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Introducing SmartX HCI in 360 Seconds
Do you find legacy infrastructure difficult to operate and maintain, requiring a lot of space and a significant initial investment? Explore how SmartX HCI and its 4 critical capabilities can address these issues.
Why SmartX HCI?
Choose SmartX HCI for its 4 core capabilities.
01.
Investment on Demand and Quick Resource Allocation
  • Start from 3 nodes
  • Scale out online by adding disks or nodes
  • Rapid deployment and scale-out within hours
02.
Support Multiple Hypervisors and Hardware
  • Support VMware ESXi and SmartX native hypervisor ELF
  • Compatible with industry-standard x86 servers
  • Support servers of different brands within one cluster
  • Provide all-in-one HCI appliances
03.
Support Mission-Critical Applications
  • Rich high availability features
  • End-to-end performance optimization
  • Network and security feature for “Zero Trust” strategy
  • Proven in production environments across financial services and other industries
04.
Intelligent Operations & Maintenance with Zero Downtime
  • “0” service disruption during scale-out and software and hardware upgrades
  • “0” manual operation in automatic data recovery and data rebalance after scale-out
  • “1” click in resource utilization, log collection, and other operations
  • “1” interface to manage multiple clusters and datacenters

Product Portfolio

Core Software

SMTX OS

The SmartX HCI's core software with built-in distributed block storage, native hypervisor, and a variety of advanced features including asynchronous replication, active-active clustering, backup and recovery, as well as network and security. Hypervisors from VMware and Citrix are also supported.

Learn about SMTX OS

Software and Hardware All-in-One Product

SMTX Halo HCI Appliance

Halo hyper-converged all-in-one appliances are based on dual-socket or quad-socket mainstream servers with built-in SMTX OS hyper-converged software, providing users with out-of-the-box all-in-one product delivery.

Learn about SMTX Halo HCI Appliance

Management Platform

CloudTower

CloudTower is the centralized, unified management software for SmartX infrastructure, providing rich management functions, user-friendly graphical interfaces (GUIs) and integrated interfaces for managing one or more hyper-converged clusters.

Learn about CloudTower
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SmartX Hyperconverged Infrastructure
A product brief of SmartX Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

Deployment

Options

1

Form of Delivery

2

Hypervisor

3

Management Platform

Pure software

Widely compatible with mainstream servers.

Flexible support for heterogeneous clusters.

The delivered product is the HCI software SMTX OS.

All-in-one appliance with pre-loaded SMTX OS

The overall service of both software and hardware makes the operations & maintenance easy and simple, by providing a complete, unified management.

The delivered product is the Halo Appliance.

Choose a suitable hardware platform to build a hyper-converged system?

Download the hardware compatibility list.

SmartX's Native Hypervisor ELF

You can have production-level virtualization capabilities

without extra fees.

The delivered product is the HCI software SMTX OS or Halo Appliance, without needing additional virtualization software.

VMware vSphere

Continue to use the complete ecosystem of VMware virtualization, while still enjoying the advantages of SmartX hyper-convergence.

The delivered product is SMTX OS or Halo Appliance, and users need to purchase additional VMware virtualization products.

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CloudTower is a unified management software for SmartX infrastructure and a required product component of the SmartX hyper-converged system.

Learn about CloudTower

Deployment Architecture

SmartX Native Virtualization Solution
VMware vSphere Virtualization Solution

Optimized Experience

Follow our interactive online tutorials and experience the simplicity and convenience from installation to operation brought by SmartX HCI.

Online Trial

Use SMTX Migration Tool to easily migrate VMware vSphere virtual machines to a cluster running SmartX's native hypervisor ELF.

Experience the fully automatic and non-disruptive upgrades. SmartX HCI helps you achieve 1-click software upgrades and dynamic hardware upgrades with zero downtime.

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Easily Build Modern Infrastructure with SmartX HCI

EASY Planning

  • Start from 3 nodes and on-demand investment

  • Reduce budget and risk

EASY Configuration

  • Choice of hypervisor (VMware or SmartX ELF)

  • Compatible heterogenous servers / existing in-house environment

  • Rich functions (e.g. virtualization, storage, network & security, management, active-active, asynchronous replication)

EASY Deployment

  • Complete installation and configuration within 2 hours

  • Resources go online within 1 day

  • Save more than 50% rack space

EASY Operation

  • Battle-tested stability in FSI production environment

  • End-to-end optimization drives ultimate performance

  • Large amount of cases to guarantee “production-readiness”

EASY O&M1

  • “0” service disruption during scale-out and software and hardware upgrades

  • “0“ manual operation in automatic data recovery and data rebalance after scaleout

  • “1” click in resource utilization, log collection, and other operations

  • “1” interface to manage multiple clusters and datacenters

Explore HCI Solutions for Multiple Scenarios
Virtualization
Flexible virtualization combined with powerful and stable distributed storage. Meet various performance, agility, and cost requirements.
Disaster Recovery
Ensure your business continuity with a reliable infrastructure and a flexible disaster recovery solution.
Remote/Branch Office and Edge
Simplify IT O&M in your remote, branch and edge sites with powerful, stable and economic SmartX HCI.
VDI
Make VDI more smooth and economic, easy to manage and scale out with stable and powerful SmartX HCI.