EDITORIAL
IT trend, together for a long minute, long period of division. After virtualization technology in 10 years, computing and storage separate traditional architecture is gradually being another, more simple, more efficient and reliable IT infrastructure replaced, this new era of cloud architecture is super integration.
Authority survey data show that in 2016, over the integration of sales rose 116%, to 2019, ultra-integration of the global market will exceed $ 100 billion. In China, the Internet industry is flourishing, cloud transformation of traditional industries, promote the comprehensive strategic Internet + ...... all of this, making China the world's fastest super-integration market infrastructure growth.
When a huge cake encountered are looking to emerging markets Lenovo Group, ultra-integration naturally became the basis for this strategic transformation of the traditional giants China IT. So, in the end it is how a super integration of IT infrastructure? Lenovo's ultra-integration and what features and benefits? Super Fusion can carry Lenovo's transformation dream? With these questions, we interviewed Dr. Gao Zhiguo, vice president of Lenovo's ultra-integration.
Now, let's take a listen, wonderful dialogue selection treasure Chief Architect Dr. Gao Zhiguo and Li Weiliang it.
Li Weiliang (moderator)
Fusion is a new generation of ultra-IT infrastructure, please first review the evolution of IT infrastructure for us.
Gao Zhiguo
Over the past three decades of historical research, we find that, IT infrastructure ten years will be a big change intervals. The 1996 is based on a single data center project construction, vertical "chimney" architecture, each server is isolated, we can not share resources with each other. The main problem "chimney" architecture are: IT infrastructure is more complex, the overall high cost, low efficiency, difficult to adapt to changing business needs.
In 2006, there have been represented with VMware virtualization technology. Virtualization technology a server into multiple virtual logic computer, the computer can run every logically different Caozuojitong, applications can run independently of each other in space and independently of each other, thereby significantly improves the efficiency of the server . At the same time, the virtual machine can drift and switch between different physical machines to improve service availability.
Virtualization shields the complexity of the system underlying IT, to achieve the reuse of resources, compared to the "chimney" architecture, scalability, self-help, measurable, cost, fault-tolerant, which have a huge boost. However, the traditional virtual machine architecture that will use SAN (Storage Area Network Storage Area Network) architecture, which provides storage space via proprietary storage devices. Complex structure and centralized storage management, high input costs and the use of cost, performance and capacity scale can not be done, and the different manufacturers and models of storage devices difficult to get through to each other, it is likely to cause "islands of information" phenomenon. These issues largely affect the efficiency and quality of information technology companies.
In order to solve the problems of traditional storage solutions, in 2016, over converged infrastructure (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, referred to as "HCI") was born.
Li Weiliang
Super Fusion is what kind of architecture? It is in what way, "fusion" What elements? "Super" word has been reflected in where?
Gao Zhiguo
Super Fusion architecture, refers to the same set of units in the device, not only have the computing, networking, storage and server virtualization technology and resources, but also cache acceleration, data deduplication, online compression, backup, snapshots and other elements. Moreover, multi-node through the network can be polymerized together seamlessly scale modular form a unified resource pool.
As a new technology architecture, ultra-integration of computing, storage and network resources, by way of software-defined, integrated into a single device, thus more fully play to hardware performance. Ultra Fusion Architecture is the most fundamental change is stored, from the original centralized shared storage, steering software-defined storage and distributed storage.
Fusion Super "super", corresponding to "Hyper-Converged" in "the Hyper." Super integration is not simply the original separate storage devices into a unified chassis, but in addition to this physical change, seek further chemical changes. This chemical change is that some of the original operating virtualization layer, such as snapshots and cloning virtual machines, etc., unloading and migrate to the storage layer to achieve, thus truly locality of reference, got a further boost in performance.
Li Weiliang
Super Fusion architecture is produced under what kind of background do?
Gao Zhiguo
Fusion Super core technology, comprising a distributed storage, scale, define the hardware and software, as well as the universal server hardware base, etc., from the Internet companies (such as Google, Facebook and Amazon) best practices. Therefore, we say, because the Internet is a fusion of ultra-born.
On the other hand, today's increasingly complex business needs change faster and faster, capacity and performance requirements of IT systems have become increasingly difficult to predict, with traditional architecture vertical extension has to do not meet the requirements. At the same time, more and more IT resources available today, more complex architecture, how to use a better infrastructure to serve the virtualization scenarios to meet business needs, has become a very urgent problem.
Under the dual drive technology advances and business needs, ultra-integration of architecture came into being.
Super Fusion is essentially a cloud architecture, to sum up in one sentence, that is: Ultra is a virtual fusion of classic architecture, is a private cloud best practices. Many people ask me: how to build a private cloud? How to reshape the company's IT infrastructure? The answer is simple, it is to use ultra-fusion!
Li Weiliang
What are the advantages over fusion of architecture have? What kind of value it can bring to users?
Gao Zhiguo
Ultra realized the integration of computing, storage and network resources, as well as cloud computing platform integrated management of efficient, highly simplified by providing one-stop infrastructure, effectively enhance the performance of the enterprise IT infrastructure maintenance and management efficiency critical applications .
I'm super integration of features and benefits summarized as three key words: reliable, rapid and worry.
As a service to enterprise-class IT infrastructure applications, the most important thing is tricky. Ultra Fusion provides for virtualization of enterprise data services, compared to traditional storage, ultra-integration of storage capacity can increase about 80%, and to achieve weight ratio of 1/20 and 3-5 on the amount of data of PB grade times the compression ratio. At the same time, we can do local data access rate of 95%, protect local data access. At the same time, second level virtual machine snapshot functional clone and unlimited storage layer realized, and seamless migration of the virtualization technology is based layer, you can achieve multiple protection and availability of multi-level data.
Ultra rapid integration of one machine, reflected in the high-performance, scale-efficient and integrated delivery capability. Performance, ultra-integration of four cluster nodes, for example, can have a capacity of 160,000 IOPS read and write mix, can serve one hundred thousand user mailboxes, or services to 500 virtual desktops. Super-scale integration is very simple, it will automatically node discovery, when a new node is inserted into the network, it will re-balance data, reallocate resources to new and old node node re-constitute a large pool of resources. Ultra fusion machine pre-installed at the factory and storage virtualization can be implemented out of the box and truly integrated delivery.
Peace of mind is another important advantage over integration, it provides a one-stop resource management and unified management UI, which greatly simplifies system operation and maintenance.
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Since the ultra-integration of demand expansion can be increased at any node, we no longer need a preset capacity for the future, therefore, the initial investment can be reduced by about 85%. From the operational costs, due to managed objects into a virtual machine, eliminating the need professional storage management, so that operating costs can be reduced by about 55%. Based on lower hardware costs, infrastructure costs and management costs, integration architecture enables ultra-three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) by 65%.
In an increasingly competitive, increasingly rapid changes in today's agile, becoming the first enterprise CIO's demands. The ultra-simple integration as the representative of IT infrastructure, IT staff can really be released, allowing them to focus on business innovation. I think this should be the core value over the integration bring business.
Li Weiliang
What users should consider deploying a private cloud-based ultra-integration?
Gao Zhiguo
Today, virtualization technology has been widely adopted enterprise, then, all business systems can be virtualized carrier, can run on super integration, ultra-integration is today virtualization best practices.
Super integration is universal, its typical application scenarios include: remote and branch offices, virtual desktops, disaster backup storage, R & D and testing, data services, Internet environment.
Li Weiliang
Thanks for sharing Dr. High.