This slides show how ZStack Cloud will enable users to provides solutions in many scenario, such as:
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Storage as a Service
- Desktop as a Service
- Machine Learning as a service
- Load balancer as a service
- Baremetal as a service
- Hybrid Bare Metal
- Security as a service
- Platform as a service
- Disaster Recovery as a service
- Virtual Customer Premises Equipment Solutions
- Multi-access Edge Computing Solutions
- Alive-Alive Datacenter Solution
- Hybrid Cloud Solution
- Multi-cloud Management Solution
- Local Public and Private Cloud Solution
This slides also provides many use case of ZStack Cloud in some industries.
3. 01 Infrastructure as a Service
Solution:
• Resource pooling: computing, network, storage;
• Unified management: multi-region, multi-cloud;
• Refined operation: multi-tenant, tickets and billing,
auto OPS;
• Support agent-free migration;
• Self-service: service catalog, self-service delivery.
IaaS solutions
Multi-regional
management
Multi-cloud
management
Multi-tenant
management
Service catalog OPS and billing
Virtualization Service
Resource pooling High availability VM HA Snapshot/clone … …
Hardware
server Network switch Storage System
ESXI KVM AlicCoud ECS
Virtualization Hypervisor
Advantages:
Unified O&M of physical resources, virtualized
resources and platforms;
Open API to automate O&M;
Facility reuse, non-hardware binding.
Migration Migration
4. 01 Storage as a Service
Block Storage Object Storage File Storage
Local Stor
NFS
Shared Mount
Point
Ceph
Aliyun NAS
Aliyun EBS
ZStack Primary Storage
Shared Block / LUN
IP SAN
FC
SAN
VM VM VM VM
passthrough
SMBA FILE DRIVE DATABASE
Solution:
• Multiple storage support;
• Multiple storage mounts supported in a single cluster;
• LUN pass-through to VM support;
• Supports up to 1PB virtual disks.
Advantages:
More storage options;
Better performance;
Greater storage capacity.
ZStack Ceph
Volume
Share
volume
5. Desktop as a Service
Solution:
• Support for multiple main-stream transmission protocols;
• TLS encryption support;
• HD graphics card driver support
• Support for traffic optimization;
• Separate transmission network.
Advantages:
Native protocols for better compatibility;
Encryption support for greater security;
More consistent image quality.
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Infrastructure
X86 X86 ARM ARM
vGPU
GPU GPU
ZStack Cloud
Compute
resource
pool
GPU
resource
pool
VM VM VM VM
ZStack VDI
Laptop Desktop Phone Tablet X86 client ARM client
RDP SPICE TLS SPICE
6. 01 Machine Learning as a Service
VM
Physical GPU Physical GPU vGPU
VM VM VM
MLaaS
Solution:
• Support for physical graphics card passthrough;
• Support for virtual graphics card mounts;
• Support for automatic graphics card discovery;
• Support for mounting multiple graphics card.
Advantages:
Unified management of graphics cards;
Supports most NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards;
Better device compatibility.
7. 01 Load Balance as a Service
VM VM
VPC Network
Load Balance Service
ZWatch
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M
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Y
C
P
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M
E
M
O
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VM VM VM VM
Auto Scale Group
VIP
Solution:
• Support for automatic resilience of virtual machine;
• Customized flexibility conditions;
• Automatic load balancing, health status check;
• Virtual machine health status check.
Advantages:
Flexible scaling strategy;
Highly automated.
8. 01 Bare Metal as a Service
Solution:
• Full lifecycle management of bare metal;
• Supports storage, networking, mirroring and billing services for
bare metal;
• Unified management support for X86 and ARM;
• Intelligent Wizard.
Advantages:
Better compatibility, no special hardware required;
Self-delivery and billing of bare metal equipment;
Bare metal device access to cloud resources;
User-friendly operation.
GPU PCI Card
CPU CPU
x86
X86
Bare-metal-A
GPU PCI Card
CPU CPU
ARM
ARM
Bare-metal-B
SAN
NAS
SDS
Storage Pool
E-BM E-BM E-BM E-BM
ZStack BM Gateway
vRouter
L3 Net
L2 Net
Network
BM Volume BM Template Snapshot VPC FW VPC LB
Self-service
& Billing
9. AliCloud ECS Bare Metal Server
IB HCA
AliCloud ECS Bare Metal Server
IB HCA
MOC ZStack Agent
ZStack in BM
BM in ZStack
ZStack MN
MOC
ZStack Agent
ZStack Compute Node (Bare Metal instance)
VM OS VM OS
Any OS (Bare Metal instance)
ZStack Agent
APP APP
APP APP
Hybrid Bare Metal
Solution:
• Virtualizing Alibaba Bare Metal with ZStack;
• Manage AliCloud bare metal directly with ZStack.
