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
Manages your cluster and other Windows servers.
Connect to Azure hybrid services
Connects your cluster to Azure hybrid services for site recovery, monitoring, and more.
Azure Stack HCI
Pairs Windows Server 2019 virtualization and clustering technologies with validated hardware solutions by the partner of your choice, helping to take the guesswork out of tuning a software-defined datacenter.
Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD)
Pairs Windows Server 2016 virtualization and clustering technologies with validated hardware solutions by the partner of your choice, helping to take the guesswork out of tuning a software-defined datacenter.