Brief introduction:On July 14, Ali cloud new product release conference, Ali cloud hybrid cloud product director Xie Ning officially announced the heavy upgrade of Ali cloud hybrid cloud APSARA Stack: enterprise version capability comprehensive upgrade, agile version scene new release, for the government and enterprises to build the cloud high-speed.
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On July 14, Ali cloud new product release conference, Ali cloud hybrid cloud product director Xie Ning officially announced the heavy upgrade of Ali cloud hybrid cloud APSARA Stack: enterprise version capability comprehensive upgrade, agile version scene new release, for the government and enterprises to build the cloud high-speed.
The solution of “one cloud and many regions” under the hybrid cloud mode is one of the important capabilities of this upgrade. Multiple regions can be layered deployed on demand, and each Region is interrelated and unified managed.
What is this “one cloud” and “many Region”? What problems can an enterprise solve with this architecture?
Multi-region: Large deployment scale and cross-region disaster recovery
As we know, large institutions or large enterprise business all over the country even the world, usually tend to choose the group headquarters set up their own “proprietary cloud”, under the headquarters has a lot of hierarchical functional organization, functions of each agency will run separate cloud to form a ecological group within the cloud, for the score of this complex type scenarios, The multi-region architecture can well support business interconnection and achieve higher and more flexible workloads through large-scale deployment. Different from the traditional practice of cascading multiple physical clusters to form a super-large scale, a single Ali-cloud hybrid cloud cluster can exceed 10,000 units. There are two advantages: one is that resources within a single cluster can be flexibly called; the other is that cross-domain big data computing is supported, so that resources and computing power can truly be “a cloud”. Increase the scalability of the cloud platform and significantly reduce management complexity and cost.
However, with more regions, the guarantee of security and stability becomes particularly important. Ali Cloud hybrid cloud designs a “strong headquarters management and control + hierarchical cloud” scheme for super-large complex scenes. In the central Region of the headquarters and the unit Region of each hierarchical cloud, It can establish intra-city disaster tolerance to ensure high service availability and disaster tolerance switching capacity within the current Region; However, remote disaster tolerance can be established between each unit Region and unit/center Region to support disaster tolerance from any Region to another cloud. In this way, the failure of central Region or any unit’s Reigon will not affect other regions and ensure the continuous and uninterrupted operation of system services.
In addition to the guarantee at the moment of failure, daily data can be backed up across Region through multiple regions to one Region or another cloud. Even if a fault really occurs, data can also be quickly restored.
One cloud: unified management, operation and maintenance of the hybrid cloud management platform from the center to branches
If multiple regions solve the interconnection and security isolation of multiple clouds within enterprises, then one cloud is to solve the management, operation and maintenance of multiple clouds in complex scenarios.
The central Region where the headquarters is located can effectively manage multiple regions through Apsara Uni-Manager, which is an enterprise-level cloud management platform oriented to Ali Cloud’s proprietary cloud and mixed cloud scenarios, providing a full range of cloud resource supply, operation and operation management capabilities. It has the core competitiveness of integrated management and control, automatic operation and maintenance, intelligent analysis and personalized expansion, and is committed to simplifying hybrid cloud management.
Faced with the management of complex organizational structure in large enterprises, central Region can be regarded as the headquarters of the organization, while hybrid cloud management platform is the intelligent commander stationed in the headquarters. It mainly adopts the decentralization and domain management model. In terms of the use and maintenance of cloud resources, the administrator with the authority of a regional resource management can only manage the equipment in his own region and use related functions, and cannot manage the resources and equipment in other regions. At the level of business and data configuration, administrators of each management region also need to pay attention to the business and data resources of their own region, and cannot view or modify resources of other regions without authorization.
Through the hybrid cloud management platform, the sub-domain cooperation mode under the centralized management mode is formed, so that the central Region and common Region are built in provincial units, deployed across local networks, shared resources and coordinated management, and the supporting investment is saved.
At the same time, the flexible switching and configuration ability of Region Centralized Management or Edge Region Autonomous Management can make the maintenance management more flexible, make full use of regional operation and maintenance resources, improve the efficiency of regional operation and maintenance, reduce the pressure of product use and operation of the Region where the Central Region is located, so as to optimize the operation and maintenance process of cross-regional collaboration.
In addition to a cloud over, ali cloud hybrid cloud can currently support flying X86 operating system compatibility, ARM, RISC – V chip architecture, a variety of traditional IT time build IT around the chip, but cloud computing radically changed the model, the cloud operating system server chip, chip can be encapsulated into a standard hardware such as force, Whether the underlying chip is X86, ARM, RISC-V or hardware acceleration, we provide customers with standard, high-quality cloud computing services.
Best practice for one cloud, many regions
At present, many leading enterprises in government affairs, media, energy and other industries have adopted Ali Cloud’s “One Cloud Multiple Region” solution. For example, an energy company has built 3 headquarters data centers and 13 provincial (municipal) data centers, and deployed servers (including internal and external networks) totaling more than 11,000 units. The data center of the provincial (municipal) branch company and the three “central regions” of the headquarter form “a cloud” with physical decentralization and unified logic, which can carry out unified account authority management, unified resource monitoring and scheduling, unified service and management, unified operation and maintenance, unified data development and service.
conclusion
On this day in 2021, the cloud already deep into the part of the enterprise, from the “cloud” to “innovation” on the cloud, the cloud business scale and complexity is obvious growth, ali cloud hybrid cloud security and stability in providing services, on the basis of aims to build cloud is simpler, GuanYun finer, more efficient with cloud, really help enterprise business run faster, more income.
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