Hyperconverged Infrastructure
IT infrastructures are no longer considered just business-supporting cost centers. They have become critical, business-driving profit centers that fuel Innovation, differentiation, competitive insights, and new possibilities.To get there, IT is moving away from single-purpose, siloed infrastructure to modern, cloud architectures that are self-monitoring, self-optimizing, and self-healing.
Why HCI ?
Think of a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) platform as a “cloud in a box.” Essentially, it combines all the essential components of a modern cloud—processing power, memory, storage, networking, along with software for virtualization, automation, and orchestration—into a single server. These platforms can be easily scaled by adding more units, allowing organizations to effortlessly achieve the cloud’s flexibility, cost-efficiency, scalability, and innovation that many businesses are aiming for.
Pinakastra as an OEM, leveraging its expertise to create a range of hardware integrated with its end to end cloud software stack, delivers engineered turnkey cloud product & solutions to customers.
HCI Deployment Growth is Exploding
In today’s data-driven world, organizations require IT infrastructure that can not only process information but also move it rapidly. To achieve this, high-performance compute performance, scalability, easy to manage platforms, fast I/O, networking, and storage are all essential. By implementing these features, businesses can optimize their data centers for efficiency, scalability, and future growth.
| Technical Specifications | Cirrus (Model -PIN-HCI-16-256-12) | Stratus (Model -PIN-HCI-24-512-24) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Dual Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 Processor | Dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 Processor |
| Cores/Threads/Cache/Base Frequency | 8C/16T/25M/2.8GHz | 12C/24T/30M/2.5GHz |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte | Gigabyte |
| RAM | 256 GB (ECC) (DDR4) | 512 GB (ECC) (DDR4) |
| GPU | None | None |
| NVMe (M.2) | 256GB x2 (RAID 1) | 256GB x2 (RAID 1) |
| Raid Controller | 9361-8i (12GBPS) | 9361-8i (12GBPS) |
| HDD | 4TB x3 = 12TB (RAID5) | 6TB x4 = 24TB (RAIDS5) |
| NIC1 | 1GBPS (Y) | 1GBPS (Y) |
| NIC2 | 10GBPS (N) | 10GBPS (N) |
| PSU | Dual Power Supply (Y) | Dual Power Supply (Y) |
| Form Factor | 1U | 1U |
| No. of Bays | 4 | 4 |
| vCPU | 256 | 512 |
| RAM | 384 GB DDR4 | 768 GB DDR4 |
| Storage (Block, Object & FileSystem) | 4 TB Unified Storage | 8 TB Unified Storage |
| Connection | 4 TB Unified Storage | 1 GBit/s-Port |
| Average VM Size | 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM & 20 GB HDD | |
| Total Virtual Servers | 384 | 384 |
| Category | AltoCumulus (Model -PIN-HCI-48-1024-48) | CirroCumulus (Model -PIN-HCI-128-1024-32) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8259cl Processor | Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Processor |
| Cores/Threads/Cache/Base Frequency | 24C/48T/35.75M/2.4GHz | 64C/128T/256M/2.25GHz |
| Motherboard | Asus | Asus |
| RAM | 1TB GB (ECC) (DDR4) | 1 TB (ECC) (DDR4) |
| GPU | None | None |
| NVMe (M.2) | 256GB x2 (RAID 1) | 256GB x2 (RAID 1) |
| Raid Controller | 9361-8i (12GBPS) | 9361-8i (12GBPS) |
| HDD | 12TB X 4 = 48TB (RAID5) | 8TB X 4 (SSD) (RAID5) |
| NIC1 | 10GBPS (N) | 1GBPS (Y) |
| NIC2 | 10GBPS (N) | 10GBPS (N) |
| PSU | Dual Power Supply (Y) | Dual Power Supply (Y) |
| Form Factor | 1U | 1U |
| No.Of Bays | 4 | 4 |
| vCPU | 768 | 2048 |
| RAM | 1024 GB DDR4 | 768 GB DDR4 |
| Storage (Block, Object & FileSystem) | 16 TB Unified Storage | 10 TB Unified Storage |
| Connection | 1 GBit/s-Port | 1 GBit/s-Port |
| Average VM Size | 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM & 20 GB HDD | 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM & 20 GB HDD |
| Total virtual Servers | 384 | 384 |
| Technical Specifications | StratDCumulus (Model -PIN-H0-32-768-48) |
|---|---|
| CPU | Dual Intel Xeon GOLD 6149 Processor |
| Cores/Threads/Cache/Base Frequency | 16C/32T/22M/3.1GHz |
| Motherboard | MR91FSO |
| RAM | 768 GB (ECC) (DDR4) |
| GPU | None |
| NVMe (M.2) | 256GB x2 (RAID 1) |
| Raid Controller | 9361-8i (12GBPS) |
| HDD | 12TB x 4 = 48TB (RAIDS) |
| NIC1 | GBPS (Y) |
| NIC2 | OGBPS (N) |
| PSU | Dual Power Supply (Y) |
| Form Factor | U |
| No. of Bays | 4 |
| vCPU | 512 |
| RAM | 768 GB DDR4 |
| Storage (Block, Object & FileSystem) | 16 TB Unified Storage |
| Connection | 1GBit/s-Port |
| Category | Technologies | Use Case(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Guest Operating System | Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Rocky Linux etc.) | Analytics and Big Data, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Database and Business Critical Apps, End-User Computing/Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Enterprise Cloud, Files and Objects, High Performance, high-performance multithread architecture workloads (VDI, database), IT Apps, Private Cloud, Rack Dense VDI, Server Virtualization. |
| Databases | MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, MariaDB, Redis, CouchDB | |
| Web Servers | Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, Lighttpd, Cherokee | |
| Application Servers | WildFly, Apache Tomcat, JBoss EAP, GlassFish, Payara Server | |
| Directory Services | OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, Apache Directory Server, 389 Directory Server | |
| Docker Containers | Docker, Podman, Containerd, rkt, Kubernetes, Swarm | |
| Big Data | Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache HBase | |
| Development Tools | Git, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code, Atom | |
| DevOps Tools | Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm | |
| Mobile App Development | React Native, Flutter, Apache Cordova, Xamarin, PhoneGap | |
| Engineering Software | FreeCAD, Blender, OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, KiCad, OpenFOAM | |
| Cybersecurity Tools | Wireshark, Snort, Metasploit, OpenVAS, Suricata, OSSEC |