Virtualization Suite

Data Sheet
 FusionSphere Virtualization Data Sheet

Contents

1 Service Challenges ........................................................................................................................ 1

2 FusionSphere Virtualization Suite Overview ......................................................................... 1
3 Advantages ..................................................................................................................................... 2
4 New Functions in FusionSphere 6.1 .......................................................................................... 2
5 Main Functions .............................................................................................................................. 3
5.1 Virtualization Management .............................................................................................................................. 3
5.2 DRS .................................................................................................................................................................. 3
5.3 DPM ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
5.4 SAP HANA ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
5.5 GPU Virtualization ........................................................................................................................................... 5
5.6 DPI Deep Scanning .......................................................................................................................................... 6

6 Feature List ..................................................................................................................................... 6

7 Technical Specifications .............................................................................................................. 8
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1 Service Challenges
As enterprises grow, their output and deployment of newly dedicated hardware devices increase
accordingly. With growth come IT infrastructure challenges, such as low resource utilization, high service
deployment costs, and long service deployment periods. In response to these new challenges, enterprises
have turned to cloud computing to implement data sharing, enhance resource utilization, and reduce
operation expenses (OPEX). Enterprises expect the IT infrastructure to meet requirements of up and
downstream service chains, as well as ensure service quality and security. In effort to meet these demands
and create more value from IT resources, Huawei provides enterprises with comprehensive FusionSphere-
based virtualization and cloud computing solutions.
FusionSphere is a Huawei-developed cloud OS designed for multiple industries. It helps enterprises
horizontally consolidate physical and virtual resources in data centers and vertically optimize service
platforms. Additionally, it can be used to facilitate the construction and use of cloud computing platforms.
FusionSphere also provides powerful virtualization, resource pool management functions, various cloud
infrastructure components, highly functional tools, and open application programming interfaces (APIs).
Furthermore, it supports both traditional and cutting edge services, thereby improving IT asset values,
increasing IT operating efficiencies, reducing O&M costs, and helping enterprises realize their low IT cost
with maximum return goals.

2 FusionSphere Virtualization Suite Overview

Huawei FusionSphere server virtualization suite consists of server virtualization products, resource
scheduling software, disaster recovery (DR) with backup software, and an operation monitoring system
with an analysis component. This suite virtualizes hardware resources while also centrally managing these
virtual resources and hardware devices. A summary of its capabilities is listed as follows:
 Basic backup and DR
 Management of multiple resource pools (including heterogeneous resources)
 Lightweight operation
 Cloud infrastructure services
 Graphical infrastructure performance reports
 Performance management

Figure 2-1 Introduction to the FusionSphere virtualization suite architecture

FusionSphere Virtualization Suite

Hardware infrastructure

Network
Server Storage

The components of the FusionSphere virtualization suite are described as follows:

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 FusionManager manages multiple cloud resource pools (including non-Huawei resource pools),
provides service catalogs, centralized monitoring, centralized O&M, automatic resource provisioning,
and lightweight operation.
 FusionCompute virtualizes servers, storage devices, and network resources in order to form elastic IT
resource pools, thereby implementing automatic resource scheduling and management.
FusionCompute includes the virtualization engine Compute Node Agent (CNA) and the resource
scheduling management software Virtual Resource Management (VRM).
 eBackup and UltraVR are backup and DR components, respectively. Together, they protect
applications, VMs, and disk arrays from data loss, by providing both array- and host-based
replications in conjunction with file-level DR plans.
 FusionSphere System Operation Insight (SOI) provides advanced analytical functions. It analyzes and
displays system infrastructure performance indicators in terms of system health, risks, and efficiency
levels. It analyzes dynamic thresholds and capacity compliance, while also providing predictions
based on these analyses, thereby implementing intelligent management. Therefore, with these features
SOI not only displays historical data, but also predicts future trends.

3 Advantages
Security and Reliability
 Supports complete backup and DR plans.
 Supports an agentless antivirus function, allowing centralized policy configuration.
 Supports VM disk data encryption, ensuring VM user data security.
 Supports TPM2.0 international specifications, satisfying compliance requirements.

Industry-Leading Performance
 FusionSphere has an excellent virtualization performance record (It outperforms other mainstream
industrial virtualization platforms in the SPECvirt test).
 FusionSphere is the optimal virtualized application platform, delivering equivalent performance as
that provided by physical servers.

