[Daily ask] why do the virtualization solution design, the requirements involved in hardware must be in the virtualization vendor to provide a hardware compatibility list inside

at present, the "Hyper-integration scheme" is better, the traditional data center gradually transition to the new data center, so-called traditional data center HDDC refers to the data center superimposed by the hardware resources, and the new data center SDDC refers to the software-defined data center, Mainly refers to software-defined computing, software-defined storage and software-defined networks, the pursuit of a set of data center software to achieve centralized management and control of the entire data center, to achieve the automation and self-service of operations and applications.

Now, in the domestic market compared to the fire of "ultra-integrated Solutions" manufacturers for Nutanix and VMware. Here we take VMware's Vsan solution, its design must pay attention to hardware compatibility, if its hardware resources are not in the VMware HCL, you may encounter some unexpected problems. On the HCL we need to be aware of the following aspects:

1. Selecting hardware that is not in the Hardware Compatibility list does not necessarily mean that the virtualized environment cannot be deployed;

2. If a virtualized environment is deployed with hardware that is not in the Compatibility List, then the virtualization vendor does not provide technical support after the problem occurs later.

3. Even if a virtualized environment is deployed on hardware that is not on the compatible list, a normal upgrade may not be possible if the later virtualization vendor upgrades the software.

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[Daily ask] why do the virtualization solution design, the requirements involved in hardware must be in the virtualization vendor to provide a hardware compatibility list inside