Hello,
I'm trying to wrap my head around this idea, which I know have existed for so long, but only recently I have understand it more.
As Wikipedia defines it :
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI, also called a hyper-converged integrated system. HCIS) refers to integrating virtualization of storage and computing in a data center.[1]
For me now, virtualizing computing is the easy part, cause I reckon they mean as VMs with CPU and RAM, ...etc
I played a little with iSCSI and understood more on how storage can be remotely allocated via Asustor As1002T NAS, which actually had this functionality which was surprising being an affordable NAS.
But I still dont know how the PROs do it, currently I use the storage build in the server to store the VMs (DAS) I reckon if I understood this correctly Hyper-converged infrastructure must be that the storage be residing on different server, and the VMs stored on the storage server ? is that what they call Hyper-converged infrastructure, cause it allows more flexibility .
And can I do this with a home build NAS, like bunch of cheap disks and on top of them something like FreeNas or Openmediavaullt or openfiler (what do you recommend), and be storage server, then another server be KVM server, and the KVM will have the VMs located on the storage server would that qualify as Hyper-converged infrastructure
Someone hit me with some sense