Agility and Efficiency

 Rapid application deployment and efficient O&M
 End-to-end service migration capability

4 New Functions in FusionSphere 6.1

 Virtual Image Management System (VIMS) virtualization file system technology: The ADL disk lock
is introduced to release the file system from dependency on networks. The technology has been
thoroughly improved in regards to its installation, reliability, and extensibility.
 Live migration feature optimization: The overall migration duration decreases by 70%. In memory
overcommitment scenarios, the live migration feature is further optimized to decrease the migration
duration by 50%. System enhancements and pre-check technologies are introduced to greatly improve
the live migration success rate. Efficiency and stability of the live migration feature are improved.
 Non-zero page sharing and zero-page scanning optimization technologies: These technologies are
introduced to break through upper limit restrictions of the memory overcommitment ratio and
minimum reserved VM memory. These effectively increase the memory overcommitment ratio and
efficiency, thereby achieving optimal user experience.

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5 Main Functions
5.1 Virtualization Management
The FusionSphere virtualization suite provides complete VM lifecycle management, virtual resource
management, and virtual resource configuration management.
 VM lifecycle management: Includes VM management operations. You can create VMs as required and
obtain the real server experience. VM suspension, restoration, hibernation, and waking-up are all
supported. System restart and forced restart are also supported. After VMs are used, you can stop or
delete them. Deleted VM resources can be recycled as VM instances to create new VMs. Recycled
VM resources are entirely deleted, and therefore no data of recycled VMs resides in the system. You
can clone VMs in batches using newly created VMs or templates. VM memory snapshots and overall
VM snapshots are supported. The VM running status can easily be backed up. If necessary, you can
use snapshots or backups to restore a VM to a certain point in time. VM disks and the overall VM can
be migrated online or offline. Heterogeneous CPUs can also be live migrated.
 Virtual resource management: Allows you to integrate system resources while managing computing
resources by data center, cluster, host, and VM. It supports VM folder functions. With this function
you can divide and manage VM groups based on usages, specifications, and organizations. It also
supports VM right- and domain-based management, avoiding unauthorized operations on VMs.
Furthermore, through this feature host groups and templates can be managed.
 Virtual resource configuration management: Allows you to configure and manage resources used by
VMs. The VM CPU, memory, disk, NIC, and other peripherals can be adjusted online or offline. GPU
resource passthrough, virtualization, and resource pooling are supported. Single-root I/O virtualization
(SR-IOV) technology is supported. VM policies used for starting VMs can be customized. VNC
supports multi-language keyboards. PCI peripherals, such as DVD-ROM drive, USB, and GPU, can
be managed. Memory overcommitment QoS and CPU overcommitment QoS are supported. Host and
guest NUMA scheduling are also supported.

5.2 DRS

Application Scenarios
 VM loads continuously changing with sudden fluctuations, but you want to obtain optimal
performance.
 You need to dynamically schedule VMs to better balance each host’s resource usage, to fully use
computing capability of each host and improve each VM’s service system running efficiency.

Function Descriptions
 Dynamic resource scheduler (DRS) automatically balances loads for VMs in a cluster based on a set
scheduling policy.

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 DRS uses an appropriate scheduling algorithm, that considers VM load changes, thereby preventing
repetitive VM migration between hosts.
 DRS has a unique scheduling baseline setting, which helps you avoid invalid VM migration.
 You can manually schedule an exception item on a VM with special requirements, or not.
 Administrators can manually or automatically schedule resources according to policy.
 DRS supports daily, weekly, or monthly configurations for scheduling policies.

5.3 DPM

Application Scenarios
 The VM loads continuously change with sudden fluctuations, but you want to save energy.
 Under normal circumstances, VMs are migrated to other hosts, and idle hosts are powered off to
reduce energy consumption, during the non-peak hours. During peak hours, the system powers on all
hosts to ensure a high VM running efficiency and optimal service experience.

Function Descriptions
 According to the Distributed Power Management (DPM) policy set by the user, the system migrates
VMs from underloaded hosts and then powers off those hosts. For overloaded hosts, the system selects
a certain number of hosts and powers them on to implement load balancing within a cluster.
 The system can power on or off one or multiple hosts.
 When deploying DPM, you need to consider preventing effects from DRS.
 DPM supports daily, weekly, or monthly configurations for scheduling policies.

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5.4 SAP HANA

Application Scenario
The Huawei SAP HANA function provides high-performance data query, allowing users to query and
analyze massive real-time service data, without modeling or aggregation of service data.

Function Description
The SAP HANA function:
 Supports HANA services.
 Reduces HANA usage costs.
 Improves the deployment efficiency.
 Supports VMs with large specifications, such as 1024 GB memory and 64 vCPUs.
 Supports outstanding I/O performances, where the time delay is 300 us, random read and write
operations can reach 1000 MB/S, and the block size is greater than or equal to 1 MB.

5.5 GPU Virtualization

Application Scenario
GPU virtualization solutions apply to GPU computing and rendering-intensive service scenarios for high-
and middle-end users. Multiple users can share one GPU while maintaining high performance results at low
costs.

