Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers: Demystifying HCI
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.
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers: Demystifying HCI
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.
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780134997926
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 01/18/2019
Series: Networking Technology
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 18 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Sam Halabi is a well-known industry figure with many years of experience in the field of information technology, multicloud, hyperconvergence, enterprise software, and data networking. Sam is a trusted advisor, capable of establishing close relationships with customers at the executive level, linking complex technologies with business benefits. Sam has worked at major companies in the U.S. and international markets, where he led sales, presales, consulting, marketing, and business development efforts targeting enterprises building scalable data centers. Sam is the founder of VirtuService (www.virtuservice.com), a provider of customer service and IT consulting in the areas of private, hybrid, public cloud, and multicloud. Sam has authored many Cisco Press books, including the bestseller Internet Routing Architectures and Metro Ethernet. Follow Sam Halabi on Twitter @VirtuService.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: Basics of Data Center Networking and Storage
  • Chapter 1 Data Networks: Existing Designs
  • Chapter 2 Storage Networks: Existing Designs
  • PART II: Evolution in Host Hardware and Software
  • Chapter 3 Host Hardware Evolution
  • Chapter 4 Server Virtualization
  • Chapter 5 Software Defined Storage
  • PART III: Hyperconverged Infrastructure
  • Chapter 6 Converged Infrastructure
  • Chapter 7 HCI Functionality
  • Chapter 8 HCI Benefits and Use Cases
  • PART IV: Cisco HyperFlex
  • Chapter 9 Cisco HyperFlex
  • Chapter 10 Deploying, Provisioning, and Managing the HyperFlex Platform
  • Chapter 11 HyperFlex Workload Optimization and Efficiency
  • PART V: Alternative HCI Implementations
  • Chapter 12 VMware vSAN
  • Chapter 13 Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
  • Chapter 14 Open Source Compute and Storage
  • Part VI: Hyperconverged Networking
  • Chapter 15 Software-Defined Networking and Open Source
  • Chapter 16 VMware NSX
  • Chapter 17 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
  • Part VII: Public, Private, Hybrid, and Multicloud
  • Chapter 18 The Public Cloud
  • Chapter 19 The Private Cloud
  • Chapter 20 The Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud
  • Glossary
  • Index
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