Advantages:
Deploy a private cloud without hardware infrastructure;
ZStack & AliCloud native technology integration;
Flexible switching between the two forms.
10. 01 Security as a Service
Cyber security resource services
Zero-Trust User authorization
Cyber management
User authorization Service monitor
SIEM Backup/DR
Firewall WAF
Cyber Resource
Anti-Virus IDS/IPS
Anti-Spam mail … …
ZStack Cloud Cloud resources
User VM
TenantA
User VM
User VM
User VM
TenantB
User VM
User VM
... ...
ZStack Cloud cloud platform
Resource
management
Monitoring/Alarm
Tenant
management
Performance
analysis
Metering and
billing
Disaster recovery
service
Migration service Bare metal
Solution:
• Provides compute, storage, and network
virtualization capabilities to deploy virtual
security appliances.
Advantages:
Unified management of cloud platform and cyber
resources;
Separated user VMs cyber resources;
Clear boundaries and full HA support.
11. 01 Platform as a Service
VM
Volume
VM
Template
Snapshot
DB WEB MQ API AD AUTH …
LOG
ZStack Edge
MON
VM
POD
VM
POD
VM
POD
HOST
POD
HOST
MON
ECS
POD
ECS
Virtualization Bare Metal Public Cloud
Tunnel
Network ZStack
Cloud
Solution:
• Provides isolation, storage persistence
capabilities missing from PaaS platforms;
• Unified management of resources deployed on
virtual machines, physical machines and public
cloud instances.
Advantages:
Support unified operation and maintenance
management of multiple resources;
Provide seamless network access to all platforms;
Flexible deployment options and solutions.
13. 01 Virtual Customer Premises Equipment Solution
Solution:
• Native network services;
• Supporting high-performance forwarding scenarios with SR-IOV;
• Provides network standard protocols for layers 2 to 7;
• Multicast support;
• IPv4 to IPv6 solution.
Advantages:
Supports a wide range of high-performance network forwarding
scenarios;
North-south security policy;
User-friendly network service features.
VPN
SR-IOV/Net Acceleration
Firewall
NAT OSPF
VPC
Router
Elastic IP
NIC NIC
Router
Table
Netflow
Port
Forward
SDN-Controller VM VM VM
WAN A WAN B LAN A
VLAN / VXLAN
Linux Bridge / OVS
User
Multicast
Passthrough
IPv4/IPv6
15. 01 Alive-Alive Datacenter Solution
SDS / SAN/ AliEBS
ZStack Cloud
Storage area
Cluster A
Data center A
Mgmt A
Cluster A
VM
VM
Cluster B
VM
VM
ZStack Cloud
Storage area
Cluster B
Data centerB
Cluster C
VM VM
VM VM
Cluster D
VM VM
VM VM
Mgmt B
Copy1 Copy2 Copy3 Copy4
Sync Sync
MON
A
MON
B
Dedicated
Circuit
VM
VM
VM
VM
Site A Site B
Solution:
• Support for VM HA from one data
center to another;
• Supports SAN, SDS and public cloud
storage mounting solutions.
Advantages:
Native cross-data center HA functionality;
More flexible storage options;
Non-hardware binding
16. 01 Hybrid Cloud Solution
Public Cloud Service
ECS VPC DB OSS NAS
ZStack Unified Management
Other
Public Cloud
ZStack
Virtualization
Alicloud
VPN/
Dedicated
circuit
VPN/
Dedicated
circuit
LB AntiDDoS WAF CDN … …
Solution:
• Native Hybrid Cloud Solution with AliCloud;
• Unified management of local VM and AliCloud ECS;
• Provide VPN and dedicated circuit access to hybrid
cloud solutions with other public clouds
Advantages:
Native hybrid cloud solutions;
Unified cloud management;
Flexible network access.
17. Multi-cloud Management Solution
VDC A
Multi-Cloud
Admin
VDC B VDC C
Project A Project B Project C Project D Project E Project F
Tenant A
Resource
Pool
Unified Resources Pool
APP Automation
VM Ticket Billing
Tenant B
Resource
Pool Tenant C
Resource
Pool
DC A ZStack A ZStack B VMware A DC B ZStack C VMware B AliCloud x Cloud
Pub
Cloud
Service
Solution:
• Provides multi-cloud resource unified OPS;
• Provide unified cloud services, processes, billing;
• Unified authentication access and support for third-
party authentication;
• Support for multiple cloud platforms automation
Advantages:
Unified multi-cloud resources;
Flexible organizational management;
Open APIs, custom extensions, automation.
