All the compute, storage, networking, and virtualization assets of the data center are brought together under HCI to provide an integrated experience for the end-user. While the storage devices (flash or spinning disk) remain onsite, the computer components and storage infrastructure are commodity hardware delivered from a data center using a distributed software layer to minimize infrastructure pain points. Businesses replace complicated and expensive legacy infrastructure with a distributed platform that uses commodity servers based on industry standards and enables them to scale their workloads properly. A server consists of a central processing unit (CPU) and solid-state drives (SSDs), and hard disk drives (HDDs). Running all operational functions on each node ensures the best performance and robustness.