Source: The 5th Financial Data Intelligence Excellent Solution Selection of "Xinzhi Award"
Winner: New H3C Group
Won awards: experts recommend TOP10 excellent solutions, operation and maintenance innovation excellent solutions
1. Solution Brief
New H3C SeerFabric financial intelligent lossless data center solution includes switch, SDN-DC, centralized/distributed storage, hyperconvergence, security and other products, integrating RDMA, RoCE, iNoF, SDN, visualization, lossless Ethernet, and large bandwidth. Based on the cloud-edge AI collaborative architecture, the solution can build intelligent lossless control models for different business scenarios with the help of intelligent learning, realize intelligent identification of business scenarios, dynamically match the corresponding model parameters, and accurately forward and deterministic network experience with large bandwidth, low latency, zero packet loss, and be widely used in unified IP bearer of production operations, big data/AI computing, storage environments and other scenarios in the financial industry, so as to realize the construction of a new generation of lossless data centers in finance.
Second, the application scenario pain points introduction
Traditional data centers are typically built on multiple fabrics, including Ethernet for server interconnect, Fibre Channel (FC) for storage networks, and Infiniband (IB) for high-performance computing clusters. The financial core production data is stored centrally in the form of a database, and the data transmission is realized through the SAN network of the FC protocol; Backup archive data, as a copy of production data, built by backup mode, mainly near-line centralized storage and offline tape storage, transmission network using SAN network; AI big data is built by a big data platform, and the data adopts the distributed storage of the big data platform, and the AI network is dominated by the Infiniband network. Financial services, on the other hand, are carried via Ethernet. The data of the above three parts adopts different storage methods and network connection methods. However, IB and FC are only a few vendors in the world to provide technology, and they are completely interoperable with Ethernet. Under the background of independent and controllable construction of financial core technologies, it is necessary to break through the two most important technological monopolies of IB and FC.
With new developments in Ethernet, lossless Ethernet technology, high-performance Ethernet NICs supporting RDMA and MPI, and NVMe over RoCE all-flash storage systems, Ethernet-based data center networking solutions are beginning to replace Fibre Channel (FC) and InfiniBand solutions to provide equivalent or better performance. In addition, Ethernet solutions are generally more cost-effective and supported by more vendors. For these reasons, modern data centers are moving from a multiprotocol model to fully converged Ethernet.
3. Solution highlights
Localization: system-level end-to-end localization in the fields of network, computing, and storage;
Low cost: lower procurement cost than IB and FC networking;
High performance: Lower network congestion latency, upgrade core domain protocols, and significantly improve performance.
Simple O&M: Full IP integration in all Ethernet networking scenarios, convenient performance evaluation tools for delivery and service rollout, lossless O&M support capabilities across domains, intelligent SDN O&M management, rapid problem location, and in-depth service visualization to help optimize business processes more effectively, scenario-based network performance automatic tuning, automatic storage discovery, and convenient deployment.
4. List of customers in the financial industry
Guiyang Agricultural Commercial Bank, etc.
5. Customer evaluation
Guiyang Rural Commercial Bank adopts cloud computing and virtualization technology to build a lossless information creation cloud based on Haiguang server; At the same time, hyper-convergence, Haiguang server, and RoCE switch are used to replace the traditional optical fiber switch networking to achieve the implementation of lossless transmission functions. The innovative end-to-end RDMA solution achieves a substantial breakthrough in replacing FC with RoCE SAN.
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