Dell Storage solution for private cloud platform in Suzhou Industrial Park

Mention of Dell, has been transformed from an existing PC vendor to an End-to-end solution provider, through acquisitions in recent years, Dell has evolved a separate product line from servers, storage, networking, and now Dell is committed to providing small and midsize enterprises with a balanced and applicable end-to-end solution for the cloud computing platform, To meet customer demand for data applications.

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As the transition phase of Dell, gradually formed from the server, storage, network and services and other aspects of the independent solution to provide end-to-end user it applications, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, for the server, storage market users demand for product development and promotion, under the trend of virtualization and cloud computing, The use of innovative product technology to provide users with private cloud platform.

Users are the key to cloud computing. As early as 2005, the Computer Information center of Suzhou Industrial Park cooperated with Dell in building a fibre storage Area network (SAN) system. Over time, the original fiber San system can not provide a "private cloud computing platform" of the building needs, storage systems need to be more efficient, more scalable, more intensive, Suzhou Industrial Park Computer Information Center select Dell IP SAN storage solution (6 Dell PowerEdge The R900 server, with 1 sets of Dell EqualLogic PS6000XV IP SAN storage arrays and 1 sets of VMware virtualization software, initially builds a "private cloud computing platform" infrastructure.

With the 2011, the Computer Information center of Suzhou Industrial Park began to construct the private cloud platform of e-government in Suzhou Industrial Park. In the "e-government private cloud Platform" project construction, the computer Information center of Suzhou Industrial Park decided to make the cloud storage System platform as the most important part of the project construction of "e-government private cloud platform", provide resources and external basic equipment service platform, and provide a unified application platform from decentralized to centralized management.

Suzhou Industrial Park office Building

Implementation demand in private cloud construction

As an early information application construction of Suzhou Industrial Park, the Computer Information center of Suzhou Industrial Park mainly aims at the application and maintenance of it construction, especially in data maintenance and security as the key, from each area of application coverage to network application management maintenance, before in the system migration, data maintenance and other aspects of some problems , by the gradual transformation of virtualization technology in 07 to provide platform construction, relying on the government and the park E-government application features, successfully transferred to a new generation of storage system platform, Suzhou Industrial Park gradually build open private cloud platform.

袁飚, director of Computer Information Center, Suzhou Industrial Park, said that according to the park's practical experience, after the storage strategy changes, need to purchase Third-party storage management software, consider the cost and to protect the performance and business growth needs. In this context, Dell provides storage management software that covers almost all of the functionality, from software services, enabling us to seamlessly upgrade future storage-system software without adding any software costs.

E-government overall IT infrastructure analysis

On the private cloud platform services, Dell from the hardware support to the software application of Suzhou Industrial Park to provide a sound service system, compared to other vendors, Dell can provide first-class services to streamline the process of service, especially for users of the actual needs of continuous improvement of product solutions and services to establish good cooperation.

Building a private cloud platform for E-government

Suzhou Industrial Park in e-government cloud platform for the construction of the network is more critical, the park uses fiber to the park construction ideas, through the horizontal expansion, modular way to build open new T4 level data center, especially in the Virtualization Application Mode iSCSI protocol is the most effective and appropriate solution, Based on the Vsphere virtualization environment, the virtual storage application is established, and the data center asynchronous disaster backup scheme is adopted in the future.

E-Government private cloud data center platform

Compared to traditional storage, CDP has become the most effective embodiment of virtualization technology on cloud storage platforms, and Dell EqualLogic provides a scalable and extremely rich feature. With Dell's equallogic management software, the strategy of non-dating upgrades, each time the extended storage layer does not affect the overall architecture of the software. Its function is unified, its operation way is also the unified effective fast detection business existence problem. IP Sans also have some advantages in terms of cost, and more applications are available on the same project cost.

Dell EqualLogic Storage Application Suzhou Industrial Park Data Center

Suzhou Industrial Park Computer Information Center General section Chief di said: Suzhou Industrial Park "e-government private cloud computing platform" in the construction of the entire IP SAN storage solution 70% Implementation of the Dell EqualLogic storage, from the original fiber SAN storage to IP San solution, in addition to the i/ O performance, maintainability and support for virtualization, data resource security is also the use of PS6000XV IP San Cloud storage node and software management as an asynchronous replication backup scheme, the next 6.0 versions can be said to implement synchronous replication scenarios.

Using Dell's free storage software, the Suzhou Industrial Park Computer Information Center utilizes the Dell EqualLogic so-called "2+2" solution to store the virtual host files and business data in the expanded resource group, which enables the rapid expansion of the cloud storage platform in a non-stop situation.

Construction results

Construction results

For the previous it construction, put a lot of hardware costs to maintain a small number of application operations, the adoption of the government cloud platform to reduce hardware costs while providing more application of the operation, UPS power utilization from 83% year-on-year decline has been to stabilize at about 53%, Virtualization technology in the government cloud information construction of the embodiment of the effect (from the previous 100 servers reduced to today 10 servers), energy savings of 300,000 yuan per year operating costs.

With the "e-government private Cloud" project, which embodies the Dell Cloud computing strategy landing in China and foothold another solid step, through a series of product technology solution initiatives, Dell for influential corporate customers to provide Dell private cloud solutions, build enterprise cloud Platform, and will be around the next generation of data centers the latest features, Together with customers to provide industry-leading users of cloud computing platform and it-related services.