Nowadays, technology development is important for many organizations. It is one thing that will help increase the ability to compete. And to meet the needs of sustainable growth, organizations must use modern technology. Originally, when designing a data center, we will consider servers, storage, and networks so that the entire system can work as a single system. But when the system becomes larger and more complex, the difficulty of installation and maintenance is a problem that follows. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is therefore created by using Software Defined Storage technology to integrate Local Storage within each Physical Server together and working with Virtualization technology so that each Physical Server can access all the storage data in the data center. And create a virtual machine to be able to replace each other. And can also be expanded in a Scale-Out way. In summary, it is the use of Software Defined Storage and Virtualization technologies to work together.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) is a combination of Compute + Storage and uses Software-defined to manage Storage on each Server. It is suitable for use as a Private Cloud, installing VMware, Hyper-V or KVM systems that are Virtualization hosts. Normally, HCI systems will have more than 2 Physical Servers to provide Redundancy in case some Nodes are damaged.

Highlights of HCI

• Reduce the time and complexity of building or expanding a computer system (Infrastructure)
• Reduce costs with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
• Supports efficient Virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Supports Scale-Out expansion with built-in High Availability (HA) system