Hyper-converged infrastructure documentation

Consolidate software-defined compute, storage, and networking into one cluster to provide high-performance, cost-effective, and easily scalable virtualization.

Hyper-V

• Virtualizes server hardware, enabling you to run virtual machines across servers in a hyper-converged cluster.

Storage Spaces Direct

• Virtualizes storage hardware, enabling you to create volumes on top of a virtualized pool of drives spread across servers in a hyper-converged cluster.

Failover Clustering

• Groups multiple servers together so that workloads such as virtual machines can run on any server in the cluster, load-balancing and failing over gracefully between servers.

Software Defined Networking

• Virtualizes your network hardware, enabling you to dynamically create and manage networks and policies that abstract your workloads from underlying physical networks.

Windows Admin Center

• Virtualizes server hardware, enabling you to run virtual machines across servers in a hyper-converged cluster.

Connect to Azure hybrid services

• Connects your cluster to Azure hybrid services for site recovery, monitoring, and more.

Azure Stack HCI

• Azure Stack HCI is a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) operating system delivered as an Azure service.