What Is Hyperconverged Storage?
Search Data Center, Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
Hyperconverged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, virtualization and networking technologies in one physical unit that's managed as a single virtualized system. This modern approach is one aspect of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
In HCI, various resources, including storage, are untethered from individual hardware, consolidated through virtualization and managed using software-defined networking (SDN). This makes hyperconverged storage more flexible, scalable, cost-effective and easy to manage compared to traditional storage solutions.
Why hyperconverged storage?
Hyperconverged storage is a type of software-defined storage (SDS) because each node has a software layer running virtualization software identical to all other nodes in the cluster. That software layer virtualizes the resources in the individual node and shares them with the other nodes in the cluster. This enables administrators to use resources as a single storage or compute pool.