1. Low Initial Investment Cost

The HCI architecture allows the creation of a lightweight virtualization platform with just three servers, which reduces initial investment costs. By using software-only and hardware decoupling solutions, it allows users to select the IT infrastructure and maximizes the utilization of existing IT equipment.

2. Support for Diverse Businesses

HCI offers not only computing, storage, and network resources at the IaaS layer but also containers, microservices, middleware, GPUs, and data based on the specific IT requirements of business systems. It supports traditional, agile, and innovative businesses throughout enterprises’ digital transformation.

3. Saving in Time and Effort

In addition to unified management of computing, storage, network, and security resources, Sangfor HCI provides unified multi-cloud management, What-You-Draw-Is-What-You-Get, network traffic visualization, and business monitoring modules to streamline O&M, freeing up manpower to focus on business innovation.

4. Flexible Scalability and Upgrades

The HCI architecture allows online, seamless scale-out and scale-up, only requiring the purchase of general servers and relevant virtualization software licenses for rapid resource expansion. Additionally, it can easily adapt to the evolving needs of business development, such as multi-cluster deployment, active-active data center, and geo-redundant 3-DC.