+A hyper-converged infrastructure 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.
+
+
+ifdef::wiki[]
+
+See Also
+--------
+
+* xref:chapter_pveceph[pveceph - Manage Ceph Services on Proxmox VE Nodes]
+
+endif::wiki[]