17. CAN I JUST
MANAGE MY
CURRENT SAN
THROUGH HCI?
It's possible, but it wouldn't help you simplify your
operations! Hyperconverged infrastructure makes
your SAN obsolete; you remove an entire layer of
complexity when you move to HCI. Rather than
managing storage arrays, potentially from multiple
vendors requiring multiple skill sets, your storage
becomes a component of your virtual infrastruc-
ture with hyperconvergence.
16. IS IT A GOOD
FIT FOR LARGE
AND SMALL
ENVIRONMENTS?
For smaller companies, hyperconverged
infrastructure eliminates the silos of separate
management and troubleshooting for servers,
storage, networking, and virtualization.
No separate support costs, support
teams, or licensing costs.
For larger environments, you eliminate the risk of
going "all-in" with a new solution by starting small
and scaling out a node at a time and adding more
workloads—all the while making sure the solution
makes sense as you go. Each node contains all the
resources required to scale, so it's simple yet perfectly
linear since nodes are built to match your needs.
