Best Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions in the Middle East

CruzOC is a scalable multi-vendor network management and IT operations tool for robust yet easy-to-use netops. Key features of CruzOC’s integrated and automated management include performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle management for 1000s of vendors and converging technologies. With CruzOC, administrators have implicit automation to control their data center operations and critical resources, improve network and service quality, accelerate network and service deployments, and lower operating costs. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management. NMS, monitoring & analytics -- health, NPM, traffic, log, change. Automation & configuration management -- compliance, security, orchestration, provisioning, patch, update, configuration, access control. Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy. Deployments available on-premise and from the cloud.

StorMagic SvSAN is simple storage virtualization. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea. SvSAN is a simple, 'set and forget' solution that enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters. It gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 servers and storage types, even mixed within a cluster. Plus, SvSAN eliminates downtime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades

Our goal is to give our partners and customers the solutions they need for their unique digital transformation journeys. Across industries, companies must leverage technology to deepen customer experience and create new market opportunities. At its foundation, that requires an evolving IT infrastructure to meet changing demands and innovate faster. We eliminate the complexities of virtual infrastructure management by offering blazing fast, on-demand VMs, a simple API, and an easy-to-use self-service control panel for customers, on top of a powerful administration control panel for service providers. SolusIO provides a set of powerful virtualization technologies with support for hypervisor and container-based virtualization. Manage KVM virtual machines from one central point. Support for OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, and others will be added in the upcoming releases.

Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility.

Huawei’s FusionCube hyper-converged infrastructure brings compute, storage, network, virtualization, and management into one tightly integrated package to achieve high performance, low latency, and rapid deployment. FusionCube’s built-in distributed storage engines enable deep convergence of compute and storage. These Huawei-developed engines eliminate performance bottlenecks while allowing for flexible capacity expansion. FusionCube supports industry mainstream databases and virtualization software. Huawei FusionCube 1000 HyperVisor&Data is data storage infrastructure based on converged architecture. It pre-integrates a distributed storage engine, virtualization software, and cloud management software to support on-demand resource allocation and linear expansion.

NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware vSphere is a vCenter Server plug-in that integrates with VMware environments to provide end-to-end lifecycle management for virtual machines utilizing NetApp storage systems. By offering visibility and management capabilities directly within the vCenter console, VSC enables administrators to perform tasks that enhance both server and storage efficiency. Key features include provisioning and cloning of datastores, optimization of ESXi host configurations according to NetApp best practices, and monitoring of storage performance and health. Additionally, VSC includes the VASA Provider for managing VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) and the Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager, facilitating robust data protection and disaster recovery solutions.

The prevailing assumption is that containers are ideal only for stateless applications. However, many organizations are seeing the value of containerizing databases for many of the same reasons that they containerize their web applications, the ability to release more frequently, the ease of moving from development to staging to production, and the portability to run the same workload on any infrastructure. In fact, databases have emerged as a top use case for container adoption in a recent Diamanti survey. Cloud Native infrastructure inherently enables stateful applications to take advantage of elasticity and flexibility. However, catastrophic events like hardware failures, power failures, natural disasters or other unexpected events can cause loss of data for an extended period of time. This makes recovery tricky for stateful applications. One of the important requirements for cloud native storage is to seamlessly recover from such catastrophic events.

The easiest way to deploy OpenShift applications and watsonx. Fusion is available as two flexible options to support your hybrid cloud needs. Fusion HCI System provides a fully integrated, turnkey platform for running and maintaining all of your on-premises Red Hat OpenShift applications. Fusion software runs anywhere Red Hat OpenShift runs—on public cloud, on-premises, bare metal and virtual machines. Integrates hardware, Red Hat OpenShift and data services, eliminating compatibility issues and reducing setup time enabling you to get your containerized applications up and running in record time enabling faster innovation and reduced time-to-market. Simplifies infrastructure and data services for OpenShift applications by enabling platform engineers to centrally manage OpenShift, streamline operations, optimize resource utilization and reduce operational complexities and costs.

The Sunlight Dashboard, a component of NexVisor HCI, provides a graphical management interface onto any Sunlight cluster - including resource-limited Edge clusters. It provides Highly Available local resource management on a single pain of glass. Manage all of your VMs on a local Sunlight cluster, with fine-grained control of your resources. Resource groups provide control to meet VM requirements. Ultra fine-grained control of performance when needed or simplicity when not needed. Maximum utilisation of constrained Edge resources. Dashboard automatically failsover in the event of server failure. Sunlight is designed with security at its core. All components of the Sunlight stack are hardened. Thanks to Sunlight’s fine grained CPU and memory allocation it is possible to physically guard against CPU memory exploits. Control of IO interfaces allows you to separate content and network traffic so there is no sharing of physical drives or network physical interfaces.

Cisco's collaboration with Nutanix delivers a comprehensive hyper converged infrastructure solution that integrates computing, storage, and networking resources into a unified, software-defined platform. This partnership leverages Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware and Intersight management platform alongside Nutanix's software capabilities to provide a scalable and efficient HCI environment. The solution offers zero-touch operations from the data center to the edge, enhancing resilience through natively integrated networking and allowing independent scaling of compute and storage resources to meet evolving application needs. It supports various configurations, including Cisco's C-Series rack servers and the modular X-Series systems, catering to diverse enterprise requirements. Management is streamlined via Cisco Intersight, enabling deployment, configuration, and oversight of hyper-converged systems from a single interface accessible anytime and anywhere.

StorMagic SvHCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution that incorporates hypervisor, software-defined storage, and virtualized networking into a single software stack. With SvHCI, your organization can virtualize your entire infrastructure without the significant financial commitment required by other solutions on the market. SvHCI provides high availability with a unique cluster architecture of just 2 nodes. Data is synchronously mirrored between the two nodes, meaning an exact copy is always available on either node. If one node goes offline, the StorMagic witness maintains the cluster's health, keeping stores open, production lines moving and services running until the failed node is restored. A single StorMagic witness located anywhere in the world can service 1000 StorMagic clusters simultaneously.