Microsoft and NetApp match together

As one of the largest hotel management groups in Asia, the strategic core of Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotel Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jin Jiang Hotel) is to build the Jinjiang brand into a stable domestic hotel brand and become a high-end international company. The hotel brand will become a world famous brand in the next 5 to 10 years. As of the end of 2011, Jinjiang Hotels has 858 hotels operating and under construction in China. The rooms are located in nearly 200 cities in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China. In overseas business, Interstate Hotels & Resorts, LLC, which holds 50% of Jinjiang Hotels, manages nearly 400 hotels in nine countries around the world.

Jin Jiang Hotel knows that in order to become a truly world-renowned brand, its IT infrastructure must first be kept up. In the past, the status of self-construction, maintenance and management of IT equipment and resources by various branches has been unable to adapt to the hotel group. The pace of rapid development. If a new hotel is to be built, IT facilities need to be commissioned for a long time before they can be put into use; in the daily management process, the unreasonable distribution of computing resources and storage resources still exists. In order to meet the current business development needs and support the strategic goals for the next 5-10 years, Jinjiang Hotel decided to establish a secure, stable and flexible cloud computing platform, which will reduce its IT architecture from decentralization to concentration. At the same time of IT operation costs, IT value is enhanced, and it can provide strong support for the expanding business needs of each hotel under the demand, and lay a solid foundation for the migration of more and more hotel management application systems to the cloud platform in the future.

IT department becomes a real service provider

Due to the involvement of multiple business units of Jinjiang Hotels Group, the private cloud is being built When the platform is used, it is shared, jointly constructed and centrally managed by its three independent legal entities. Corresponding to the system of independent accounting of all business units within the group, each business unit also separately charges when using private cloud platform resources. By providing a dynamic resource pool, it truly achieves intensive management of group computing resources and storage resources. And on-demand consumption. Its IT department began to provide the services users need, like a real IT service provider, and charged on-demand, and gradually built a streamlined, standardized IT operation and maintenance system.

The private cloud platform is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012. Xie Enwei, vice president and general manager of marketing strategy at Microsoft Greater China, said, “as the only one capable of providing a complete cloud service. IT vendors, Microsoft has extensive experience in its own applications and industry services in the cloud computing field. After deploying the private cloud platform, Jinjiang Hotels Group's business units can obtain isolated and personalized IT services, and business processing and IT system development are no longer constrained by existing hardware resources, procurement time and other factors, accelerating IT. The ability to increase speed can maintain a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business environment. “

By combining the features of Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0, you can provide hosting, application monitoring, performance extension and other support to the business units of the group to realize business units. The isolation between resource usage and network access, as well as the flexibility to perform billing and quota management for the cloud platform.

In order to meet the different needs of different types of applications, the solution built two resource pools based on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.0 to accommodate virtual machines with different performance requirements. In the low-density resource pool, using Hyper-V 3.0 to allow virtual machines to use more virtual CPUs and memory, greatly improving the performance of these virtual machines, ensuring continuous and stable operation of critical applications; for virtual machines in high-density resource pools Then, Hyper-V 3.0 is used to dynamically allocate resources dynamically between virtual machines to realize the reuse of the underlying resources of the resource pool.

After introducing the Windows Server 2012-based private cloud platform, Jin Jiang Hotel fully integrates existing IT resources and equipment, and is compatible with various types of external storage, as well as Jinjiang’s existing network equipment. Fully integrated to help Jinjiang Hotel achieve a unified resource pool including computing, storage and network resources.

NetApp Cloud Storage and Microsoft Private Clouds

In enterprise IT architecture, computing resources and storage resources complement each other, no one is away Who is open, whether in the era of traditional C/S architecture or the era of cloud computing that is now moving towards. The private cloud platform of Jin Jiang Hotel naturally has this key element of storage.

The Jin Jiang Hotel uses NetApp storage. NetApp Global Vice President, Greater China President Chen Wenjun said: "NetApp is a global leader in storage and data management. As a recipient of Microsoft's 2012 Private Cloud Partner Awards, we are committed to working closely with Microsoft to develop and deliver innovative storage and data management solutions for Microsoft technologies to help domestic customers achieve an efficient and flexible IT foundation. Promote the transition to the cloud. With support for Windows Server 2012, NetApp simplifies storage and data management and accelerates public, private, and hybrid cloud migrations. Jinjiang International Hotel integrates Microsoft's private cloud solution with NetApp storage solution, greatly enhances its IT support for business development, and brings a strong late-comer advantage to the company's development. It has become a joint effort between Microsoft and NetApp solutions to help enterprises develop. An illustration. “

Putting NetApp cloud storage on top of Microsoft's private cloud platform is a perfect match. Through the SCOM plug-in, SnapDrive software and SnapManager For Hyper-V integration suite specially developed by NetApp for Microsoft private cloud platform, the seamless integration and unified management of storage and private cloud platforms are realized, and the operation and maintenance complexity is greatly reduced.

NetApp's unified storage function can also provide FCP protocol and CIFS protocol support required by Microsoft Private Cloud Platform in a unified architecture to further enhance platform flexibility and scalability; NetApp's unique FlashCache technology makes up Traditional issues faced by private cloud platforms, such as boot storms, login delays, anti-virus centralized scanning, patch updates, etc.; NetApp's full protocol deduplication feature reduces the capacity consumption of Microsoft's private cloud platform, saving space for enterprises. Reduce costs; In addition, NetApp's multi-layer data architecture can support multiple types of disk intermixing, rationally distribute different data, and improve storage efficiency. High-performance applications such as databases use high-speed disks, file-sharing data, and backup data. Large capacity disk.

In addition, NetApp offers a number of unique cloud storage technologies that provide superior storage for private cloud platforms. For example, NetApp's exclusive SnapRestore snapshot technology specifically provides the SnapManager For Hyever-V suite for second-level backup and recovery of Microsoft Private Cloud platform data; FlexClone technology that provides true data cloning capabilities instantly replicates complete without additional space Data volumes or data sets; NetApp's SnapVault technology integrates Microsoft's private cloud platform and D2D backup solution online, improving the protection of data across the private cloud platform, combined with deduplication, not only protects data, but also saves 90% The above storage space.