+Benefits of a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) with {pve}
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is especially useful for deployments in
+which a high infrastructure demand meets a low administration budget, for
+distributed setups such as remote and branch office environments or for virtual
+private and public clouds.
+
+HCI provides the following advantages:
+
+- Scalability: seamless expansion of compute, network and storage devices (i.e.
+ scale up servers and storage quickly and independently from each other).
+
+- Low cost: {pve} is open source and integrates all components you need such as
+ compute, storage, networking, backup, and management center. It can replace
+ an expensive compute/storage infrastructure.
+
+- Data protection and efficiency: services such as backup and disaster recovery
+ are integrated.
+
+- Simplicity: easy configuration and centralized administration.
+
+- Open Source: No vendor lock-in.
+
+
+Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Storage
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+{pve} has tightly integrated support for deploying a hyper-converged storage
+infrastructure. You can, for example, deploy and manage the following two
+storage technologies by using the Webinterface only:
+
+- *ceph*: a both, self-healing and self-managing shared, reliable and highly
+ scalable storage system. Checkout
+ xref:chapter_pveceph[how to manage ceph services on {pve} nodes]
+
+- *ZFS*: a combined file system and logical volume manager with extensive
+ protection against data corruption, various RAID modes, fast and cheap
+ snapshots - among other features. Find out
+ xref:chapter_zfs[how to leverage the power of ZFS on {pve} nodes].
+
+Besides above, {pve} has support to integrate a wide range of
+additional storage technologies. You can find out about them in the
+xref:chapter_storage[Storage Manager chapter].
+
+ifdef::wiki[]
+
+See Also
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* xref:chapter_pveceph[pveceph - Manage Ceph Services on Proxmox VE Nodes]
+
+endif::wiki[]