Best Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions for VMware vSphere

CruzOC is a multi-vendor, scalable network management and IT operations tool that provides robust but easy-to-use netops. CruzOC's integrated, automated management features include performance monitoring, configuration management, lifecycle management, and lifecycle management of 1000s of vendors. Administrators can use CruzOC to automate their data center operations and critical resources. This will improve network and service quality, speed up network deployments and lower operating expenses. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management. Monitoring & Analytics, NMS -- health, NPM traffic, log, and change. Automation & configuration management -- compliance and security -- orchestration, provisioning. Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy. Deployments are available both on-premises and in the cloud.

StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and is used by thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea. SvSAN is a simple, 'set and forget' solution that ensures high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, supporting up to 1,000 2-node SvSAN clusters. IT professionals can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts. It delivers 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Plus, SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used.

Wouldn't that be great to manage your NetApp storage operations from VMware vCenter. You can now. NetApp solutions can help you streamline your virtual infrastructure and protect virtual workloads. NetApp solutions for virtual infrastructure management are integrated with VMware vCenter to provide end–to-end management for virtual machines (VMs), in VMware environments that utilize NetApp storage systems. Administrators can easily access the NetApp storage environment via the vCenter console. This allows them to perform tasks that increase both storage and server efficiency. The NetApp®, SolidFire®, VMware vCenter plug in allows you to harness the SolidFire storage platform's capabilities from within your vCenter environment. It provides deep integration, end to end Quality of Service, automatic storage performance allocation, and simplified management. Streamline your virtual infrastructure.

StarWind VSAN was designed for small businesses with limited IT budgets. It draws almost 100% of your existing raw storage IOPS -- no expensive hardware required. Licenses are transparent and flexible without any hidden fees or pitfalls. StarWind Virtual SAN ensures high uptime, fault tolerance and low latency starting with two nodes. If you don't wish to have a witness, you don't need one. Even if you lose a whole node or a single storage device, HDD, or SSD, your IT environment will not slow down. You can scale up, down, and out as you need it. You can manage your HCI clusters using a single StarWind web interface. No additional cost, our engineers will help migrate your existing workload to StarWind. Our solution was specifically designed to provide enterprise-grade features to SMBs that do not have corporate budgets. StarWind VSAN doesn't require witnesses and delivers all the promised benefits in just a two-node setup.

You can still enjoy the benefits of StarWind Hyperconverged Appliance without having to invest in our proprietary hardware. You can purchase the software, which is the exact set up of components that power our virtualization platform. It comes pre-packaged, ready to install on your own hardware. StarWind Virtual SAN is a storage virtualization solution developed in-house. It can be used with any supported hypervisor (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V or our own flavor KVM). Schedule a Virtual HCI Appliance Demo now! Our sales engineers are happy to assist you in learning about the full feature set of the virtual HCI Appliance, the estimated performance you can expect on your hardware, the limitations and certain support restrictions that apply to the virtual HCI Appliance compared to a physical appliance.