After 13 years of development, Inspur Yunhai has formed a Yunhai product family represented by server virtualization, hyper-convergence, and InCloudOS. With its leading product technical capabilities and the richest industry practices, it can meet the needs of customers in different industries and scenarios. Cloud requirements. In this process, Inspur Yunhai has also experienced a transformation from growth to maturity, and its overall market performance has been unanimously recognized by the industry.
Picture: Pang Kangyu, Director of Inspur Data Cloud Computing Products
Product leadership provides basic guarantee for ecological win-win
With in-depth research on the private cloud market and customer needs, and continuous efforts at the research and development level, Inspur Yunhai's performance in the private cloud field has been unanimously recognized and recommended by international authoritative IT analysis institutions and evaluation institutions.
Figure: Inspur Yunhai leads the industry in hyper-convergence
In the evaluation of SPECvirt, the world's authoritative standard performance evaluation organization, Inspur Yunhai server virtualization system InCloud Sphere once again broke the SPECvirt world record, scoring 6812 points, which is 25% higher than the previous generation's world record. A score of 6812 means that a two-way NF5280 G7 server can run 378 heavy-duty virtual machines such as DB2 database and WebSphere middleware at full load.
Secondly, Inspur Yunhai Hyperconvergence was selected into the "Gartner Global Integrated System Market Guide Report" this year and is a recommended benchmark supplier. As the global hyperconverged market enters a mature mainstream stage, Gartner continues to study the market in the form of a market guide. Therefore, this guide is the most heavyweight Gartner report in the field of hyper-convergence in 2023, and is the vane of global hyper-convergence market supply.
At the same time, the server virtualization system InCloud Sphere was also successfully selected into Gartner's "Market Share Analysis: 2022 Global Software Industry Market Size Report", ranking first in the domestic server virtualization market share and among the top four in global market share.
In addition, according to a report by IDC, another international authoritative consulting organization, in IDC's "2023 Q1 China Software-Defined Storage and Hyperconvergence Market Research Report", Inspur Cloudsea Hyperconvergence ranked among the top three in China in terms of market share in the first quarter of 2023, continuing to dominate. Ranking in the first camp, it has achieved the first growth rate for four consecutive years. It has ranked first in the domestic market in three major industries: finance, energy and construction. The financial industry is a touchstone for testing product capabilities, and Inspur Yunhai hyper-convergence has been widely recognized for its ability to carry the core business of the production environment of financial customers.
Complete server ecological support
At the product level, Inspur Yunhai has built a complete product ecosystem relying on a rich multi-hardware platform system, and has the most comprehensive and multi-architecture hyper-converged product line, including 1U servers, GPU computing servers, storage servers, etc.
With the expansion of new technology application scenarios, enterprises need full-stack support capabilities across multiple technical routes. Inspur Yunhai hyper-convergence provides multi-architecture CPU support and can realize computing resource pooling for multi-source heterogeneous chips such as x86 and ARM. Users only need to use a lightweight cloud management platform to shield the underlying hardware from the architecture and computing power. differences in other aspects to achieve unified management and flexible use of heterogeneous resources.
In the cloud-edge collaboration scenario, Inspur Yunhai and the edge computing product line have jointly created edge site solutions for mining, high-speed and other industries. Edge node deployment is based on the 600S edge computing platform to meet the needs of branch offices and edge outlets.
RDMA hyper-converged technology stack leads the industry
Inspur Yunhai has always been at the forefront in controlling future technological directions. Under the national strategic layout of “digital computing in the east and computing in the west”, computing and network integration has become an important direction in a new round of national competition. RDMA is one of the important technology trends. In terms of the One RDMA standard specification led by the Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Inspur Yunhai is the standard drafting unit of the One RDMA organization. One RDMA aims to achieve fast computing power scheduling and computing power interconnection between nodes, fast computing power scheduling between sites, and cross-site GPU scheduling.
In early June, Inspur Yunhai released a new generation of InCloud Rail G7 series of hyper-converged all-in-one machines. Based on the integrated design of full-stack RDMA protocol software and hardware, it achieves powerful performance of one million IOPS on three nodes and is at the forefront of the industry. The new generation architecture of hyper-convergence realizes the interconnection between network nodes and nodes based on RDMA, and the transmission protocol is replaced by RDMA from TCP. There are bottlenecks in network performance transmission between nodes based on the TCP protocol. If you want to improve IOPS, you need a better CPU. However, the RDMA protocol does not require I/O acceleration through the CPU. Distributed storage requests can directly transfer protocol format data Sent to the network card, the network card directly sends it to the destination address, bypassing the CPU for processing, thus freeing up the CPU computing power.
