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.