Donghua Group Cloud computing 1:10 Wave Eight server consolidation

Fast-growing enterprises are bound to accompany the rapid expansion of IT infrastructure, enterprises are facing increasingly fierce market competition, business structure changes frequently, the previous deployment of the physical server old system difficult to make changes, it will become the burden of it change, how to solve this burden, Increasing the flexibility of IT systems has become a real problem for many enterprises.

Recently, the Hebei Donghua group information Infrastructure completed the cloud computing transformation, to many waves eight server shuttle TS850 platform, set up a unified cloud computing resource pool, the majority of applications migrated to the resource pool. After the transformation, the existing business and resources can be unified management, the flexibility of the infrastructure greatly increased, whether the original system expansion or new system deployment, there are fundamental changes. At the same time, the equipment utilization rate is greatly improved, it cost and maintenance difficulty also drops obviously, the Donghua group's informatization infrastructure has become the typical of the intensive new structure.

Typical enterprise Sample--historical baggage is unavoidable

Founded in October 2003, Donghua Group is a comprehensive private enterprise group which integrates scientific research and development, manufacturing, financial and trade as a whole, and is headquartered in Tangshan, with more than 4,800 employees and a total assets of 6.35 billion yuan. Group of 4 Two-level group, a division, 16 members of the scale of enterprises, industry related to metallurgical mining, iron and steel smelting, refractory production and other business sectors. Group's growth is also accompanied by the upgrading of enterprise Informatization, has deployed NC5.7, OA, Depew UMC, trend Anti-Virus and other sets of systems.

These systems are deployed independently on a large number of physical servers, with the increasing number of systems, the operation management of the data center of the group has been challenged: first, it is difficult to achieve a unified and efficient hardware management, administrators are tired of repeated hardware and software maintenance, can not avoid frequent downtime, the problem of slow response to problems. Second, the resource allocation is unreasonable, some independent server utilization is only 10%-15%, resource idle waste and occupy the group room space and energy. In addition, tight server resources are difficult to support the testing needs of some group projects. Obviously, these problems were more limited by the technical conditions of the time, which seemed almost inevitable at the time.

Change, starting with the cloud computing transformation

The development of cloud computing is becoming more and more mature, and more and more cases are used in enterprises. Donghua Group decided to introduce cloud computing technology, realize the overall planning and management of hardware resources, and turn the historical baggage into high value assets. Cloud computing through the abstraction of physical resources and breakthrough physical constraints flexible configuration, so that enterprises can lower deployment costs, improve it efficiency and server utilization, only a small amount of hardware resources and space to support multiple applications, operation and maintenance management, build a new test environment also becomes simple.

In view of the rich existing application system of Donghua group, the performance requirements of the hardware platform are very high, and the business data needs to be migrated from the old equipment to the new equipment, both in hardware and software to have the telecommunications level stability performance and error correction capabilities, and for the migration of data integration and maintenance, as far as possible to achieve one-stop deployment, monitoring, Management。 After comparison selection, Donghua group chose the Tide shuttle TS850 eight server as the underlying physical resource pool, its outstanding performance, reliability, scalability, manageability of the Donghua group is very satisfied.

Tide Shuttle TS850 is China's first independent eight server, has a very high performance, reliability and scalability, applicable to large-scale cloud computing, ERP, database and other core applications. The product in the 6U space to reach the limits of extensibility, tolerance 40 degrees Celsius high temperature. At the same time, the wave shuttle TS850 key components, including fans, power supplies, hard drives, such as the use of redundant hot-swappable technology, embedded nearly 200 sensors to form a monitoring network, a variety of hardware and software failures can detect and modify, forming a multi-level fault-tolerant ability. According to the third party data, the wave shuttle TS850 in the eight server market share of 39%, ranked first in the market, at present, China each sales of the three high-end eight server, there is a wave shuttle TS850.

Donghua Group Cloud Computing Deployment Map

Reborn infrastructure, renewed business security

Donghua Group Headquarter adopts three TS850 to compose the bottom physical resource pool, each physical server divides 10 virtual servers to deploy different application systems respectively, through the whole cloud computing service platform, to guarantee the normal operation of the group core business system. At the same time, the physical server nodes connect to the storage array of the application server through two Fibre channel switches, migrating the original two HP EVA storage data to the new storage device.

Through the Wave shuttle TS580-supported intelligent cloud computing platform, Donghua Group gained the benefits of cost, efficiency, energy consumption, space and management. TS580 the best scalability, fully meet the group's future business growth needs, reduce the cost of expansion. Through cloud computing, the number of servers from the original 10 to 5 units, greatly saving the purchase cost and space occupancy, the new application of the online also do not need to purchase additional new servers. In addition, intelligent power management technology can reduce the server energy consumption by 30%, thus reducing the operating cost.

Donghua Group Management said that the wave TS850 supported intelligent cloud computing platform, with Low-cost and high performance to solve the problems of traditional data centers, improve the utilization of resources and management efficiency, for the group's development has brought a good value-added effect. In view of the universality of the informatization construction route of Donghua Group, the cloud computing scheme based on wave high-end server will provide support for more Chinese enterprises to further optimize IT architecture and improve core competitiveness.