Function Description
With hardware support, a physical GPU can be virtualized into multiple vGPUs. This realizes the sharing of
devices by multiple VMs and allows vGPUs to provide those VMs with accelerated 2 and 3D graphic
processing services. During GPU virtualization, each VM can directly access some hardware resources of
the physical GPU using bound vGPUs (all the vGPU devices can share the 3D graphics engine and video
encoding engine of the physical GPU, which is based on time and has an independent video RAM).

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Therefore, vGPUs can be used as passthrough physical GPUs, while also providing excellent GPU
performance.

5.6 DPI Deep Scanning

Application Scenario
Huawei provides DPI APIs, while antivirus vendors perform developments (integrating network attack
detection, network vulnerability scanning, and the firewall module) based on the APIs, and thereby
providing network protection for FusionCompute.

Function Description
You only need to deploy a secure virtual machine (SVM) on a host and set all other VMs running on that
host to guest virtual machines (GVMs). This will empower those GVMs with network invasion detection,
network vulnerability scanning, and firewall services.

6 Feature List
The following table lists the components and functions supported by different FusionSphere virtualization
suite versions.

Component Function Standard Advanced Platinum

Edition Edition Edition

FusionCompute ● ● ●
VM resource management ● ● ●
VM lifecycle management ● ● ●
VM template ● ● ●
Computing performance enhancement ● ● ●
Distributed resource scheduling ● ● ●
VM snapshot ● ● ●
VM peripherals ● ● ●
Virtual switch ● ● ●
SR-IOV ● ● ●
Network resource pool ● ● ●
IPv6 ● ● ●
Storage virtualization ● ● ●
Storage management ● ● ●
Management node reliability ● ● ●
VM HA ● ● ●
Antivirus virtualization ● ●

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Component Function Standard Advanced Platinum

Edition Edition Edition

Management security ● ● ●
Data security ● ● ●
Protocol security ● ● ●
FusionManager ● ●
VM lifecycle management ● ●
Cloud storage ● ●
Virtual volumes ● ●
Cloud monitoring ● ●
Network QoS ● ●
Load balancing ● ●
Virtual private cloud (VPC) ● ●
Multi-tenant VDC ● ●
Cloud network resource pool management ● ●
Elastic application scaling ● ●
Service automation ● ●
VM template service ● ●
Resource pool management ● ●
Self-service mode ● ●
Infrastructure management ● ●
APIs for cloud infrastructure services ●
eBackup ● ● ●
VM disk backup ● ● ●
UltraVR ●
Active/standby DR ●
Metropolitan active-active DR ●
FusionSphere SOI ●
Performance monitoring ●
Dynamic thresholds ●
Trend prediction ●
Capacity compliance ●

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Component Function Standard Advanced Platinum

Edition Edition Edition

Root cause analysis ●

Capacity report ●

Antivirus virtualization is supported by FusionCompute. However, to use this function, additional antivirus
software must be purchased. Antivirus software is sold in resale mode and includes Trend Micro and Rising.

7 Technical Specifications
The table lists main technical specifications of FusionSphere suite.

Management Capacity Number

Maximum number of hosts supported by a VRM node 1024

Number of supported cascading VRM nodes 16
Maximum number of host clusters supported by a VRM node 32
Maximum number of VMs supported by a VRM node 10,000 running VMs or 30,000
registered VMs
Maximum number of virtual switches supported by a VRM 128
node
Maximum number of hosts supported by a logical cluster 128 (LUN)/64 (virtual)
Maximum number of VMs supported by a cluster 8000/3000 (with DRS enabled)
Maximum number of physical machines 4096
Maximum number of VMs 80,000
Physical Server Specification
Maximum number of logical CPU cores supported by a host 480
Maximum memory size supported by a physical server 12 TB
Maximum number of VMs supported by a host 1024
Maximum number of logical unit numbers (LUNs) supported 512
by a host
Maximum number of volumes supported by a host 2048
Maximum number of non-uniform memory access (NUMA) 16
nodes supported by a host
Maximum number of VMs that can be concurrently live 8
migrated from a host
VM Specification
Maximum number of vCPUs supported by a VM 128

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Maximum number of NICs supported by a VM 12

Maximum number of virtual disks supported by a VM 60
Maximum memory size supported by a VM 4 TB
Maximum virtual disk size supported by a VM 64 TB
Maximum number of snapshots supported by a VM 32

Storage Capacity Number

Maximum storage capacity supported by VRM 120,000
Maximum number of hard disks supported by distributed 49,152
storage
Maximum number of resource pools supported by distributed 128
storage
Maximum number of hosts supported by distributed storage 4096
Maximum number of snapshots supported by a system 200,000

Network Capacity Number

Maximum number of distributed virtual switches (DVSs) 128
supported by a system
Maximum number of hosts supported by a DVS 1280
Maximum number of port groups supported by a DVS 80,000