{"id":7,"date":"2015-07-15T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wpnux.godaddy.com\/personal-blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-08-21T08:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:17:47","slug":"hpic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techlescope.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/15\/hpic\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPER CONVERGENCE FOR EFFICIENT AND AGILE DATA CENTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/techlescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tebfqdanuxs-e1692602259814-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"a close up of a bunch of wires in a rack\" class=\"wp-image-88\" style=\"width:753px;height:502px\" width=\"753\" height=\"502\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">A google search of the term hyper convergence will bring you about 2 million results. There are thousands of tweets around <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"SpellingError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">hashtags.Industry<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0witnessed a number of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"SpellingError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">startups<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0focused only on\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"SpellingError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">hyperverged<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0systems.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW265625667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW265625667 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW265625667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW265625667 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">In just about 3-5 years industry witnessed a number of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">start up<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0OEMs growing exponentially to billion dollar\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">enterprises .<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0All the major hardware OEMs are selling at least one\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"SpellingError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">hyperconvrged<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0product in the market. Clearly\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"SpellingError SCXW265625667 BCX0\">hyperconvrgence<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0appears to be the future of data center hosting technologies.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW265625667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW265625667 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW265625667 BCX0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And of course!!<\/strong><br \/>So much has been spoken, written, blogged and tweeted about hyperconvergence already. So I promise not to repeat and reinvent the wheel. I shall instead be focusing on the technology adoption aspects. However, in this first section of a series of blogs about hyper convergence adoption we shall spend a few words to bring up to speed , those readers who has not yet had a chance or patience to look at some of the incredible writings about the technology of future Data center hosting<\/p>\n<p>Hyper convergence essentially means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A handful of server blades and a few of Terra Bytes of hard disks capacity integrated in a small form factor rack mountable unit<\/li>\n<li>A Software defined abstraction that enables scale out of storage volumes carved out of these physical disks across several, sometimes hundreds of such small units.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A virtualization clusters formed by server blades and the software defined storage volumes across these units<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A smart management software that provides tight integration with the hypervisor and enables enhanced protection of workload and data across the entire cluster irrespective of their physical location<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does hyperconvergance make a difference?<\/strong><br \/>Let us look at it with a small analogy of two freight trains travelling from a small industrial town to a port across the country<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the journey, train just a carries few container cabins. As the train progresses its journey and passes via it&#8217;s stops more load &#8211; more container cabins are added, eventually has a long line of container cabins as it reaches the end point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Traditional Train<br \/><\/strong>From starting point till the end The Traditional Train rides with a very large engine-cabin capable of pulling the entire load. So much of fuel is spent running a large engine for thousands of mile even when it is just transporting just a few tons of freight.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techlescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/traditional-train.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Hyperconverged Train<\/strong><br> Now let us look at a different option. A small medium powered engine is used to pull the containers at the starting point. It consumes much less energy and less pollution and so on.. As the journey progresses and more load is added to the train additional engine-cabins are added to the train just when it is needed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techlescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hpic-train.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a><strong>About hyper-convergence<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hyper-convergence takes the converged systems to the next level by adopting a software centric architecture to combine compute, storage and network technologies in a single physical unit based on commodity hardware supplied and supported by one vendor. Each of these 2U rack unit system may contain one or more blade servers and auto tiered storage pools containing high performance SSD drives and high capacity disk drives. Additional capacity can be supplemented by adding new blades and disks or 2U units to the system. Adding new blade servers (nodes) add compute capacity to the hypervisor cluster and the storage capacity is added to the existing storage pool expanding the distributed file system with network level redundancy for data. Essentially the killer element that hyper-converged systems provide here is the intelligent distributed file system with network level redundancy also providing enterprise storage features such as automated Tiering and deduplication capabilities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techlescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hpic-1024x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hyper-convergence allows Scaling out of integrated systems from single 2U unit to a multi petabyte distributed file system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Major OEMs of hyper-converged systems\ntoday are Nutanix, Simplivity(now part of HPE) and Scale IO.&nbsp; Most functionality provided by these\ntechnologies is very much alike; with a few differences in their internal\narchitecture and philosophy. For instance, Scale IO uses its own hypervisor\nwhile Nutanix and Simplivity based systems use OEM hypervisors such as VMware\nESX, Hyper V or KVM. Similarly, Scale IO and Nutanix has a fully software\ndriven architecture while Simplivity relies on a hardware accelerator adapter\nfor deduplication functionalities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imperative benefits an enterprise can\nderive out of deploying hyper-convergence based data center are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>It allows starting with very small-lean kit and\neventually scaling out to a multi petabyte system of thousands of virtual\nmachines, as the requirement grows<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Software defined and yet simplified architecture\nallows a much faster time to market.&nbsp;\nTypically hyper-converged systems are deployed in a few hours while\nconventional discrete systems based infrastructure takes several weeks from\ndelivery to deployment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simplified management of multi geo spread\nsystems with a central intuitive console<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Better control of IS infrastructure budget with\nmore predictable and granular increments of capacity additions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Network based RAID or data redundancy enables\nImproved data availability <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With all these benefits in place, any\nplan for introduction of hyper-converged systems cannot overlook the following\nrisks and concerns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Hyper-convergence is a relatively new technology\nin the market. Introduction of any new technology in to an enterprise estate\nwithout proper planning, service distribution and service introduction measures\ncan lead to a calamitous end state<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vendors and OEMs supplying hyper converged are\nyounger organizations which are still growing to a larger global presence and\nsupport organisms. Deployment of hyper-converged systems without a proper\nsupport mechanism and commitment from the chosen supplier will be only adding\non to the existing challenges of DC management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">\n\n\n\n\n\nHowever,\nHyper-convergence has have proven its value as a technology of choice for most\nof the technology giants such as google, AWS etc. who have adopted it for a\nwhile now. With a spectrum of choices of technology providers and gradually\nincreasing adoption from enterprises, very clearly hyper-convergence is the data\ncenter technology of tomorrow. An earlier adoption of this technology means a\nsmoother transition to hyper-converged DCs in future for an enterprise\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A google search of the term hyper convergence will bring you about 2 million results. There are thousands of tweets around hashtags.Industry\u00a0witnessed a number of\u00a0startups\u00a0focused only on\u00a0hyperverged\u00a0systems.\u00a0\u00a0In just about 3-5 years industry witnessed a number of\u00a0start up\u00a0OEMs growing exponentially to billion dollar\u00a0enterprises .\u00a0All the major hardware OEMs are selling at least one\u00a0hyperconvrged\u00a0product in the market. Clearly\u00a0hyperconvrgence\u00a0appears to be the future of data center hosting technologies.\u00a0 And of course!!So much has been spoken, written, blogged and tweeted about hyperconvergence already. So I promise not to repeat and reinvent the wheel. I shall instead be focusing on the technology adoption aspects. 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