Problems faced by enterprises
Storage facilities are divided into seven countries and eight departments, and hardware locking lacks flexibility.
Various cloud platforms have different storage requirements. Block/file/object storage corresponds to different types of applications and provides different service interfaces to the outside world. One storage device can't meet the storage requirements of various types of cloud platforms, and traditional storage can't meet the needs of online flexible storage expansion of large-scale cloud platforms in the cloud era. In terms of maintainability, it faces problems such as hardware architecture binding, complex operation and maintenance, and difficult maintenance, which will be further amplified with the increase of types and quantities of storage devices.
Business schedules change frequently and resources cannot be shared.
With the development and testing of virtual machines and the introduction of containers and micro-service platforms on enterprise private cloud platforms, the rapid iteration and frequent release of applications in large enterprises pose severe challenges to the support of storage systems. The data of different services are stored in different manufacturers' storage devices, and the data mobility is poor, which not only leads to a serious waste of storage space and performance resources, but also makes it difficult to unify data disaster recovery schemes.
Open source products are difficult to maintain and cannot be commercialized at the enterprise level.
Cloud platforms based on open source virtualization technology, such as OpenStack, provide many customers with the ability to quickly build private cloud infrastructure, but the storage part is different. Although open source storage systems such as Ceph can be deployed and tried on a small scale, they will encounter many problems when they are commercialized on a large scale: the ecological integration with hardware and enterprise applications is not high, and they rely heavily on manual development and operation, and they cannot meet the needs of core business in performance and service quality.
Shan Yan Private Cloud Storage Solution
Shan Yan private cloud storage solution gives full play to the advantages of cloud adaptation and openness of Shan Yan Unified Storage Platform (USP), supports various complex application loads, and can flexibly support virtualization platforms and private cloud platforms, such as VMware, Citrix, OpenStack, and all container cloud platforms that have passed the Kubernetes software consistency certification, such as Rancher, Openshift and Kubernetes.
Through the unified storage platform in Shan Yan, users can quickly build a unified storage resource pool that is compatible with all mainstream virtualization platforms and container microservice platforms. Faced with various requirements of virtual machines and micro-services, pooled storage platform provides reliable storage infrastructure support for large-scale cloud environment, helping users to get rid of complicated infrastructure operation and maintenance work and pay more attention to the business itself running on private cloud.
Customer value
Resource integration, linking enterprise information islands
A single resource pool provides various storage services for blocks, files and objects, and supports virtualization platforms and database applications; Strong life cycle management ability of storage resources, online migration of data across cloud platforms, data sharing and resource utilization; The QoS level and performance priority of storage volumes can be adjusted online, and resources can be allocated reasonably according to enterprise resources and business requirements.
Open and compatible, suitable for a variety of private cloud platforms.
Through VMware VAAI and Citrix Ready certification, I/O performance is optimized for mainstream virtualization platforms, which greatly improves the performance of virtual machine access. Through OpenStack Cinder authentication, it can provide block and object storage infrastructure support and CSI interface authentication of container platform, and provide block and file storage services for Kubernetes eco-container applications.
Intelligent management to solve large-scale operation and maintenance problems
Guided installation and deployment and self-service expansion configuration greatly improve ease of use and maintainability, and reduce operation and maintenance costs through management automation; For the reliability management of large-scale cluster optimization, the patented technology of hard disk soft error detection and repair saves users' hardware investment. The management function of storage perspective shows the mapping relationship and performance monitoring among host, container and storage intuitively, helping administrators to locate and solve problems quickly.