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Figure 4-2: Hyperconvergence and enterprise cloud can help you to reinvent the IT budget.
Understanding disaggregation and the replacement cycle
With enterprise cloud based on hyperconverged infrastructure, you no longer have to worry about trying to manage resources separately. Instead, resources are aggregated and scaled together in a somewhat linear manner. Hyperconverged infrastructure vendors typically make it possible for end‐users to focus on needed resources as they add new capacity. For example, if you’ re running low on storage capacity, your new node can be storage heavy, although it will have CPU and RAM as well.
A disaggregated replacement cycle is far more difficult to manage than one based on aggregation, as is the case with hyperconverged infrastructure. As you seek to scale your enterprise cloud environment, you don’ t need to focus on individual resources. You simply worry about the needs of your workloads, and add nodes as necessary.
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