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58 Containers For Dummies, HPE and Docker Special Edition These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Traditional servers There will always be a need for traditional infrastructure approaches in which organizations buy servers, storage, and networking solutions and build their own data center environ- ments. HPE sells the world's most popular line of servers. The ProLiant server lineup can easily support your Docker needs. Hyperconverged solutions Earlier in this book, you learned that containers can run on bare- metal servers, in virtual machines, or even in other containers. With a hyperconverged infrastructure as a container foundation, you'll be running containers in a virtualized environment. In hyperconvergence, all workloads run virtualized. That is simply the nature of the platform. There are three characteristics that define hyperconverged infrastructure: » Fluid pools/flexible ratio of compute and storage » Native software defined storage/virtual storage appliance » High-density internal storage Hyperconverged infrastructure can be an ideal target for your container initiative if you need something a bit easier to manage than traditional infrastructure but don't want to make the jump to composable infrastructure. In the hyperconverged infrastructure area, HPE makes available a built-for-enterprise hyperconverged infrastructure solution based on SimpliVity OmniStack software. The HPE SimpliVity 380 with OmniStack provides customers with a container host that provides excellent data efficiency via dedu- plication and compression, built-in backup and disaster recovery capabilities, and simple, centralized management. HPE Synergy Composable Infrastructure solutions HPE Synergy is the first solution to support composable infra- structure. The HPE Synergy product line delivers on a series of key architectural principles: