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DATA CENTER TRANSFORMATION
with SANGFOR HCI Solution

Demand Analysis of Data Center Transformation

Exit of
Low Resource Utilization Rate Data Center
Need Consolidation Network Security Network Security
Equipment Equipment
Switch
Solve problems like space
constraints, power consumption,
difficulty of IT resource expansion
and complexity of multi-layer
Server +
management through virtualization. Hypervisor

Storage Network

External Storage

Use Server Virtualization Technology for Transformation

Exit of
Resource Bottleneck Data Center
Need Expension
Network Security Network Security
Equipment Equipment
Switch
Solve the problem of capacity and
performance shortage by purchasing
large amount of server, networking,
storage and security hardware
Server
devices.

Storage Network

External Storage

Add Hardware Devices for Transformation

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with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Problems and Challenges Faced by Traditional Transformation Approach

High Cost of Investment Big Impact on Business

Phase out existing IT hardware while purchasing Spend too much time on infrastructure tuning
new ones, such as storage devices with high and platform reconstruction, causing serious
performance and large capacity. impact on business, extending the on-line time
of new business.

Problems and Challenges

Faced by Traditional Transformation Approach

Heavy Workload of O & M Difficult to Scale Out

Not only complex management of server Subsequent platform expansion will be caught
virtualization platform, but also loads of in a circular construction mode of high upfront
maintenance for a large number of basic cost, negative impact on business and complex
network equipments, network security, operation and maintenance
storage hardware, ect.

The Ideal Data Center Transformation Approach

Lower TCO Simplified O&M Flexible IT Architecture Cloud Evolution

Significant reduction of Centralized, visualized Pay as you grow, modular Achieve the evolution
new hardware purchase, and automated IT expansion, no need to one step at a time,
maximize utilization rate resource management make changes to the transforming smoothly to
of existing IT devices existing infrastructure cloud architecture

Data Center Transformation with Sangfor HCI

Sangfor Hyper-Converged Infrastruture

aSV aSAN aNET NFV
Sangfor HCI deeply integrates compute,
storage, network and network functions
(security & optimization) into a standard x86
server by virtualization technology, forming a Compute Storage Network Network Function
standardized HCI unit. Through a WEB manage- Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
ment platform, multiple HCI units are integrated
into the data center as a whole IT infrastructure
and O&M is unified & visualized. As a result,
users can create new IT framework that is ultra- Sangfor HCI Simplified
simplified and can grow on-demand & evolve On-Demand
smoothly. Evolvable
 Sangfor New Generation HCI
Driving Hyperconvergence to Fully Converged

Solution Design Based on Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Software Resource Business Centralized Elastic

Installation Orchestration Migration O&M Expansion

Use existing servers Establish business Move physical hosts Centrally manage all Rapid expansion
or purchase Sangfor topology & allocate or third party VMs to IT resources with with one node at a
HCI appliance resources with “what HCI platform visualized trouble- time
you draw is what shooting and fault
you get” location

Before and After Deploying HCI

Business 1 Business 2 Business n Business 1 Business 2 Business n

Unified Resource Platform

With transformation from
Software-Defined Software-Defined Software-Defined
siloed IT to hyper-converged
Compute Storage Network
infrastructure, data reliability
transformed from relying on
hardware RAID to distributed
storage with multiple copies.
Rigid hardware rooted security
is transformed to flexible Existing Servers + HCI Software
software-defined.

Traditional DC Architecture HCI Architecture

Analysis of Solution Advantages and Values

One
Cloud
Management
Maximum Protection Huge Efficiency Platform Adapting to
for IT Investment Improvement for O&M Cloud Evolution

Making full use of existing Professional migration tool & Only one cloud management
server hardware, reducing drawable topology cut 50% of platform needed to create a
hardware cost by 40% with business downtime and 60% full cloud data center without
software defined compute, of operation & management any architectural change.
storage, network and security workload through centralized
instead of fragmented and management and visualized
proprietary hardware. fault detection.
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with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

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