Microsoft and NetApp build private cloud support 800 hotels in Jinjiang

As a traditional hotel management enterprise, from the rapid growth of internal business and external competitive pressure, Jinjiang hotel's business and IT departments are facing the challenge of centralizing management of enterprise resources and setting up on-demand enterprise platform. In order to meet the current business development needs, while achieving the next 5-10 years to become the world's leading brand strategic objectives, Jinjiang Hotel based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 built a private cloud platform, to achieve its IT architecture from decentralized to centralized change, For the enterprise to pursue the management goal of excellence has laid a solid foundation.

As one of the largest hotel management groups in Asia, the strategic core of Shanghai Jinjiang International Hotel Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jinjiang Hotel) is the construction of Jinjiang brand into a stable domestic hotel industry brand, among the high-end international hotel brands, in the next 5-10 years to become world-renowned brands. By the end of 2011, Jinjiang Hotel in China and the operation of the establishment of the hotel for 858, rooms throughout China's 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of nearly 200 cities. For overseas business, the 50% U.S. Interstate Hotel Group (Interstate Hotels & Resorts, LLC) manages nearly 400 hotels in nine countries worldwide.

Jinjiang hotels know that in order to become a truly world-renowned brand, its IT infrastructure to keep up with, the past branches of the self-construction, maintenance and management of IT equipment and resources have been unable to adapt to the rapid pace of hotel group development. If the establishment of a new hotel, it facilities need to be debugged for a long time to put into use; in the process of daily management, the unreasonable allocation of computing resources and storage resources still exists. To meet current business development needs and to support the strategic goals for the next 5-10 years, Jinjiang Hotel decided to build a secure, stable and flexible cloud computing platform that would enable its IT architecture to move from a decentralized to centralized, increasing it value while reducing enterprise IT operational costs, Can be on demand for each subordinate hotel expanding business needs to provide strong support, and for the future more and more hotel management application system to move to the cloud platform to lay a solid foundation.

The IT department becomes a true service provider

Due to a number of business units affiliated to Jinjiang Hotel Group, the private cloud platform is built by the cost sharing, common construction and centralized management of three independent corporate companies. In accordance with the system of independent accounting of all business units within the group, each business unit uses private cloud platform resources separately, and by providing a dynamic resource pool, it truly achieves the intensive management of group computing resources, storage resources and on-demand consumption. Its IT department is starting to provide the services that users need, as well as charging them as a real IT service provider, and gradually building a process, standardized it operation system.

The private cloud platform is built on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012, said Shenwey, vice president of Microsoft Greater China and general manager of marketing strategy, "as the only it vendor capable of providing a full range of cloud services, Microsoft has a wealth of applications and industry service experience in the field of cloud computing. After deploying a private cloud platform, Jinjiang Hotel Group's business units can be isolated and personalized IT services, business processing and IT system development is no longer subject to existing hardware resources, procurement time and other factors, accelerate the speed of IT capability, can maintain a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business environment. ”

By combining the many features of Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0, you can provide host hosting, application monitoring, performance extension, and other support to business units in the group to isolate resource usage and network access between business units. At the same time can be flexible to the cloud platform billing and quota management.

In order to meet the different requirements of different types of applications, the scheme builds up two resource pools based on Windows Server-V Hyper 3.0 to accommodate virtual machines with different performance requirements. In a low-density resource pool, using Hyper-V 3.0 to let virtual machines use more virtual CPU and memory, greatly enhance the performance of these virtual machines to ensure the continuous stability of key applications; for virtual machines in high-density resource pools, Hyper-V 3.0 is used to dynamically allocate resources on demand between virtual machines. Implement reuse of resource pool underlying resources.

After introducing the Windows Server 2012-based private cloud platform, Jinjiang Hotel fully integrates both IT resources and equipment, while compatible with various types of external storage, and Jinjiang hotel existing network equipment also fully integrated, to help Jinjiang hotel to achieve the inclusion of computing, A unified resource pool for storage and network resources.

NetApp Cloud storage is a perfect match for Microsoft's private cloud

In the Enterprise IT architecture, computing resources and storage resources complement each other, who can not be separated from, whether in the traditional C/S architecture era or today is moving towards the era of cloud computing. The private cloud platform of Jinjiang Hotel is also the key element of storage.

The Jinjiang Hotel uses NetApp storage devices. "NetApp is the world leader in storage and data management," said Chen Wenjun, global vice president for NetApp and president of Greater China. As the winner of Microsoft's 2012 Private Cloud Partnership Award, we are committed to working closely with Microsoft to develop and deliver innovative storage and data management solutions for Microsoft technologies that help domestic customers achieve a highly efficient and flexible it foundation and drive cloud changes. With support for Windows Server 2012, NetApp simplifies storage and data management, speeding up public cloud, private cloud, and mixed cloud migrations. The Jinjiang International Hotel integrates Microsoft's private cloud solutions with NetApp storage solutions, greatly enhancing its IT support for business development, and providing a strong backend advantage for the company's development, as another example of Microsoft's development with NetApp solutions. ”

Putting NetApp cloud storage on top of Microsoft's private cloud platform is a perfect fit. With the Scom plug-in, snapdrive software and Snapmanager for Hyper-V set specially developed by NetApp for Microsoft Private cloud platform, seamless integration and unified management of storage and private cloud platform is realized, and the complexity of operation dimension is greatly reduced.

NetApp's unified storage capabilities also provide the FCP protocol and CIFS protocol support required by Microsoft's private cloud platform in the unified architecture to further enhance the flexibility and scalability of the platform; NetApp-specific Flashcache technology compensates for the traditional problems faced by private cloud platforms, such as start storm, login delay, antivirus centralized scan, patch update, etc. NetApp's full protocol deduplication reduces the capacity consumption of Microsoft's private cloud platform, saves space for businesses, and lowers costs; In addition, NetApp's multi-tier data architecture supports multiple types of disk mixes, Reasonable distribution of different data, improve storage efficiency, such as databases and other high-performance applications using high-speed disk, file sharing data, backup data use large-capacity disk.

In addition, NetApp offers a number of unique cloud storage technologies that provide strong storage capabilities for private cloud platforms. Like NetApp's unique Snaprestore snapshot technology, the Snapmanager for Hyever-v Suite is specifically available for second-level backup and recovery of Microsoft's private cloud platform data Flexclone technologies that provide true data cloning capabilities do not require additional space to instantly replicate complete data volumes or datasets; NetApp's Snapvault technology integrates Microsoft's private cloud platform and called backup solutions online to improve the protection of the entire private cloud platform's data. Combined with the data deduplication, not only protects the data, but also saves more than 90% of the storage space.