In mid-August, the edge smart station EIS built by Mobile Cloud for an energy storage manufacturing company in Hui'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, was officially launched. This project is China Mobile’s first officially launched hyper-converged edge smart station project that integrates software and hardware and is fully autonomous and controllable .
Edge Intelligence Site (EIS, Edge Intelligence Site) is based on the mobile cloud edge hyper-converged computing base (EHCI, eCloud Edge Hyper-Converged Infrastructure), deploying cloud infrastructure at the user site, with data out of the field, ultra-low latency , resource exclusive and other characteristics of edge software and hardware integrated delivery products. It can meet the needs of users for low-cost operation, exclusive resource sharing, and out-of-market data . It provides a variety of cloud services such as virtual machines, containers, storage, networks, and mirroring, and provides management capabilities such as resource operation and maintenance monitoring.
EIS adopts a new generation of computing power infrastructure - EHCI, a mobile cloud edge hyper-converged computing power base, which has core advantages such as full-stack independent controllability, integration of storage and computing, and integrated bearing of edge applications:
① Self-controllable full stack: Relying on cloud-native technology solutions, unified containerized deployment, realizing virtual machines, containers, storage, and network sharing hardware devices, unified management solutions, effectively reducing the complexity of resource management, reducing the proportion of management resources, and achieving 100 % Self-developed and independent evolution;
② Integration of storage and computing: adopting a super-converged architecture of storage and computing to reduce dependence on expensive proprietary SANs, integrate virtual machines and container infrastructure, prevent infrastructure from being scattered, and effectively reduce overall infrastructure investment at the edge;
③ Integrated hosting of edge applications: For edge applications that are cost-sensitive, have diverse deployment locations, and require full-stack software delivery, the hyper-converged computing base can serve as a supplement to the traditional cloud base to carry upper-layer applications, effectively supporting the expansion of upper-layer application scenarios.
At the same time, EHCI provides a more efficient and lighter computing power foundation for the development of mobile cloud computing power. It is an important innovation field for the development of computing power network. The core features are reflected in the following two points:
lightweight
Three servers can build the smallest computing power unit
Relying on cloud-native technology solutions, unified containerized deployment, realizing virtualization, containers, storage, and network sharing of hardware devices, under the condition of the smallest three-node cluster, supports flexible and rapid expansion to 20 nodes according to actual business needs, and based on the hardware Under the conditions of completion, deployment can be completed within 30 minutes.
standardization
Unified interface saves time and improves security
Adhering to the principle that everything is a container, Mobile Cloud abandons the traditional privatized interface design and fully adopts standardized interfaces based on K8s. Whether users create container computing power or virtualized computing power, create network resources or create storage resources, they can all pass the standard The interface is managed by adding a Yaml file, which not only saves adaptation time, but also provides the most basic guarantee for the free migration of applications in the computing power network, killing two birds with one stone.
In addition, compared with related products of the same type of cloud vendors, Mobile Cloud EHCI has richer and more detailed functions as a whole, and it has strong IaaS capability support in terms of elastic computing, cloud storage, cloud network, management and monitoring, etc. . Including providing diversified computing power based on GPU and ARM cloud hosts to better meet new business needs such as edge computing and cloud computers, and providing tenant-level high-security and isolated network environments, etc., with high-level and easy-to-use cloud capabilities Meet the multiple scenarios and differentiated needs of users and lay a solid foundation for the development of computing power networks.
The integrated small station specification delivered by the EIS project of an energy storage manufacturing company in Huian, Quanzhou, Fujian has core advantages such as a small minimum starting scale (3 nodes can be delivered), integrated storage and computing, and a low proportion of management resources.
The project is deployed in the special computer room of the energy storage manufacturing company, which can provide customers with a full-stack hyper-converged cloud service platform integrating computing, storage, network, and operation and maintenance . At the same time, it minimizes customers' one-time initial investment; at the same time, it provides a local independent management platform and unified hosting and operation and maintenance through mobile cloud center OPS, reducing customer operation and maintenance management pressure and costs, and ensuring the stable operation of customers' smart factory applications.
Since 2023 alone, EIS has signed dozens of projects, covering multiple scenarios such as government affairs, big data, smart factories, smart parks, smart cities, education, and medical care . This year, edge smart stations will also be launched in Jiangmen, Zhenjiang, Cangzhou, Xuchang, Linfen and other cities.
In the future, Mobile Cloud will continue to deepen the field of edge cloud, provide customers with more flexible, efficient and secure edge cloud services, and help customers digitally transform and upgrade.