RDMA technology is also Inspur Yunhai’s strategic positioning and technological pursuit in the next few years. You must know that not every manufacturer can make an all-in-one RDMA protocol stack. This technology requires IT manufacturers to have full-stack product development capabilities from software to hardware to firmware to components to drivers. Relying on comprehensive software and hardware integration collaboration, Inspur Yunhai has achieved a preemptive advantage in the RDMA field by integrating software and hardware collaboration.
In addition, we usually think that RDMA requires lossless network networking. Lossless networks can provide good traffic management for the low-latency RDMA RoCE V2 protocol when facing congestion and improve network transmission performance. However, lossless networks require users to reinvest in network equipment. The construction has greatly raised the threshold for using the RDMA protocol. For reused network equipment, we designed and adapted iWARP, which helps users support RDMA network transmission without increasing network usage costs. At the same time, Inspur Yunhai and Inspur Network launched two high-performance 25G and 10G networking solutions. At the same time, Inspur Yunhai and the storage R&D department launched the self-developed GEN4 NVMe, an ultra-high-performance next-generation NVMe hard drive to support the RDMA transmission protocol. Realize the integration of the whole system from software to hardware.
Inspur Yunhai does this in the hope of achieving a 4-5 times improvement in storage performance without increasing customer costs. From network to computing power, RDMA replacing TCP has become a mainstream trend in the industry. RDMA replacing TCP requires the combination of software and hardware. Inspur Yunhai relies on the advantages of the server ecosystem to achieve all-round product and capability integration from the bottom to the upper layer, from hardware to system. Maximize the value of your advantages.
Taking financial customers as an example, more and more customers are beginning to prefer RDMA hyper-converged all-in-one machines because they fully realize the technical advantages of integrating software and hardware. Unlike the previous procurement of software and hardware separately. At the same time, we have also observed that the current trend of traditional architecture transformation for financial customers is to run containers based on ARM virtualization architecture instead of running containers directly on ARM servers. This also represents the future development direction of IT.
With the next-generation hyper-convergence of full-stack RDMA, Inspur Yunhai helps customers build RDMA lossless networks without increasing customer costs, thereby leading the future technology through software and hardware integration technology.
The full product solution provides a strong ecological base
Inspur Yunhai provides three product solutions. First, it presents a standard resource management platform with virtual machines as the core through iCenter. Second, we provide a lightweight cloud management platform for customers who have tenant work order approval needs and hardware management needs. Currently, lightweight cloud management platforms are widely used in scenarios such as universities and finance.
Third, we expect to release the new InCloud OS in October this year. This product is directly built on hyper-convergence and virtualization, and a private cloud environment can be deployed with just a few nodes. For partners in the Yuntu ecosystem, in the future, the cloud, data middle platform, business middle platform, etc. can be directly built on InCloud OS to achieve complementary capabilities and jointly provide customers with complete solutions and real value.
From the start of Yuntu Ecosystem in 2015, today the core strategy of "Platform + Ecosystem" is in its 8th year. We are also constantly thinking about and enriching the ways of cooperation with ecological partners. Through multiple ecological cooperation methods, we continue to practice the cooperation concept of strong alliance and mutual ecological cooperation:
- For Inspur Yunhai's main products, hyper-converged InCloud Rail and server virtualization InCloud Sphere, we provide product integration delivery and OEM, and provide partners with added value and project control through a stable and powerful product base.
- Platform + ecological business model, ecological productization, and product service-oriented. First, integrate partners’ applications into the Yunhai platform and release the application ecosystem. In particular, we can expect that after the new generation of InCloud OS platform is released, applications from ISVs and other partners can be easily integrated and combined. Secondly, all applications are released as a service, which is easy to use and deploy, thereby achieving rapid replication, agile release and massive deployment.
- Cloud platform JDM builds industry clouds with leading industry players. The cloud platform JDM model is a way for industry leading ISVs to provide CMP platform source code for business integration by Inspur Yunhai.
Based on the cloud platform JDM model, we have cooperated with leading ISVs in various fields such as energy, mining, rail transit, water affairs, etc. to jointly release smart industry solutions and build industry clouds in various fields.
Yuntu Ecosystem has clearly proposed the "2+3+100" plan to assist partners very early. Inspur Yunhai is committed to working with 100 leading ISVs to open up the CMP platform portal capabilities through the Yunhai platform and partner ecology, and jointly create industry applications. Jointly build industry cloud portals. ( Reprinted from the Inspur Yunhai public account)