Hyper-V Private Cloud Solution based on Huawei Infrastructure
Hyper-V is another popular virtualization platform, in addtion to
Vmware, Zen and KVM. The Hyper-V Fast Track solution jointly
released by Microsoft and Huawei is designed to address customers'
requirements for private cloud. This solution integrates Microsoft
platform with HUAWEI servers, storage systems, switches, and
value-added software. The Microsoft-certified configuration
optimization and unified deployment guide provides instructions for
customers on how to accelerate evolution of IT infrastructure to
private cloud, facilitating cloud applications.
This solution offers a highly scalable and trustworthy platform
where small-sized enterprises and branches can easily obtain
substantial benefits generated by the powerful cloud computing
capability and do not need to face the complexity occurred during
solution planning and implementation.
Background and Challenge
As the enterprise businesses grow fast, traditional data centers
consume increasing energy, space, and costs. Therefore, most
enterprises are facing challenges driven by high energy consumption
and cost, and low efficiency.
To address the preceding challenges, the virtualization-based
private cloud solution is quickly developed and widely accepted by
enterprises in recent years. With its outstanding features such as
resource sharing, self-service applications, flexible expansion,
data security, and business availability, the private cloud solution
helps those enterprises maximize resource utilization, reduce
operating costs, and ensure business quality and security.
Solution
Huawei Hyper-V Fast Track private cloud is
composed of Huawei new-generation servers,
storage systems, and
switches as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
virtualization platform. Simple and easy-to-deploy, the private
cloud solution can be flexibly expanded when required.
The solution provides the following features:
High availability
- The dual-controller architecture designed for HUAWEI
OceanStor T series storage systems and the full-switch redundant
network consisting of two Quidway S5700
Huawei switches and two Tecal
RH2288 V2 servers ensure that no single points of failure
may occur in the system.
- The Hyper-V failover cluster function deployed in the
high-availability hardware platform enables the virtual machines
deployed in the cluster to have a powerful fault tolerance
capability. When a node in the cluster fails, the virtual
machine residing on this node will be automatically migrated to
another node to ensure business continuity.
Real-time migration of virtual machines
During the process of load balancing or system
maintenance, a virtual machine can be migrated from one server to
another
server in real time. This contributes to zero downtime while
reducing the maintenance pressure of the system administrator.
Template-based virtual machine preconfiguration
The virtual machine template is used by
administrators to implement quick deployment of virtual machines.
Highlights
Quick deployment and flexible expansion
- Computing, storage, and network solutions are authenticated
in advance to implement quick preconfiguration of virtual
machines in the event that the underlying infrastructure
resources are ready.
- An infrastructure can be quickly established to alleviate
market pressure and implement quick capacity expansion and
smooth migration to respond to the changing requirements on IT
resources.
Low risks
- The hardware platform's excellent fault tolerance capability
and Windows Server 2012's advanced detection and event response
mechanism can automatically detect and process system errors
without any downtime.
- Virtual machine density is increased while high performance
is being maintained. The system status is monitored so that a
bottleneck can be detected and eliminated in a timely manner.
Efficient and intelligent hardware platform
- The integration of HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 series servers and
OceanStor T series unified storage presents outstanding system
performance and excellent scalability.
- Value-added features of Huawei T series storage, such as
Smart Cache, Smart Thin, SmartTier, and SmartQoS, greatly
increase system efficiency.
- HUAWEI OceanStor T series storage systems with
industry-leading performance and specifications and
comprehensive smart resource management provide an efficient and
reliable storage platform for a virtualized structure.
- All hardware components are delivered by Huawei, ensuring
fast business response and proven business quality.
Low TCO
- The cost-optimized small-scale private cloud solution
facilitates management optimization and business consolidation,
which allows companies to start at a small size and grow as
needed.
- Perfect integration of Huawei infrastructure and Microsoft
operating system cuts customer's total cost of ownership (TCO)
and implements capacity expansion when necessary.
Deployment
For detailed instructions on how to deployment this solution,
please refer to the
Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Deployment Guide on Huawei Server
and Storage System. ActForNet also provide
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