Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers: Demystifying HCI, 1st edition

Published by Cisco Press (January 18, 2019) © 2019

  • Sam Halabi
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Title overview

This book approaches the HCI topic from the point of view that any individual working this field needs to have enough knowledge in all the different areas such as storage, storage networking, compute, virtualisation, switching and routing and automation. The book will explain each area in the context of a legacy data centre design, detailing the problem statement for the particular technology and how HCI solves the problem and to what extent. Equipped with such knowledge the IT professional whether at a technical or management level will be well prepared to evaluate the need to move into the HCI and to find the best approach and timeline to move from a legacy data centre design to an HCI design.

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Table of contents

  • PART I: Basics of Data Center Networking and Storage
  • Chapter 1 Data Networks: Existing Designs
  • Chapter 2 Storage Networks: Existing Designs
  • PART II: Evolution in Host Hardware and Software
  • Chapter 3 Host Hardware Evolution
  • Chapter 4 Server Virtualization
  • Chapter 5 Software Defined Storage
  • PART III: Hyperconverged Infrastructure
  • Chapter 6 Converged Infrastructure
  • Chapter 7 HCI Functionality
  • Chapter 8 HCI Benefits and Use Cases
  • PART IV: Cisco HyperFlex
  • Chapter 9 Cisco HyperFlex
  • Chapter 10 Deploying, Provisioning, and Managing the HyperFlex Platform
  • Chapter 11 HyperFlex Workload Optimization and Efficiency
  • PART V: Alternative HCI Implementations
  • Chapter 12 VMware vSAN
  • Chapter 13 Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
  • Chapter 14 Open Source Compute and Storage
  • Part VI: Hyperconverged Networking
  • Chapter 15 Software-Defined Networking and Open Source
  • Chapter 16 VMware NSX
  • Chapter 17 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
  • Part VII: Public, Private, Hybrid, and Multicloud
  • Chapter 18 The Public Cloud
  • Chapter 19 The Private Cloud
  • Chapter 20 The Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud
  • Glossary
  • Index

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