H3cloud: Provide optimized IaaS solution for enterprise

Cloud computing industry's forces, there are the first to do, there is a side to do, there are only do not say. H3cloud belong to the third kind. A deeper understanding of H3cloud's cloud strategy is the 2013 H3C new product new technology roadshow Beijing station. The deepest impression is H3C company Vice President Yu Xu Jun to CSDN Cloud computing channel reporter said a word: "Open, is h3c future important strategic direction." Both van and H3cloud are inseparable from the open and ecological system. ”

H3cloud, is it a technology, a few products, or some kind of solution? In the domestic cloud computing ecosystem, what is the role of the company that has an important network? To be the enterprise-class (Private cloud) IaaS solution Provider, and on this basis to work with the public cloud to form a hybrid cloud solution. Let the hardware and software go hand in hand, to provide first-class services for enterprises is our core objectives and positioning. "The H3C cloud computing business Director Wu Jian the CSDN cloud computing channel," he said.

H3cloud, in 2008, the industry's recognized starting point for cloud computing was 2006, when Amazon launched the cloud storage service S3 (simple Storage service). But H3C's cloud computing program, which began in 2012, was officially set up in the cloud computing business?

"Sooner." "One of H3C's most important customers is the internet," says Wu Jian, who has worked in multiple positions, several departments (technology, markets, etc.) and has served as the head of the network department (then also the Minister of Cloud computing operations). In with Tencent, Baidu, Taobao, Sina, Sohu, Shanda These natural is cloud computing customer grows together in the process, we saw the cloud the birth and the thorough application, groped for the newest business request, also for the cloud architecture brings the technological vicissitude to make the contribution, and with more partners to face the future difficulty and the technical challenge. These have laid a deep accumulation for h3cloud. ”

This time point is 2008 years. Since 2012, when H3C announced the creation of the cloud computing business, it also defined three stages of enterprise cloud computing development:

The first phase is the virtualization of computing and storage, the cloud ready network phase;

The second stage is the cloud computing platform to achieve a standards-based integration, cloud computing operating system to achieve resource scheduling automation;

In the third stage, the application of cloud computing platform is blooming.

In the first phase from 2008 to 2012, in addition to Internet companies, H3C also help many enterprise customers (Chengdu Cloud Computing Center, the Tianjin National Digital Publishing Cloud, HNA Group Cloud Computing Center, etc.) completed the Standardization of Data center network platform for the implementation of a cloud-ready network and landing, Cloud interconnection, Network and product solutions for cloud interconnection and cloud interconnection are also in place. During the start of the second phase (2013 to 2015), H3C is gradually increasing the scale of cloud computing, focusing on the standardization of Cloud Network Service architectures, and establishing the goal of an enterprise-class (Private cloud) IaaS solution provider as a whole.

"If we define our style, it's more appropriate not to say just do it." Wu Jian laughs: "We prefer to be down to Earth to provide the most optimized holistic solution for the Enterprise data Center IaaS Cloud computing infrastructure." ”

Strategy, exerting force on the infrastructure layer

Covers the network, cloud software, computing, storage four categories of products, covering server virtualization, cloud network integration, IaaS private cloud and mixed cloud rainbow solutions, for enterprises to bring a one-stop "turnkey" delivery experience of the cloud services, this is the h3cloud of all.

In Wu Jian's view, industry has moved towards virtualization and the direction of the cloud as a whole, which is an irreversible trend. H3cloud has implemented the top virtualization and cloud automation, cloud network integration solutions, and in the form of a standardized solution to the landing, and this happens with the current enterprise gradually migrate applications to the cloud, and based on cloud computing operational dimension of the entire it adaptation.

At the infrastructure level, it is advisable to provide the middle-tier middleware or PAAs layer with the application layer to the ecosystem of Partners and third party developers.

