Huawei Active-active Data Center Special HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Bantian, Longgang District Shenzhen518129, P. R. China Tel:+86-755-28780808 Forward Since 2002, Huawei started to probe into the storage field. Based on the long-term technical expertise input Storage for Future, Protection for and collaboration with Symantec, Huawei markets its storage products Global Information Systems on a large scale and proactively inter- acts with its customers after 2008. Huawei's backup and DR solutions are as diversified and competitive as Zha wei On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, Huawei Storage issues its Disaster Recov- those of IT giants. Moreover, Huawei ery Special, which looks back Huawei Storage's decade-long contribution to IT product line provides customized solutions for en- innovating technologies and solutions for data protection and service continuity. terprises from various industries architecture Minister Also, the special reflects on Huawei's shortcomings in data protection solutions based on their budgets, best meeting and customers' unmet expectations in current times when data is becoming the the enterprises' requirements on foundation for the enterprise operation and society progress. recovery time objective (RTO), recov- ery point objective (RPO), and service As everyone knows, the IT industry has undergone three reforms in technical continuity. architecture, which is transformed from dumb terminal-centralized computing in the mainframe era to client/server and browser/server architecture in the mini- Huawei provides host-, network-, and computer (PC server) era and to mobile terminal/pad-cloud architecture in storage array-based data replication today's cloud computing era. Each reform drives productivity enormously and solutions, applicable to databases ap- increases industry scales by dozens of times. What lying behind the reforms are plications, middleware, office soft- the enterprises' and societies' further understanding of data value and the impor- ware, and even the DR of the virtual tance of IT infrastructures in securing service continuity. machine (VM) environment. Huawei also provides DR solutions for both The development of data protection and IT service continuity solutions is divided customers' self-built data centers into three phases with the 9/11 event and the emergence of cloud computing as (DCs) and cloud-based DCs. watersheds. Before 9/11, the focus of data protection was data backup. Backup data was mainly used for recovering the data lost by misoperations or unex- However, Huawei's solutions have pected exceptions. During the period between 9/11 and the year 2008, enter- shortcomings. For example, Huawei prises became aware of the devastating consequences of data loss caused by does not have economic solutions to disasters. The IT infrastructure shifted its focus to disaster recovery (DR). Later, protect data in an ultra-large-scale en- after the issue of the International Standard SHARE 78, IT suppliers launched vironment, nor provides optimal solu- diversified technologies and solutions for data protection and enterprise level DR tions for specific application sce- solutions, marking that the data protection entered the automation era. After narios. In this regard, Huawei will 2008, with the upsurge of cloud computing and big data, enterprises and the keep its technical accumulation in a entire society at large realized the value of data. The data protection entered a long run. new era under the background of cloud computing. 01 02 Contents Trends and Standards Methods and Technologies Typical Solutions Success Stories 05 Industry Trend Prediction 11 Common DR Technologies 33 High-Availability(HA) Solution 50 DR Solution for Thailand Ministry of Education 09 Seven Tiers of DR 15 Common Backup Technologies 35 Disaster Recovery Data Center Solution 51 Billing System DR Solution for Yemen Mobile (Active-Passive Mode) 19 Methods of Constructing a Disaster 52 Venezuela CANTV Project Recovery System 39 Disaster Recovery Data Center Solution (Geo-Redundant Mode) 53 Virtual DR System for Shanghai University 23 DR System Service Recovery and Data Consistency Protection 42 Cloud DR Solution 54 Dongguan Chang'an Hospital Active-Active Data Center 25 DR System Management 45 Centralized Backup Solution 55 South Africa Telkom Expansion Project 29 DR in Virtualization Environments 56 Hangzhou Steam Turbine UltraVR DR System 31 Backup Technologies for Virtualization Environments 57 3DC DR Project of China National Audit Office 58 Cloud DR Solution for Shandong Computing Center 59 Integrated Backup and Archiving Solution for WISDRI 60 Centralized Backup Solution for CGB 61 Centralized Backup Solution for FNDE National Education Fund Brazil 62 v v Centralized