A hyperconverged infrastructure is a fully software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all elements of conventional hardware-defined systems.
At a minimum, an HCI includes the following:
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virtualized computing (a hypervisor)
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a virtualized SAN (software-defined storage area network)
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virtualized networking (software-defined networking)
To set up a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for a Hedvig environment, use the ovftool_hedvig tool and the govc utility to perform an open virtualization format (OVF) deployment.