As we all know, the IaaS level, the perfect server, the gradual innovation of storage, is increasingly a network of short boards. Industry experts told reporters: "Network difficult to match" has become the mantra of IaaS enterprises. Specifically, one is that cloud services now need to connect a large number of internal communications, such as Hadoop, when the cluster size over thousands of times, the network will become a larger bottleneck than IO; the second is that the nodes of the virtual machine can only carry out important dynamic migration in the same two-level network. The third is that each virtual host will run more than 10 virtual machines, which will result in a network segment in actual need to bear the number of machines and specific traffic are doubled. These factors led to the data center network from the former predominantly north-south, slowly into the internal-oriented things, while the data center rapid emergence of a sophomore trend.

Despite these problems, various solutions have emerged in the industry, including Trill and Fabricpath, which take routing capabilities to the two-tier network, Vn-tag and Vepa to identify virtual machine traffic, VPLS and OTV for two-tier interconnection, and now very hot SDN (software definition Network) , but are in the groping and trying stage, to really achieve, is not easy.

This kind of development, but gave the network to grow more business space. Wu Jian said: "We have achieved the server, storage, network, virtualization and cloud management platform for the real integration." ”

He argues that companies, especially the Internet companies that provide IaaS, think bottlenecks are on the Web, which is true. Both the hosting of virtualization and the virtualization of the network need to change. For example, virtual data center business choreography, the most difficult is not the virtual host and virtual storage, but the network. "The hardest thing is that virtual network cable, how to draw it is not easy to achieve." This is our advantage. The real cloud landing, the realization of the value of cloud computing, need our strength. ”

In fact, the demand from the enterprise side has already been formed. Since its launch in 2012, H3cloud has sold more than 300 sets of virtual platforms and cloud management platforms. Mainly in the government, education and health care industries, the growth rate is much faster than we expected. Wu Jian said.

Technology, independent research and development + open platform

There are innovative technologies in demand, such as VEPA, SDN switches and CAS Cloud management platforms.

Take Vepa as an example. In the traditional server virtualization scheme, the data packets from the virtual machine's virtual network card are transmitted to the upper switch of the external network through the physical network card of the server, and the identity information of the virtual machine is blocked, and the upper switch can only perceive all the traffic flowing out from the physical network card of a server. Instead of perceiving the traffic of a virtual machine on a server, it is not possible to guarantee quality of service and security isolation from the traditional network device layer. How to integrate virtual machine network traffic into traditional network management requires the identification of the traffic of virtual machines. To this end, the industry has proposed two sets of agreements. One of them is HP/H3C-led Vepa (Virtual ethernte Port aggregator). Its core is to reuse q-in-q and modify existing spanning tree algorithms.

Wu Jian pointed out that Vepa (802.1QBG) had passed the IEEE 802.1 specification last year, gaining support from Juniper, IBM, Qlogic, Brocade, and even Cisco companies. More than that, Vepa has landed. "A client said to me, virtualization has been used for many years, but it is difficult to monitor the traffic and security of the virtual machine has always bothered him." Vepa's greatest value for him is not to change the original security deployment (because Vepa does not make any changes to the Ethernet data structure, the cost is very low through VLAN, ACL, QoS, etc.). Cloud network integration is the key to the hardware and software with the implementation of dynamic resource expansion, Vepa do this, which is important to protect the old investment of enterprises. ”

Vepa, H3C also set up a dedicated research and development team in the United States to focus on VMware-compatible vswitch to achieve Vepa's landing in VMware environments. At the same time, CAS Cloud management platform, reference OpenStack specifications for testing. Reflects the H3C research and development effort based on standardization to maximize the openness and protection of user investment.

Independent research and development is the only way to achieve cloud network integration. The same is true for H3cloud. According to Wu Jian, based on the IaaS level, especially virtualization and cloud management platform, are adhering to independent research and development. CAS contains three major parts, CVK (Cloud virtualization Kernel, virtualization kernel platform), CVM (Cloud virtualization Manager, Virtualization Management System) and CIC (Cloud FDI Center, Cloud Business Management Centre, only through independent research and development to maximize the integration of virtualization and cloud platform and hardware products. More than that, in the past 9 years, H3C accumulated tens of millions of lines of code, has the greatest degree of implementation of the network programmable, can be scheduled, soft and hard integration of management. Now CAS has successfully cooperated with IMC to realize the seamless management of the data center's internal computing and network, which greatly simplifies the management difficulty and improves the management level.

