What is an enterprise private cloud?

A private cloud is a computing model that uses resources dedicated to your organization. Private clouds have many of the same characteristics as public clouds, including resource sharing, self-service, flexibility, and pay-per-use provided in a standard manner, and dedicated resources provide additional control and customization.

Private Clouds (Private Clouds) are built for a single customer to use, thus providing the most effective control over data, security and service quality. The company owns the infrastructure and can control how applications are deployed on this infrastructure. Private clouds can be deployed in the firewall of an enterprise data center, or they can be deployed in a secure hosting location. The core attribute of private clouds is proprietary resources.

From traditional computer room to enterprise private cloud

Improve equipment utilization

The traditional computer room is always adding equipment, but the resource utilization of the old equipment is very low, and the computing power and storage space are largely idle. Trying to run multiple services on the same physical machine can easily lead to conflicts. Wasted by resources.

Enterprise private clouds can run services on virtual machines through virtualization technology. When the load is low, one physical machine can run multiple virtual machines at the same time, which greatly reduces hardware costs.

Smooth upgrade

When a certain service load increases or the equipment is old and needs to be upgraded, the traditional computer room needs to face a voluminous and extremely risky project. Migration failures and environmental incompatibility occur from time to time, and service interruption is inevitable.

Under the enterprise private cloud platform, resources can be dynamically added to the business at any time. Even if the resources of the entire platform are insufficient, you only need to simply add new equipment and then join the platform. For the business, there is no environmental change, and the business will not be interrupted.

High reliability

In the traditional computer room, when a physical device fails, it means that the business running on the device is interrupted. It takes a lot of time for the business to resume operation, and it may even be impossible to recover, which will bring immeasurable losses to users.

Enterprise private cloud does not have this problem. When a host physical machine fails due to hardware or network problems, the platform can migrate services to another host in real time, and the switching process is calculated in seconds.

Low management cost

In the traditional computer room era, the operation and maintenance of equipment is a very costly task. This is largely due to the differences between equipment. Different equipment, manufacturers, hardware architectures, operating systems, etc. are different, and it is difficult to unify them. Way to monitor.

Enterprise private cloud platforms are different. All physical devices and virtual machines are treated as a unified platform. They can be monitored in a unified way without any additional work. Problems are proactively alerted. The platform can also provide predictive suggestions based on operating trends. The efficiency of operation and maintenance is greatly improved.

Technical advantages

Comprehensive cross-platform support

Suoxiang private cloud solutions support heterogeneous multi-hypervisor environments (Hyper-V, XenServer, VMware ESX/ESXi), operating systems (Windows, various Linux, such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS), and application development frameworks ( .NET, Java, Ruby, Python), allowing customers to leverage their existing infrastructure investments and skills. In addition, Suoxiang provides cross-platform monitoring of Linux/Unix clients (via System Center Operations Manager), cross-platform configuration management (via System Center Configuration Manager), and integrated systems from traditional vendors (such as HP, CA, and BMC) Automated cross-platform management tool set (via System Center Orchestrator).

low cost

During the construction phase, the private cloud solution of Suoxiang is based on linux technology. In the process of computer room reconstruction, only a small amount or even no need to purchase software licenses are often required, which can save a lot of money. After the establishment of an enterprise private cloud, one server can often bear the original business volume of 20-50 sets, and some non-core businesses can also replace the active and standby machine backup mechanism through the failover cluster function. According to calculations by enterprises, after the establishment of the private cloud, the company can continue to reduce the purchase of basic software and hardware by at least 50%. At the same time, the maintainability, stability, and flexibility of IT infrastructure have been qualitatively improved.