Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers: Demystifying HCI, 1st edition

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

  • Sam Halabi
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Title overview

In Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers, best-selling author Sam Halabi demystifies HCI technology, outlines its use cases, and compares solutions from a vendor-neutral perspective. He guides students through evaluation, planning, implementation, and management, helping them decide where HCI makes sense, and how to migrate legacy data centers without disrupting production systems.

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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