Failed to ask the one question needed...
Looks like some one did not look up the definition of HCI.
Hyper-convergence (hyperconvergence) is a type of infrastructure system with a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and other technologies from scratch in a commodity hardware box supported by a single vendor.
So the question is dose NetApp provide support for VMware if yes this is a HCI. Support from a single vendor is the only check box they might be missing ...
Way to fail...