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Singapore-based startup Arcfra has entered the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and been named in Gartner\u2019s latest Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software less than a year after launch.<\/p>\n
CEO Wenhao Xu founded Arcfra in May 2024 and the company has since expanded operations into South Korea and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. Wenhao Xu was previously co-founder and board chair of Chinese HCI company SmartX<\/a>, based in Beijing from 2013 to 2024, and a software engineer at Oracle-acquired Nimbula<\/a> in Mountain View from 2011 to 2012. He was a summer intern at VMware during his academic courses.<\/p>\n Wenhao Xu stated: \u201cWe are excited to be recognized by Gartner in the 2025 Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software. We believe this recognition reflects our vision of delivering agile, cost-effective, and future-ready infrastructure to enterprises navigating the post-VMware era.\u201d<\/p>\n The company provides full infrastructure support for compute, storage (block and file), networking, security, and disaster recovery with a single resource pool. The company is featured in Gartner\u2019s updated Market Guide for Full-Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software<\/a> report, which was published last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP) supports both virtualized and containerized applications, and provides security and disaster recovery features. The management layer includes API access along with observability and automation functions. The software is presented as a set of cloud service modules. <\/p>\n AECP requires a minimum of three nodes as a start point. It is available either through subscription or a perpetual license model and there are four offerings AECP Essential, AECP Standard, AECP Advanced and AECP VDI Essential. There are two supported hypervisors; VMware vSphere and AVE (Arcfra Virtualization Engine). AVE is built on KVM technology.<\/p>\n AECP Essential supports 80 TB of raw capacity per node. The other editions support up to 256 TB. Both NFS and iSCSI protocols are available, with the AECP VDI Essential offering limited to NFS. The file system is built directly on bare devices, said to be more suitable for accessing high-performance block storage, avoiding the overhead of the existing Linux file system.<\/p>\n Both all-flash and hybrid SSD + disk drive storage is supported with cold data automatically tiered to disk. Data is moved between cluster nodes using RDMA. With a cluster boost mode setting, the \u201cvhost protocol shares memory between Guest OS, QEMU, and ABS to optimize I\/O request processing and data transfer, improving VM performance and reducing I\/O latency.\u201d ABS stands for Arcfra Block Storage.<\/p>\n All four AECP versions support erasure coding and encryption at rest. Drive-level data block checksums provide silent data corruption protection. System-level protection is available at the node, rack, and site level. The system provides high-availability and stretched active:active clustering. There is a storage snapshot function and automatic recovery for component or node failure.<\/p>\n The specifications are listed here<\/a>. Download an AECP product brief here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arcfra claims a 50 percent reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) compared with VMware, and it is positioning itself as a VMware migration target with cost-efficiency as a focal point.<\/p>\n Gartner\u2019s report lists eight representative HCI product suppliers: Anchao Cloud Software, Arcfra, Broadcom (VMware), Microsoft, Nutanix, Oxide, Sangfor, and Softiron. It does not include Scale Computing<\/a>, SmartX, or StorMagic<\/a>, but then it is a representative and not an exhaustive list.<\/p>\n Anchao, Arcfra, Oxide, Sangfor, and Softiron are classed as regional suppliers with the others being global.<\/p>\n We are told Wenhao founded Arcfra for three reasons:<\/p>\n Arcfra is funded by Vertex Ventures and other major investors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singapore-based startup Arcfra has entered the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and been named in Gartner\u2019s latest Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software less than a year after launch. Wenhao Xu CEO Wenhao Xu founded Arcfra in May 2024 and the company has since expanded operations into South Korea and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. 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