Converged Infrastructure reduces deployment risk by offering vendor validated solutions that reduce guesswork and speed time to application deployment with trusted infrastructure platforms
The primary ways of deploying converged infrastructure are as a reference architecture and as a pre-racked configuration.
Reference architectures are pre-validated configuration guidelines that provide blueprints for type, quantity, and connectivity of converged system resources. This approach allows for rapid, trusted configurations that can leverage existing equipment. Compute, storage, and network resources are allocated and deployed according to vendor blueprint requirements and recommendations. With this approach, individual components can be easily scaled up or out as required by application administrators.
Pre-racked configurations have the compute, storage, and network components pre-installed in a data center rack. The components are often also pre-connected and cabled for rapid turn-up. This approach further accelerates deployments but often allows for scale-out only scalability.
