundation

Modernizing IT for West Coast Utility Provider

Learn how WWT helped a large utility provider with its aging infrastructure and multicloud journey.

Jun 29, 2022

4 min read

Case Study ATC

University Data Center: Optimize Space With Modern Performance and Scalability

After years of steady enrollment growth, a major university needed to transfer its data center to a smaller location to make room for additional student residences.

Apr 25, 2022

4 min read

Case Study Dell PowerEdge MX7000

WWT Refreshes Data Center for East Coast Healthcare Provider

IT modernization was critical for this healthcare provider to maintain patients' data and experience.

Feb 23, 2022

3 min read

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HCI for Edge Computing

Many customers request help with setting up and configuring different solutions in our Advanced Technology Center to help them make the the right technology decisions. Learn about a particular proof of concept (POC) performed to deploy and test four different 2-node, edge technologies.

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Event webinar

TEC37 Data Center Series E01: Why SDDC May Be Right for Your Organization

We are bringing back some of our favorite TEC37 episodes! Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) are designed to overcome the drawbacks of traditional IT infrastructure to offer the accelerated delivery of consistent data center services. Despite the performance gains, some organizations have been hesitant to adopt a SDDC environment. Tune into this TEC37 encore to find out more!

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Case Study ATC

University Data Center: Optimize Space With Modern Performance and Scalability

After years of steady enrollment growth, a major university needed to transfer its data center to a smaller location to make room for additional student residences.

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Lab Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware Cloud Foundation: HCX Migration Lab

This is a interactive introduction to migrating application workloads from an existing VMware vSphere 6.x environment to VMware Cloud Foundation utilizing the VMware HCX application mobility platform.

Apr 25, 2022

2 min read

Article Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

HCI Storage Services Trade-Offs Analyzed: Are They Worth It? – Part IV

Understand the implications and the trade-offs of enabling and/or changing storage services in your HCI environment. This article summarizes the previous three articles with suggestions for customers with respect to HCI environment expectations.

Apr 18, 2022

8 min read

Article Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

HCI Storage Services Trade-Offs Analyzed: Are They Worth It? – Part III

Understand the implications and the trade-offs of enabling and/or changing storage services in your HCI environment. This article digs into RAID5/Erasure Coding with comparisons between compression-only and deduplication and compression storage services enabled.

Apr 11, 2022

11 min read

Article Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

HCI Storage Services Trade-Offs Analyzed: Are They Worth It? – Part II

Understand the implications and the trade-offs of enabling and/or changing storage services in your HCI environment. This article digs into RAID1/RF2 with comparisons between compression only and deduplication and compression storage services enabled.

Apr 4, 2022

9 min read

Article Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

HCI Storage Services Trade-Offs Analyzed: Are They Worth It? - Part I

Multi-part series to help customers understand the implications and the trade-offs of enabling and/or changing storage services in an HCI environment.

Mar 28, 2022

7 min read

Case Study Dell PowerEdge MX7000

WWT Refreshes Data Center for East Coast Healthcare Provider

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Feb 23, 2022

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Article Dell Tech

What Is Dell APEX?

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Feb 17, 2022

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What is Dell Technologies VxRail?

Learn more about Dell Technologies' leading hyper-converged infrastructure platform, Dell VxRail and what makes it ideal for supporting today's hybrid cloud applications and Kubernetes workloads.

Feb 2, 2022

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Powering the Modern Software-Defined Data Center with the Dell Technologies PowerFlex

Learn more about the Dell Technologies PowerFlex platform and how it brings unparalleled agility and flexibility to the modern data center

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 Learn more about how HPE Intelligent Edge products and solutions bring automation, analytics, and security to the point of data creation.

Jan 30, 2022

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What Is HPE InfoSight and How Does It Work?

HPE InfoSight helps enterprises build a self-managing, self-healing and self-optimizing data center infrastructure with AIOps. Find out what it is and how it works.

Jan 26, 2022

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Article ESG Services

What is HPE High Performance Computing

HPE has made supercomputers and high-performance computing accessible to enterprises via its HPE HPC solutions. Read more to find out how these offerings can benefit your organization.

Jan 26, 2022

5 min read

Lab ATC

HPE-dHCI Lab

This lab demonstrates the ease of installation with HPE dHCI.

Jan 21, 2022

1 min read

Article Nutanix

To Converge and Hyper-Converge

WWT expert Sean Hicks discusses converged and hyper-converged industry trends and shares how organizations should approach their data center transformation.

Dec 21, 2021

3 min read

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Intel and WWT Partnership Video

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