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VMware-to-ZStack Case Collection
The report provides three major
solutions and customer case studies for transitioning from VMware to ZStack.
Overview
Industry Background
Data center virtualization has become an industry trend in the enterprise IT landscape. As IT infrastructure continues to scale, the complexity of management increases significantly. By enabling dynamic scheduling and allocation of IT infrastructure resources, next-generation data centers leveraging virtualization technologies can effectively address multiple challenges inherent in traditional IT architecture, such as low resource utilization, heightened data security risks, complex system maintenance, and prolonged service deployment cycles. However, with the growing number of high-performance applications, effectively mitigating challenges related to performance, security, stability, and compatibility has become a critical focus for the evolution of virtualization technologies and a fundamental requirement for platform selection.
About ZStack ZSphere
Based on the core principle of high performance, high security, high reliability, and high independence, ZStack ZSphere integrates the powerful ZStack Cloud engine with 4S characteristics. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as server virtualization, network virtualization, and storage virtualization, it also incorporates intelligent advanced O&M capabilities, positioning itself as a next-generation server virtualization solution. With ZStack ZSphere, you can rapidly build virtualized data centers or deploy integrated solutions spanning from IaaS to PaaS by leveraging ZStack's diverse products.
Applications
High-Performance Workloads/Database Virtualization Transformation:
As the core of modern applications, databases are responsible for storing, managing, and processing large volumes of data. Their performance and reliability are critical to application stability. ZStack ZSphere virtualization technology provides resource isolation and scalability, enabling more efficient management of hardware resources of database servers. Virtualization supports dynamic allocation and adjustment of server resources, such as memory, CPU, and storage, to meet the needs of diverse applications. Additionally, ZStack ZSphere delivers flexible backup and recovery capabilities, along with high availability and fault tolerance.
Intelligent Production:
ZStack ZSphere delivers a robust digital foundation that supports the deployment of key business systems such as DMP, ERP, and OA. By integrating next-generation AI technologies with the virtualization platform and advanced manufacturing techniques, it enables predictive management, informatized operations, and data-driven product lifecycle management.
Typical use cases include:
- Production Testing: ZStack ZSphere facilitates product testing and simulation by replicating real-world production environments and process flows. This allows for performance prediction and process optimization, reducing the need for physical tests and minimizing trial-and-error costs.
- Supply Chain Management: ZStack ZSphere enables supply chain information sharing, real-time demand forecasting, and dynamic resource allocation, significantly improving supply chain responsiveness.
- Equipment Maintenance: Through ZStack ZSphere, physical devices can be converted into virtual instances, supporting remote monitoring, fault diagnosis, and maintenance. This enhances equipment availability while reducing maintenance costs.
- Training and Education: ZStack ZSphere allows the creation of virtual training environments that simulate real production scenarios and operational procedures. This helps employees acquire and master production skills, leading to higher efficiency and quality.
Production Environment Resource Hosting:
Traditional production environments often face challenges such as complex configuration and deployment, environmental conflicts, physical resource constraints, data security risks, and difficult troubleshooting. ZStack ZSphere effectively addresses these issues through the following capabilities:
- Rapid Deployment and Environment Isolation: ZStack ZSphere enables quick provisioning of virtual machines, streamlining environment setup and configuration. It allows the creation of multiple isolated virtual environments tailored to different development and testing projects, preventing inter-project interference and improving R&D efficiency.
- Efficient Utilization of Physical Resources: By pooling and sharing physical server resources through virtualization, ZStack ZSphere allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This improves resource utilization and reduces hardware costs. It also supports dynamic resource allocation to adapt to changing business needs.
- Business Data Security Protection: ZStack ZSphere supports on-demand VM snapshot creation, enabling rollback when necessary to safeguard business data and ensure operational stability and reliability.
- Flexible Development Environments: ZStack ZSphere provides adaptable development environments for business teams. Each developer can work within their own VM for development and testing, independently managing and configuring their environment to avoid conflicts and enhance both productivity and output quality.
- Fault Isolation and Fault Tolerance: ZStack ZSphere ensures that if one virtual machine fails, others continue operating normally. This reduces downtime caused by software or hardware failures and enhances business continuity and stability.
Next Chapter: Technical Advantages