Backup Solution for Switzerland CSS Insurance 63 Centralized Backup Solution for Royal KPN Netherlands Distributed Cloud Data Center Industry Trend Prediction Industry Trend Prediction Industry development • SMB adoption of virtualization sectors. It is estimated that over half of the trend will outpace that of the enterprise surveyed will adopt virtualization. in 2012 • Confidence is on the rise Server virtualization is making huge inroads • Virtual data at greater risk than into many businesses around the world. physical data According to Acronis Global Disaster Server virtualization is adopted by multiple Recovery Index: 2012, like-for-like global Despite virtualization gaining traction in the industries such as finance, manufacturing, confidence has risen 14% over the past 12 SMB space, most companies are falling Internet, government, and education. In months. The most noticeable increase in short when it comes to protecting data 2012, the number of server virtualization confidence is about having enough of the accumulated on their VMs. projects ranks the top among all key right resources (tools and environment) and • A third (33%), the same as 12 months protects, and server virtualization will be the right technologies for the job to cope ago, admitted that they do not back up adopted by most of the key projects in with a disaster. VMs as often as their physical machines. 2013. Almost a third (32%) of the businesses are • Almost half (49%) back up their VMs Huawei predicts that virtualization will be still concerned that their backup and DR weekly or monthly. the most widely applied in the financial operations will fail in the wake of a series industry. Facing the economic recession, • Briefly a third (37%) back up their VMs incident, and a similar number (34%) feel many industries cut their IT investment, every day. The worst culprits are in they would suffer substantial downtime as a whereas, the IT investment in the financial Britain (60%), France (58%), Italy (56%), result. industry keeps growing stably. In recent and Brazil (57%), where over half of the There is growing room for improvement in years, the financial industry devotes itself organizations questioned admitted to not several areas: to virtualizing x86-based mainframes, backing up their VMs as frequently as which are the core systems of banks and their physical ones. • Backup procedures and policies securities firms. The industry's efforts in appear much less well documented Worryingly, although the surveyed admitted server virtualization help to control the and confidence in this area during 2011 that the monetary value of data hosted increase of server quantity, ease the dropped by 44%. on virtual servers is as important as that pressure of insufficient equipment room hosted on their physical machines, they do • Similarly, businesses are 16% less space, and accelerate the application not attach sufficient importance to backing confident about having enough controls deployment and management. up data on the VMs. A third of the surveyed and procedures in place. Industry Trend Prediction Virtualization is also widely adopted in do not back up VMs as frequently as their • Businesses haven't addressed a shortfall medical, government, and education physical machines. Few businesses today can survive major enough for mass application, enterprises As the vendor having the most rapid in qualified staff in 2010. 2010 saw an data loss without a comprehensive backup require a unified platform that integrates growth rate in the global storage market, 8% decrease in confidence that staff are and DR strategy in place. Yet most various other platforms, physical clients, Huawei recently releases its updated sufficiently qualified to handle a disaster businesses face a common challenge — and virtual clients. solutions for data protection and service or major outage, potentially due to tough their business data is growing at an insane continuity, aiming at providing a brand-new economic times. A typical small- and medium-sized pace while their IT budgets are, in real data protection mechanism for enterprise business (SMB) today manages more than • Almost half (47%) now feel that business terms, flat-lining. users to handle complex problems in 100 servers, desktops, and laptops and executives are not supportive of their data protection. Huawei provides support According to the Acronis Global Disaster produces almost 40 TB of fresh data every backup and DR operations. and reference for enterprise users' DR Recovery Index: 2012, global enterprises' year. Such data on one hand brings huge system planning based on the DR industry • Budgets stayed flat year on year with no confidence in recovering data from business opportunities and supports future development and technical development.