Recently, Huawei has invited information technology experts from a number of top three hospitals to discuss the overall planning, construction and management of data centers in top three hospitals. Kang Zhiwei, a data storage architect from Huawei, delivered a keynote speech of & ldquo;; New generation data center solution for medical DCS & rdquo, the technology and experience of Huawei DCS in digital transformation and construction of medical industry are introduced in detail.

With the continuous acceleration of medical informatization construction, traditional hospital data centers facing the following problems:

first, data center reliability requirements are constantly improving. In terms of rating policy, the requirements of hospital electronic medical records and interconnection evaluation are getting higher and higher in hospital grading, and the requirements of data center disaster recovery construction are more professional. In addition, in recent years, the threat factors faced by hospital data centers are increasing, and hospitals have become the hardest hit areas of ransomware attacks.

Second, data center resource utilization is low.. The business system of each department in the hospital is complicated, and the chimney-type information construction has become a common phenomenon. This digital construction mode lacks flexibility. With the continuous construction of applications, resources cannot be smoothly expanded horizontally, multi-resource pools cannot be shared, and the utilization rate of facilities is low.

Finally, the unified operation and maintenance capability of hospital data centers is weak.. Due to the lack of unified fault monitoring methods, the Business Coordination interface is not clear, resulting in difficult problem demarcation and low manual troubleshooting efficiency. Once the business system fails, it is very troublesome to delimit the problem between software and hardware and between upstream and downstream hardware. It usually takes 6-7 hours to locate the problem, and the positioning cycle is long.

Build a new generation data center solution for medical DCS based on the full stack ICT base

under the general trend of intelligent transformation of hospital applications, Huawei has built a new generation of DCS data center solution based on ICT hardware, which is safe, reliable, lightweight, flexible, agile, efficient, and intelligent operation and maintenance, solve the problems of traditional hospital data center construction and help hospitals accelerate digital transformation. This solution is designed for virtualization of medical data centers and lightweight cloud-based scenarios. It adopts a hierarchical decoupling and modular architecture design. By building a secure and reliable infrastructure resource pool, unified resource management is realized, effectively improve the resource utilization rate, help the hospital informatization construction, realize the unified management from traditional discrete management to & ldquo; Hardware unification & rdquo;, and support the hospital business development and digital transformation more effectively.

Compared with the previous hospital informatization construction, the new generation data center solution of medical DCS has the following advantages:

safe and reliable: in a multi-zone scenario, it has the disaster recovery capability of virtualized dual-active and storage dual-active, and the core business is not interrupted, ensuring that the VM disaster recovery site can automatically take over the business. Virtualization Technology provides dual-active capabilities to ensure that hospitals can build two data centers to carry services at the same time. When any virtual machine in the two centers encounters a single point of failure, it can automatically switch services and achieve service recovery in minutes; it can also support business load balancing and access resources nearby. In addition to disaster recovery capabilities, the DCS new-generation data center solution also has reliability capabilities that hospitals care about, such as data backup, data layer blackmail prevention, and virtualization CDP, to ensure efficient and stable development of hospital business.

Lightweight elasticity: the business functions of DCS solution can be stacked in building blocks according to requirements, supporting large and flexible expansion, integrating emerging businesses such as image, medical community, one hospital, multiple regions, big data and AI platform. The new generation data center solution of medical DCS provides management, scheduling, orchestration, and monitoring of dual-stack applications of virtual machines and containers through a unified management platform. You can use a single interface to visually manage virtual machines and container applications, reducing management complexity. At the same time, the DCS solution also supports the lightweight cloud evolution of the hospital data center, realizing the distribution of IaaS resources such as computing, storage and network through service.

Intelligent O & M: a unified management platform provides full-link fault detection and intelligent O & M capabilities from virtualization to back-end storage. The full-stack data center management connects the end-to-end Association from virtual machines to infrastructure, and implements unified management of software and hardware. It can implement alarm, resource, and, performance and other data are presented in a unified manner. The platform has intelligent O & M capabilities, which can assist in fast fault location and help hospital O & M personnel reduce the location time from 6 to 7 hours to the current minute level. At the same time, it also has the function of risk prediction, providing data support for the investment decision of hospital informatization construction.

Independent innovation: In the new generation data center solution of medical DCS, all core components are self-developed. Chips, complete machines, operating systems, virtualization software, data center management platform and big data platform are all self-developed products. Facing the needs of hospital informatization transformation, Huawei DCS virtualization platform supports X86 ARM dual stack deployment, which conforms to the pace of batch transformation of medical informatization and realizes unified platform management.