Can Hyper Converge System Replace SAN

Abstract: Storage Area Network and Hyper Converge System are the domains which deal with various storage management. A hyperconverged infrastructure is challenging the data center model of standalone servers networked to a scale-up storage array. which seems to solve many provisioning problems and act as little islands of capability for ERP, SharePoint, VDI & also act platform for utility computing, grid computing, shared services, SOA or the cloud.  A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a secure high-speed data transfer network that provides access to consolidated block-level storage. An SAN makes a network of storage devices accessible to multiple servers. SAN devices appear to servers as attached drives, eliminating traditional network bottlenecks. Virtual storage area networks (virtual SAN, server SAN or SAN-free storage) use locally attached flash and hard disk drive storage. Keywords: HCI,SAN