Composable Infrastructure

What is Composable Infrastructure?

Composable Infrastructure enables the orchestration and automatic provisioning of IT resources and supports IaC (Infrastructure-as-code). It uses software to create pools of IT resources including computers, networks, and storage. These can be physical IT resources (often referred to as CDI – Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure) or virtual IT resources. These resources are automatically configured to satisfy application processing requirements.

It rapidly configures and provisions infrastructure allocating GPUs, accelerators, network, and storage resources to physical servers to meet changing business needs. It also enables the real-time setup, configuration, deployment, and decomposition of new servers.

Composable infrastructure readily scales, composing and deploying only those resources that are needed, eliminating over-provisioning. As workloads are completed, resources are returned to their pools and can be quickly allocated to new servers as required. Its software can discover available resources, detect unused resources, or resource issues, and suggest steps to resolve them.

Composable infrastructure supports both traditional and cloud operations from a single infrastructure and runs bare-metal, virtual machines, containers, and cloud-native applications. It supports resource-intensive workloads such as web services, enterprise applications, database processing and analytics, machine learning, AI, dynamic cloud and edge computing, gaming, and VR applications.

Converged Infrastructure vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructure vs. Composable Infrastructure

All three infrastructures are on-premises data center solutions. Converged Infrastructure provisions IT resources using pre-configured building blocks, potentially resulting in over-provisioning. Hyperconverged infrastructure uses networking, virtual servers, and software redefined storage to create a large cluster controlled by a single hypervisor. It lowers hardware requirements and simplifies deployment. Composable infrastructure treats compute, network, and storage as pools of resources, offering the convenience of functioning like a public cloud, provisioning capacity through shared resources.

Composable Infrastructure Features

Composable Infrastructure will support the following features.

• Orchestrate and provision IT resources: compute, network, storage, accelerators, GPU
• On-demand, real-time provisioning
• Support bare-metal, virtual machines, container, and cloud
• Software templates to set up, provision, and update infrastructure
• Centralized management and control, using a single API
• Web-based interface

Composable Infrastructure Comparison

Consider the following when purchasing composable infrastructure.

Preparation: Establishing a composable infrastructure entails significant cost and effort. Before settling on a solution, identify what applications and services it will be supporting, and evaluate the platform’s processing power and latency.

Limitations: Most IT resources can be composed; however, some cannot be composed such as dynamic RAM (DRAM).

Pricing Information

Implementing a composable infrastructure is a complex undertaking, and the cost of a solution will be driven by its scale and the capabilities required. Obtain a price quote based upon your needs. Businesses should expect to spend at least $10,000 on their composable infrastructure, with that rate increasing as feature needs become more complex.