Hyperconverged Infrastructure Explained

A hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) promises to reduce costs in your datacentre and offer simplified management to system administrators. This video explains what hyperconvergence is, and how it compares to traditional 3-tier or converged infrastructures.
We will cover the relative pros and cons of hyperconvergence, and whether you should consider a hyperconverged infrastructure instead of separate hypervisors and storage area networks (SAN).

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Video timestamps:
00:00 - Traditional 3-Tier Infrastructure
02:50 - Converged Infrastructure
04:12 - Hyperconverged Infrastructure

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[georgesmith]

Thank you, you are the only one who talks about the drawbacks, all the vendors only talk about benefits

[georgesmith]

That was a super clear and well visualized explanation and by far the best I have ever seen - watched 17 other videos and read a bunch of blogs that only made hyper convergence sound more confusing. I would give 10 thumbs-ups, if I could.

[Steamrick]

Very well explained.
Personally I dislike hyperconverged because of the exact reasons you said: You can't just easily upscale a singular resource type and if things go wrong, they can go apocalyptically wrong and suddenly you need to be an expert on every part of the chain.

[stephenremillard]

Great video. Hyper converge vendors are currently trying to shame traditional 3 tiers architecture as if it was obsolete and last century's tech.

[betocarvalho]

I'm not a developer nor a network engineer, come from the business side, and this was clear as crystal. Great explanation. Also, I came here for explanation on hyperconverged, and low and behold, you also do converged! 👏👏👏

[balboa]

Very good video. Well described without making it too complex. I really hate when things go wrong and only help available is an expert...that scares me the most about HCI.

[thexavier]

This was perfect. All key points touched without too much complexity.

[BobbyRotten]

Just started a new job in Philly selling on behalf of Cisco and this was super helpful to me. Still hard to understand but I am glad you posted this. Thank you so much...

[MR-vjdn]

Learning from this video I understand now that HCI is not for me and my customers (I'm an IT admin). Thank you for taking the time to explain.

[ImmutableTech]

Great video, except for one thing. I can tell you as an admin for hyper-converged infrastructure that your negative was Ill-informed. Upgrading storage is surprisingly easy with technologies like CEPH. Networking is where the real headache comes in.. Literally at every level. It was not expensive.. It's just a headache

[theodorechan]

Thanks for the very detailed & visualized explanations! Been on Google for hours and this is the best clarification by far!

[bytecode]

Awesome video. Thanks man, I wish you all the best for every day of your life!

[MuthukumarKB]

Very good, simple explanation taking into account the traditional infrastructure and how the solutions have evolved. Thanks 👍👍

[complex_variation]

Hey I want to thank you I love learning and your videos have been great!!! Keep it up!

[mkledits]

Great video, and you explain so well! This helped a LOT!

[Alexey]

7:05
Same performance - HCI is usually faster due to local reads
Same resilience - HCI usually has faster rebuild time with less impact on performance as it is handled in a distributed manner

[TechEnthusiastInc]

Awesome video, thanks! Great to meet a fellow enterprise tech enthusiast. 😊 Subscribed.

[nekochan]

Thank you for the explanation. Very easy to understand!

[lukeleung]

Very good explanaton!! I want to hear more intrastucture knowledge from you!

[scottsavoury]

This is a really useful and insightful overview!