With the vigorous development of securities business and new technologies, micro-services, containers, devops and other new technologies, the concept of a securities company is expanding the use of scale, which at the same time the securities company's IT infrastructure to put forward new demands to have its better flexibility, more agile. Super Fusion Architecture has elastic expansion, operation and maintenance simple, high performance, high reliability, and cost-effective features, more and more companies choose securities over converged infrastructure to support agile business.
Background and demand analysis for the first time deployed
In 2017, a securities company to be on the line three production systems, financial imaging system, risk control system documentation, information center system. For this project, the customer's expectations for:
1, on-line rapid: complete within three months on-line service system;
2, on-demand investment: lower initial investment cost, in order to cope with the unpredictability of the late business growth;
3, maintenance is simple: the customer's IT operation and maintenance manpower tight, you can reduce the difficulty of operation and maintenance.
Program initial system design is 10 * PC Server + 2 * + 2 * Disk Array Fiber Channel switches, but this program is facing many challenges:
1, slow: from planning program, to deployment, debugging, the entire length of the delivery period;
2, poor flexibility of investment: the initial purchase cost, post-expansion capacity is limited by the performance bottleneck of disk arrays;
3, maintenance complex: the need to maintain x86, disk arrays, operation and maintenance of high complexity.
solution
After the program to evaluate and compare the user decides to try ultra-integration programs and select the super SmartX integration solutions. The program uses five server Lenovo 3650 M5 + two Gigabit switches and Juniper SmartX Super Fusion software SMTX OS, to meet rapid deployment, on-demand investment, operation and maintenance simple request.
Compared to conventional solutions, SmartX ultra-integration program showing the following significant benefits:
1, high-performance, fully meet the business needs: five nodes up to 200,000 IOPS;
2, the glitch window, high reliability: the hard disk or node failure occurs, the recovery time is only 30% of the conventional architectures;
3, operation and maintenance is simple: standard x86 servers over Gigabit Switch + SmartX integration software +, only x86 server operation and maintenance, greatly reduce the IT operation and maintenance of the pressure;
4, reduce procurement costs: compared to traditional architectures, procurement costs by 30%.
Among them, the first of five planned Lenovo 3650 M5 node configuration is as follows:
The first expansion - expansion level server components
With the rapid growth of the business user, and the user benefits of convergence gradual recognition of SmartX over, the client put more and more systems integration in ultra-running SmartX. By 2018, there have been nearly 40 virtual machines running in the cluster SmartX super integration, business system requirements for storage capacity is increasing.
Most customers began to purchase Lenovo 3650 M5 only 128G memory, SSD 2 Kuai 800G intel 3710, and four 6T SATA disk. With the expansion of business scale, in a tight budget situation, in order to meet the business needs of high demand for storage systems, each client node adds a 1.92T of SSD, two 6T SATA disk. Effectively easing the pressure on storage.
In this case, the detailed configuration of the cluster are:
The second expansion - expansion server node level
With the development of business, to early 2019, the client's memory usage has exceeded 70%, and by May 2019, storage utilization even reached 99%, which requires the expansion of the cluster nodes to increase computing and storage capacity.
After needs analysis, this expansion is to increase customer 3 x86 servers. Because users can not guarantee full agreement of this brand and the early procurement of equipment, eventually purchasing x86 servers Xinhua three 4900S, and configure each node is:
After evaluation and validation, the expansion program SmartX Super Fusion software can still be a good SMTX OS support: the model and can be deployed in a cluster in the hardware compatibility list SmartX of different brands and different configurations in the list of compatible servers.
Finally SmartX ultra-smooth integration of clusters also expansion from five to eight nodes nodes, truly flexible expansion, investment demand.
Super Fusion for its operation and maintenance simple, flexible expansion characteristics, has become the first choice for more and more companies build IT infrastructure. As your business grows, demand for storage resources and computing resources will be more and more, how in the same cluster inside to support these requirements, a problem customers had to think about and deal with.
SmartX Super Fusion software SMTX OS for its good stability, excellent performance, good compatibility and ease of maintenance, are supporting more and more clients transform their IT infrastructure. At the same time, there are many customers with heterogeneous hardware solution, using a variety of server hardware brands, and products algebraic different CPU in the same cluster, different memory and SSD, such as different hardware specifications build SmartX ultra-integration program, and benefit from it.