Wave first announced SDDC Strategic Fusion architecture define next generation data center

October 23, the wave at the "Inspur World" technology and application Summit for the first time announced software definition Data Center (SDDC) strategy, positioning it as a wave of cloud computing an integral part of the overall strategy, it is clear that the change in the software Definition Data Center market full force. In the subsequent "Software Definition data center infrastructure and Industry application sub-forum", the wave of SDDC strategy to the three-dimensional interpretation of the core concept of this strategy-Fusion Architecture (Smart architecture), showing the wave defined software definition data center (smart Data Center) Blueprint.

Figure 1-The core concept of the Wave Cloud data center strategy

Wave Fusion Architecture Concept emphasizes that the business-driven hardware reconfiguration (hardware reconfiguration) is combined with software definition (Software defining), its core is to decouple and reconstruct the hardware resources such as CPU, memory, I/O, and let the data center compute and store , network, security resources of the full virtualization, fully automated to become a reality, and through the definition of software to achieve business awareness of the requirements of the combination and allocation of resources, to achieve flexible expansion of the system and super large-scale continuous expansion, and truly realize the data center like a computer operation and management, better support users in cloud Business operations and growth in the large data age.

The future of convergence: The data center is the computer

It is not difficult to see, the wave of the integration of the structure of the concept of emphasis on the hardware refactoring to start, the similar resources in computing, storage, network and other equipments are integrated into resource pools, so that the similar resources among different equipments can be arbitrarily reorganized, which provides support for the software level to perceive the demand of business resources, the intelligent dynamic allocation and the combination resources. To better play the value of the software definition.

Figure 2-Integration architecture development route

In the view of the tide, the fusion architecture will go through three stages: the first stage is "Server is the computer", it realizes the centralization and modularization of the non IT resources such as heat dissipation, power supply, management function and so on, and utilizes the software virtualization technology to realize the pooling and centralized management of IT resources such as computing and storage.

The second stage is "cabinet is the computer", refactoring I/O module, further to the calculation of the storage, network and other IO devices to pool, and the software defined by the calculation, software defined storage and software defined by the network to meet business needs. The feature is that the whole cabinet is used as a computer on the hardware to realize the complete software definition.

The third generation stage is "The data center is the computer", the computation, I/O, the storage realizes the complete pooling, the software realizes the resources overall management and the deployment, enables the user to be able to use the service to drive the application, carries on the resources Unified Dispatch. Feature is the automatic perception of business requirements, the provision of resources.

Wang Endong, senior vice president of the Wave, said: "Through the hardware reconfiguration and software definition, the future Fusion Architecture Cloud Data Center will realize the complete integration and flow of computing, storage and network resources, bring the overall promotion in system efficiency, expansibility, power consumption and management, and will promote the transformation of data center from Resource drive to business Drive, The real presentation of the data center is the vision of the computer. ”

Hardware reconfiguration is the key to SDDC

From the perspective of future development, the new technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, large data, mobile interconnection promote the centralization and scale development of the data center, on the one hand, the number of large-scale data centers is increasing rapidly, and it is expected that by 2020, More than 5000 data center servers will reach 70% of the total server population, while a single data center continues to grow, with 500,000 capacity in a single datacenter expected by 2020.

Figure 3-Wave Fusion Architecture Product Roadmap

For the importance of hardware refactoring, Facebook vice President, OCP, Frank Frankovsky, spoke at the OCP summit Conference in 2013: "The biggest challenge in hardware design today is to try to predict the direction of software development." Software can become very fast, unfortunately, in the physical environment we can not only tap a few keyboard changes in the hardware. We have to plan materials, do design, use tools, drive manufacturing and supply chain operations. Therefore, there is a serious mismatch between the changing speed of software and hardware configuration. ”

In fact, hardware refactoring has led to better software development in some areas of technology, such as the current popularity of virtualization technology, and its development owes much to hardware refactoring. At the beginning of the development of virtualization technology, Intel added some targeted instruction design on the chip to better develop the virtualization features. And the first server virtualization, a large number of server vendors also in the hardware level of continuous optimization, and finally play a powerful role in virtualization software. Subsequent storage virtualization has developed rapidly, thanks to the advent of Gigabit Ethernet, SSD and other hardware technologies. In addition, in the data center-oriented product level, the industry has also made useful attempts, such as wave Smart Rack Machine cabinet Server in a number of internet companies to achieve large-scale applications.

Three steps of Wave fusion architecture

It is based on the clear cognition of the value of hardware reconstruction, the tide regards it as an important part of the whole SDDC strategy, and completes the development of the first generation Fusion architecture product on this basis. It is understood that the wave will be phased in three stages of the integration of the structure of the product development, has been completed, including smart Rack, large data integration machine, Cloud OS, K1, including the first generation of fusion architecture product design research and development, hardware implementation of the cooling, power and other components of the modular integration, The software has developed the Cloud Data center operating system based on virtualization, and initially realizes the unified management of the resource pool.

As the first generation of representative products, Smart Rack Machine cabinet Server has been in Baidu, Ali and other large internet companies to achieve the scale of deployment, the market share of more than 60%, while driving the tide in the Internet industry market share of more than 40%, and become a number of Internet giants strategic level suppliers.

It is revealed that the wave has embarked on a second-generation fusion architecture product development work, will be at the hardware level to complete the I/O module reconfiguration, realize the calculation, storage and network of initial integration and pooling, and the development of large-scale data center resource management software, plans in 2-3 years to launch a decoupled cloud server and the new generation of clouds OS. In the future, the wave will introduce the next generation of fusion architecture products, the realization of computing, I/O, storage full pool, the software to achieve a comprehensive resource management and deployment, so that users can use business-driven applications, a unified resource scheduling.

Wang Endong said fusion architecture is not a new concept, but the previous integration architecture more emphasis on the integration of different modules in the data center or relatively simple software and hardware integration deployment, rather than from a business perspective, the hardware of the datacenter to redesign the architecture to better play the software functions. When people gradually realize that software can not really define everything, it will inevitably turn the line of sight to hardware, which will be the trend of future development.