Public information has shown that, as of 2012, H3C to research and development investment attaches great importance, 55% of the staff is research and development, 15% of the annual revenue to put in, 8 years of total investment 6.5 billion. and specifically to H3cloud, "the specific figures, although not done statistics, but it is certain that we are in the cloud, whether in the past few years, or in the next few years, research and development investment is greatly increased every year." ”

For the next planning, Wu Jian sold a case, "we will certainly introduce more technical highlights, and can effectively help enterprises solve the problem of real problems." "But perhaps there is one thing to be sure: the introduction of H3cloud's All-in-one machine.

Platforms, building ecosystems with standards

Yes, the technology that doesn't bring value to the user is meaningless. Only the technology that can bring value to the enterprise has the vitality.

In the Internet-driven IT technology architecture cloud environment, for technical capabilities and professionals are more nervous of traditional industry enterprises, to achieve the cloud dream, the need for the overall programme delivery and technical services full support.

This clearly requires more open cooperation. In Wu Jian's view, "Software definition everything" and "hardware Recovery" is the industry's two hot points, but the two must be mutually integrated and common progress. Because virtualization is not a complete replacement for hardware, such as firewalls. "We are determined to follow the path of standardization and compatibility." The H3cloud system is open and includes a virtualized layer, cloud management layer, server, storage, and network, and is a highly available platform that has been developed, tested, and optimized. Through an open interface, it is believed that more active ecosystems will be built to provide more optimized cloud services for enterprises. ”

Among them, H3C will take the initiative to help channel transformation, "Pan-China Three team" was established so that 4,000 partners can be from distribution and logistics to provide customers with more valuable services enterprises. And those with OAA (Open creator architecture) the underlying development capabilities of ISVs and SI, more smoothly into the h3cloud biosphere, shared cloud development and application of large boundaries.

In addition, there are industrial cooperation. H3cloud's hybrid cloud solution, Cloud Rainbow, has been in deep cooperation with Aliyun. It is reported that the two systems have been tuned to achieve mutual backup and recovery based on virtual machines. Wu Jian to reporters: "For the government, public utilities, medical and other industries, in the peak call the public cloud resources or in the public cloud to achieve off-site disaster preparedness is a practical solution to meet the demand." Mixed cloud will continue to exist for a long time, we will cooperate with the public cloud service providers, through the investment of both sides of the technology, together to complete cloud rainbow cooperation. ”

The PAAs features such as Opsworks,elastic Beanstalk were released in AWS; Google pushed GCE beyond Gae; Salesforce.com integrated force.com and Heroku; Windows Azure across IaaS, PAAs, and SaaS, the Ipaas convergence trend of the public cloud is increasing, but is h3cloud positioning accurate in providing an IAAS solution for enterprise-class customers?

"This is our sober understanding," Wu Jian. Internationally, both Amazon and Google have been groping for years in the public cloud, with IaaS and PAAs already in the process of integration. But for more industry enterprises, more still in the private cloud construction phase, to achieve the integration with the public cloud is still far away. Especially at home, south and north, east and west, Enterprise's information system still has a big gap, when some enterprises in the north are still in the stage of virtualization, considering the hardware configuration, project optimization, cloud network integration, the South has a gradual application of enterprises to the cloud, and based on the cloud platform to develop new applications. "The ideal and the reality need to have a balance." Change requires process and time. There are so many things we can do. ”

Of course, after the standardization of commercial programs, H3cloud may consider personalization and customization, but the key to the current phase is to do a good job of standardization. Wu Jian to reporters: "This is the enterprise in the cloud transformation of the strategic attempt, we hope to be able to do better." ”

Technology, products, programs readily available, the ecosystem has also begun to scale, began to "run" H3cloud want to run faster, help more enterprises optimize and rebuild IaaS platform. And here, also from another dimension reflects the current situation of domestic cloud computing industry, China's private cloud practice into real growth period.