Hyperconvergence is a new approach to IT infrastructure that can help with rapid data growth and rising customer expectations. What are the key value drivers of hyperconvergence? This paper reviews the top 10 benefits of using hyperconvergence in your IT infrastructure.

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Rapid data growth combined with rising customer expectations is forcing
businesses to rethink their approach to IT infrastructure. Enter Hyperconvergence.
Hyperconvergence integrates storage with compute resources to improve operational
efficiency and resource utilization, ease ongoing management and achieve new
levels of datacenter agility.
What are the key value drivers of hyperconvergence? Let’s break it down by
highlighting the top 10 benefits of hyperconvergence.
THE TOP 10 BENEFITS OF
HYPERCONVERGENCE:
TOP 10 BENEFITS
1. Hyperconvergence simplifies the deployment of highly available server
and storage clusters by working with standard data center server and storage
components.
2.By eliminating silos between servers and storage, hyperconvergence
reduces operational complexity and simplifies data center, application and
resource management.
3.It is easy to add more resources to a cluster without downtime, whether it’s
more compute or additional capacity. What’s more, storage is never orphaned
in “islands of underutilization.”
4.Hyperconvergence is built on a distributed file system that is purpose built
and optimized for scale-out virtual machine environments.

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THE TOP 10 BENEFITS OF
HYPERCONVERGENCE:
TOP 10 BENEFITS cont.
5. Data management capabilities—snapshots and clones—are built into the
distributed file system, and run transparently without affecting performance.
6. Data optimization capabilities—global inline deduplication and
inline compression—are also built in, and work automatically to improve
storage efficiency
7.Operators can improve performance and capacity by scaling the caching
tier independently from the persistent tier, as needed.
8.Hyperconvergence is self-healing; data is mirrored to multiple disks
and a rebalancing engine keeps applications running while failed hardware
is replaced
9.Software-based hyperconvergence is easy to implement and easy to
learn, and administrators can manage it at the VM level using tools like
VMware’s vCenter.
10. The economics of software-based hyperconvergence can be
transformative, with low-cost, low-risk annual licensing that lets data centers
experiment with this new technology.