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1. General
1.1 What is AltosCloud HCI?
ANSWER: AltosCloud HCI is a fully HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) platform optimized to provide high-
performance IO for network and storage traffic to and from virtual machines or containers.
The AltosCloud HCI is based on Sunlight NexVisor HCI and composed of the following parts.
• Sunlight NexVisor, a lightweight high-performance virtualization hypervisor
• Sunlight SDN (Software-defined network)
• Sunlight SDS (Software-defined storage)
• Sunlight Dashboard, an easy-of-use interface for managing the cluster
• SIM (Sunlight Infrastructure Manager), a central dashboard to manage clusters from anywhere
• Sunlight Marketplace, provides common pre-Installed application recipes for rapid deployment
• Altos BrainSphere
TM
Server, including Altos BrainSphere
TM
R320 F5, R389 F4, R365 F5, R385 F5 and R685 F5.
AltosCloud HCI can support most applications anywhere from the edge to the data center.
1.2 What edition does AltosCloud HCI provide?
ANSWER: There are two AltosCloud HCI editions:
• AltosCloud HCI Datacenter edition
• AltosCloud HCI Edge edition
1.3 What difference between the editions?
ANSWER: The only different is the CPU core count. There is no difference in terms of features.
AltosCloud HCI Datacenter edition, when CPU vcore > 16
AltosCloud HCI Edge edition, when CPU vcore <= 16
AltosCloud HCI Edge edition is ideal for SMB (small and medium-sized business) or Edge deployment use cases.
1.4 Do you have management software to manage AltosCloud HCI nodes?