[GBASE Event] GBase — VMware + Intel Enterprise-Class Hyperconverged System Database Solution
Building an enterprise-class hyperconverged platform has become a critical step for more and more enterprises to achieve digital transformation. On July 2, 2020, VMware and Intel held a virtual forum titled "vSAN + Optane: A Powerful Combination for an Enterprise-Class Hyperconverged System," exploring with industry and technical experts how to leverage the latest hyperconverged technologies from VMware and Intel to migrate enterprise critical applications to the cloud. Zhang Shaoyong, General Manager of GBase Data Intelligence Products Division, was invited to attend the event and delivered a presentation on the "GBase on vSAN Solution."
Zhang Shaoyong noted that Business Critical Applications (BCA) under traditional storage environments face challenges such as limited horizontal/vertical scaling, high deployment costs, high O&M costs, business continuity risks, and IO performance bottlenecks in horizontal scaling. On a hyperconverged architecture, BCA benefits from predictable performance, resource efficiency, simplified management, and high availability.
Benefits of BCA on Hyperconverged Architecture
VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software. Leveraging its unique native integration with the vSphere kernel, support for numerous enterprise-critical applications, and widely recognized enterprise-class features, it reduces storage costs by 40% or more compared to traditional server and storage architectures. It stands out among many hyperconverged solutions and holds the top share of the global hyperconverged market. In 2019, GBase completed the compatibility adaptation of its major products, including GBase 8a, 8s, and 8d, with VMware vSAN, forming a commercial solution based on virtualized deployment and publishing a joint white paper.
Architecture of GBase 8a, 8s, and 8d on VMware vSAN
The GBase 8a MPP, GBase 8s, and GBase 8d databases on the vSAN solution can help data-intensive industry users enhance their data management and data analysis capabilities, while significantly improving system availability. This solution fully leverages the advantages of vSAN, delivering a highly reliable, highly scalable, and highly available database solution for industry users. Specifically, the solution offers the following features:
Integrating GBase 8a MPP, GBase 8s, and GBase 8d databases with VMware vSAN dramatically improves database management and O&M capabilities, greatly simplifying the complexity of cluster scaling, failed device replacement, high-availability mechanisms, and many other aspects. It also delivers an excellent Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Industry users can choose the proven and tested vSAN to build their GBase 8a MPP, GBase 8s, and GBase 8d database solutions.
Verification Results — GBase 8a MPP
This solution covers both software and hardware and has undergone thorough compatibility and stability verification. It helps industry users significantly reduce upfront technology selection and testing costs, enabling rapid system deployment.
Verification Results — GBase 8d, GBase 8s
For enterprises seeking to increase the flexibility of large-scale distributed database systems, this solution provides a highly detailed reference architecture. Even if a cluster includes hardware from multiple brands or requires replacing hardware vendors during future expansion, customers can still freely scale and choose from multi-vendor hardware based on this configuration architecture.
Solution Advantages
As more critical business workloads move to the cloud and flash storage technology becomes widespread, GBase will collaborate with VMware and Intel to drive innovation in delivering optimal hyperconverged platforms and database solutions for enterprise users. Together, we aim to boost critical business performance, simplify data center management, lower procurement and O&M costs, and readily address the challenges of digital transformation!