Ready Nodes are purpose-built PowerEdge server products that have been tested, validated and certified for specific hyper-convergence software that customers can install themselves to build out a hyper-converged infrastructure. The point is to reduce project risk, improve storage efficiency, simplify management and quicken scaling. Dell EMC offers Ready Nodes for vSAN (subsidiary VMware's hyper-converged and software-defined storage software), VxFlex and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct software-defined storage technology. Microsoft introduced Storage Spaces Direct with Windows Server 2016, adding support for it to Windows Admin Center to simplify management with Windows Server 2019.