Organizations with distributed operations, such as those in banking, energy, or retail, must be able to offer the same infrastructure services in remote offices and branches as they do in their data center. However, they face specific challenges: less space and cooling capacity, and fewer (or no) technical staff on-site. Organizations in this situation need powerful services integrated onto a single, scalable server.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is designed to address these challenges by integrating compute and storage onto a single server, making it a suitable solution for remote locations, branch offices, and edge computing. It is also designed to enable organizations to centrally deploy and manage distributed infrastructures, allowing remote locations to benefit from high-performance systems without requiring large or highly specialized support staff.
The open-source, community-based approach avoids vendor lock-in of proprietary technologies and allows users to take advantage of the faster innovation fostered by open-source communities. It offers a hyperconverged infrastructure solution with software-defined components from a single vendor.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure leverages the Red Hat virtualization platform and software-defined storage to more efficiently manage an integrated compute and storage infrastructure across a wide range of hardware, servers, and networks. To achieve this, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is built on a set of integrated components designed to provide a unified experience from deployment to management. These include:
- Red Hat Virtualization: The award-winning enterprise virtualization platform based on KVM.
- Red Hat Gluster Storage: Highly scalable software-defined storage that can converge on the same hardware as Red Hat Virtualization hosts, eliminating the need for additional compute infrastructure and simplifying deployment.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The leading enterprise Linux platform provides a stable and reliable foundation.
- Ansible by Red Hat: Deployment and management are supported by the simple, powerful, and agentless open-source IT automation framework, providing automated installation and configuration from a central point.
