Converged Infrastructure (CI) Stacks & Disaggregated SAN Solutions
Decoupled, pre-validated rack-scale architectures engineered for extreme transactional throughput. Scale your storage pools into the petabytes without inflating CPU core counts and triggering punishing software licensing penalties. We architect high-availability, disaggregated compute and All-Flash SAN fabrics for mission-critical enterprise databases.
Enterprise Use Cases & Workloads
OLTP Databases
Mission-Critical OLTP Databases (Oracle / SQL Server)
Run heavy transactional database engines with sub-millisecond block storage latency, utilizing disaggregated compute nodes to tightly control core licensing costs while expanding storage independently.
Asymmetric Storage
Asymmetric Storage-to-Compute Scaling
Perfect for environments where data storage grows by 100TB+ annually while compute requirements remain flat — eliminating the forced hardware upgrades common in hyper-converged architectures.
Legacy SAN Refresh
Legacy SAN Refresh & Consolidation
Modernize aging 3-tier enterprise datacenters by replacing legacy arrays with high-performance All-Flash NVMe SANs connected over lossless 32G/64G Fibre Channel or NVMe/TCP switching fabrics.
ERP Consolidation
Enterprise ERP & Core Financial Ledgers
Deploy bulletproof, redundant hardware stacks engineered for 99.999% uptime, ensuring zero data loss during high-concurrency enterprise resource planning execution.
Ecosystem & Turnkey Integration Support
We Validate the Entire Data Path. Disaggregated architectures require flawless interoperability between host HBAs, SAN switches, and storage controllers. Kirti Telnet pre-configures multipathing (MPIO), zoning, and firmware matching before delivery.
Enterprise Storage & SAN OS
Best for: High-Performance Block Storage & Data Services
Fabric Protocols & Switching
Best for: Lossless High-Speed Block Transport
Database & Transactional Accelerators
Best for: Low-Latency OLTP Workloads
Hardware Management & Telemetry
Best for: Out-of-Band Fabric Monitoring
Converged Infrastructure Reference Architectures
Unlike Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) where compute and storage are bound to the same node, Converged Infrastructure disaggregates them. Below are our core enterprise CI building blocks engineered for independent scale.
Enterprise Compute Blade / Node
License-Optimized
Form Factor: 1U / 2U Rackmount (Dual Power, Redundant Boot)
Processor: Dual AMD EPYC 9004 or Intel Xeon Scalable (Optimized Core Counts)
Memory: 256 GB to 512 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
Network: Dual 32G Fibre Channel HBAs or 25G/100G NICs for NVMe/TCP
Starting Price
~₹ 7,50,000
Per Compute Node
Mid-Range All-Flash SAN Array
Dual Active-Active
Form Factor: 2U Rackmount (Dual Active-Active Controllers)
Engine: High-Performance Embedded RAID Controllers & Hardware Acceleration
Storage: 24x Dual-Port U.2/E3.S NVMe Drive Bays
Network: 32G Fibre Channel / 25GbE iSCSI Ports
Starting Price
~₹ 14,00,000
Mid-Market Block Storage
High-End Enterprise SAN Array
Multi-Controller Scale-Out
Form Factor: 4U Rackmount (Multi-Controller Scale-Out)
Engine: Enterprise ASIC-Accelerated Data Services & In-Line Compression
Storage: Scalable JBOD/JBOF Shelves | Up to Petabyte-Scale NVMe Capacity
Network: 64G/128G FC & 100GbE NVMe-oF Ports
Starting Price
~₹ 3.5 Cr+
Mission-Critical Datacenter
Redundant SAN Switching Fabric
Dual-Fabric Isolation A/B
Form Factor: 1U / 2U Rackmount (Dual-Fabric Isolation A/B)
ASIC: Non-blocking Enterprise Switching ASICs with Zero Packet Drop
Ports: 32G/64G Fibre Channel or 100GbE RoCEv2/TCP
Role: Lossless Block Storage Transport Backbone
Starting Price
~₹ 6,50,000
HA Fabric Pair
Architectural Deep Dive
The Economics of Disaggregated Scaling (Beating the License Trap)
Commercial database engines like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server license their software per CPU core. In a traditional HCI setup, if you need 300TB more storage capacity, you are forced to add new physical nodes that come with unwanted CPU cores — immediately triggering massive software licensing fee hikes. Converged Infrastructure decouples compute from storage. You add raw storage shelves or NVMe JBOFs without adding a single CPU core, keeping your database licensing costs strictly flat.
Fibre Channel vs. NVMe/TCP Deterministic Fabrics
Data corruption or packet loss in enterprise storage is catastrophic. While standard Ethernet can drop packets under heavy congestion, we engineer CI storage fabrics using either lossless 32G/64G Fibre Channel or modern NVMe over TCP with Priority Flow Control (PFC). This guarantees dedicated, predictable bandwidth for block storage traffic, ensuring database write operations execute in microseconds.
Active-Active Controllers & Zero-Downtime Maintenance
Enterprise CI arrays utilize dual active-active controller modules with mirrored cache and automated failover. If a power supply, controller card, or fibre channel cable fails mid-transaction, the secondary controller transparently takes over operational I/O in milliseconds without dropping client connections or corrupting database tables.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the fundamental difference between Converged Infrastructure (CI) and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)?
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) merges compute and storage into identical, modular nodes using software-defined storage, scaling linearly. Converged Infrastructure (CI) disaggregates compute servers from storage arrays — keeping them as physically or logically separate tiers connected by a SAN fabric. This allows you to scale compute and storage independently.
Why do database administrators (DBAs) often prefer Converged Infrastructure over HCI?
DBAs managing high-transaction OLTP databases need absolute control over CPU core counts (to manage licensing costs) and dedicated, low-latency block storage paths. CI allows enterprises to buy high-performance compute nodes with fewer cores, while scaling massive All-Flash SAN arrays independently, avoiding the rigid resource ratios of HCI.
Can Converged Infrastructure support modern AI or container workloads?
Yes. While CI is traditionally optimized for structured databases (Oracle, SQL, SAP) and virtualized enterprise apps, our modern CI architectures support NVMe-oF and high-speed NICs, allowing disaggregated compute nodes to mount high-speed block storage pools for containerized applications and standard virtualization.
How does Kirti Telnet ensure high availability in a CI deployment?
We eliminate single points of failure across the entire infrastructure stack: dual power supplies on all servers and storage arrays, dual active-active storage controllers, redundant A/B SAN switching fabrics, and multi-pathed (MPIO) storage connections on every hypervisor and database node.
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Whether you’re replacing an aging SAN or building a greenfield disaggregated datacenter, our storage architects will design the exact topology for your enterprise.
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