Microsoft Private Cloud Achievement automation of petroleum office management system

Like many large state-owned enterprises, PetroChina has a huge IT infrastructure, supporting complex production systems, enterprise resource Planning (ERP) systems, HR, oil industry business applications. As the concept of cloud computing continues to seep in, PetroChina's IT department has also found that its infrastructure environment has accumulated a considerable number of physical servers, but its average utilization is low, and each application system's infrastructure is separately managed by the project team itself, does not penetrate the entire Chinese petroleum It resource allocation and sharing mechanism, Inability to deploy IT resources to cope with peak and trough periods of different business systems.

The IT infrastructure built on the traditional architecture not only leads to increasing hardware, software and maintenance costs, but also brings many complications, including: the rapid increase in the number of servers led to increased pressure on IT department system maintenance work, server application, approval, procurement and construction cycle longer, Causes it to respond to the business demand slow, to the business innovation support is insufficient; The remote disaster-tolerant scheme of the IT infrastructure deployed across the country is relatively complex, costly and difficult, and with the increasing demand of terminal access, the license cost of professional software application is high and it is difficult to fully share.

In the "cloud computing era" gradually arrived today, such an IT infrastructure seems to be powerless, Chinese petroleum needs a real enterprise private cloud to help it build it resource pool, to achieve it computing, storage and other resources of flexible sharing and management, while strengthening the application of centralized security control.

Building IT resource pool with Microsoft private cloud

With the help of Microsoft's private cloud solution, PetroChina uses Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 to first implement server and storage virtualization that can be scaled on demand, providing the necessary computing and storage resources for various types of users within the enterprise in the form of resource pools, Dramatically increases resource utilization and response speed.

After the project was deployed, the number of Chinese oil physical servers was reduced to 1/5. The Hyper-V virtualization technology built into Windows Server 2012 enables a physical machine to support up to 320 logical processors and 4TB of physical memory, a virtual machine that supports up to 1TB memory, and 64 virtual processors, A cluster can contain up to 4,000 virtual machines with high density virtualization. At the same time, employees can use self-service it resource management to apply for, obtain the required computing resources, the maximum simplification of the resource application process, speed up the response to the business. The management efficiency of IT departments is also greatly improved.

"As the only it vendor capable of providing a full range of cloud services, Microsoft has a wealth of applications and industry experience in cloud computing," said Shenwey, vice president and marketing strategy director of Microsoft Greater China. In this project, Microsoft has provided China petroleum from the physical storage, the server, to the software, the application comprehensive design plan, and according to the Chinese Petroleum headquarters and the branch organization multitudinous present situation, has introduced the disaster-tolerant and the backup mechanism in the solution, has provided the solution overall usability. "Highly automated and intelligent Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 are very easy to deploy, and it takes only a week for PetroChina to build the environment."

Millions of users on private cloud

Further optimize the enterprise IT infrastructure, the ultimate goal is to support the upper level of application, the same period of China's oil has 1 million end-user office management system first migrated to the Microsoft Private cloud platform.

In the future, these millions of users at any time, any place through any equipment (including PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.) log into the office management system, see is their own personalized interface, even if the work has not finished the process, after work can be seamless to continue processing. For end users, the office management system of PetroChina is in the "cloud" on the application, at any time needed, readily available; On the other hand, for the enterprise itself, the system is in the safe private cloud, through the public virtual desktop and the user data disk separation design, solves the security problem, reduces the audit and the compliance risk.

This virtualization technology has played a huge role, first, the backend server and storage resources are virtualized using Hyper-V, saving 40% of software and hardware investments and 60% of storage investments, while also achieving centralized management and on-demand invocation of computing resources and storage resources, for front-end applications The back-end resource configuration is completely transparent and automated. Second on the front end, it is easy to provide virtual desktop services to any employee through VDI (virtual Desktop infrastructure) to support the management of three virtual desktop pools for dedicated virtual desktops, public virtual desktops, and custom virtual desktops, can provide users with applications and data across different devices.

PetroChina will have only one information system in the future

The private cloud platform, based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and System Center, provides PetroChina with a highly flexible, controllable IT infrastructure that provides in-depth application insights, maximizes support for the business and provides strong support for new business growth.

In fact, migrating the office management system to a private cloud platform is only the first step. For the future, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group information technology expert Institure said, "PetroChina is advocating such a concept, the future we only have an information system, the original isolated system will be horizontal, vertical all-round through, all it to do, production dynamics, warning tips, etc. will be seamlessly integrated into the private cloud platform, To give full play to the private cloud platform centralized control advantages, while taking into account a variety of personalized needs. The past is people looking for information, in the future to let information to find someone, so that information systems more active, intelligent for the business to provide a strong support. The