20. 02 IDC – A Managed Service Provider
• Cloud strategy, one cloud cross multiple locations
• Leverage private cloud and public cloud
• Protection of investment, reuse old hardware, take over
VMware with unified portal
• V2V
• VMs backup
• All resources of Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney are managed by ZStack
• ZStack hybrid cloud connects private cloud and alibaba public cloud
• ZStack takes over existing VMware setup
• ZStack provides build-in V2V of VMware
• ZStack provides build-in VMs backup function, can backup locally, remotely, even to public cloud
• One cloud, unified portal, simplified management,
increased efficiency
• All opened API, easy integration
• A save of investment
• Hybrid architecture provides more possibility for
business innovation
Challenge
Customer Value
Solution
MN HA
Cluster
Melbourne Adelaide
Host1 HostN
Host2
…
Cluster
Host1 HostN
Host2 …
MN
Standby
Cluster
Sydney
Host1 HostN
Host2
…
Tenant 1
Tenant 1
Tenant N
…
Tenant 3
Tenant 2 Tenant 4
Cluster
Brisbane
Host1 HostN
Host2
…
Tenant 1 Tenant 3
21. 02 Education – A Top International Universities
• Reduce OPS complexity through unified management
• Reduces fault response time by the A-A architecture and ZStack
HA features
• Improves service experience through the cloud resource self-
service method
• Improve resource utilization
Stor
Host Host
Bare
Metal
Campus A Campus B
Web
Web
Web
DB
DB
File
File
File
DB
Ceph Storage Pool
• A large number of physical machines cannot go to the cloud
• The database server needs to be served in bare metal form
• Difficulties in managing operations and maintenance
• Service has single point of failure between two campus
• Managing physical machines and databases with Bare Metal Services
• Unified management of virtual machines and bare metal with ZStack
• Self-service with ZStack
• Adopts an active-active architecture
Stor
Host Host
Bare
Metal
Web
Web
Web
DB
DB
File
File
File
DB
Challenge
Customer Value
Solution
22. 02
Challenge
• Massive user access, order generation and data processing
• Requiring fast resource scheduling during peak periods
• The scale of physical resources being huge. Creating VMs on
hosts or with manual commands and then delivering them to
dev, test and production environments
Customer Value
• Two management nodes manage four zones
simultaneously. The scale of hosts reaches
2000+
• Completely open APIs, easy integration or
connection with other 3rd party platforms.
• Quick deployment and acceleration of model
selection for cloud platform.
• Platform stable and strong. Relieving the
maintenance team of the burden of complex
and tedious routines
Solution
• User access put onto public cloud
• Data processing put onto ZStack private cloud and integrated with CI/CD
• Local storage, with HA guarantee for application layer
MN
SH-Zone2
Cluster 2
SH-Zone2
Cluster 1
SH-
Zone 2 BJ-Zone2
Cluster 2
BJ-Zone2
Cluster 1
BJ-
Zone 2
SH-Zone1
Cluster N
SH-Zone1
Cluster 1
SH-
Zone1 BJ-Zone1
Cluster N
BJ-Zone1
Cluster 1
BJ-Zone 1
MN
Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1
Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1 Host1
Internet
Internet – Food Ordering & Delivery App
24. 02
Challenge
• As the business expands, IT operations struggle to expand
• Use of multiple public cloud services, operation, billing
difficulties
• Increased O&M workload, complex architecture and
increased risk
Customer Value
• Simplify the technical architecture and reduce
the difficulty of O&M
• Unified operating platform to simplify
operational processes
• Quick deployment and acceleration of model
selection for cloud platform.
• Unified billing and monitoring to improve
resource utilization
Solution
• Deploy CMP to unify the management of multiple public clouds and ZStack Cloud
• Unified management of multiple platform resources and unified monitoring and maintenance
• Cross-departmental and cross-cloud platform with uniform billing of resource costs
Retail – A Multi-regional B2C Retailer
ZStack Cloud
ZStack
CMP
Public Cloud A Public Cloud B
Monitor Billing
O&M AUTH
Unified
Resource
Pool
Region A
Branche A Branche C
Region C
Branche F Branche G
Region B
Branche D Branche E
26. Challenge
• Short-cycle projects requiring private cloud services
• Requires use of some public cloud features
• Requires network support for multicast streaming services
Customer Value
• Rapid deployment, hardware-free
• Enabling rapid service cloudification
• Combines the features of private and public clouds for
enhanced security
Solution
• Using AliCloud ECS Bare Metal Server as a ZStack computing resource
• Using AliCloud EBS as a ZStack storage resource
• Using AliCloud security products to provide security
• Using ZStack VPC routers to provide multicast networks
ECS Bare Metal Server
AliCloud
ECS
ECS Bare Metal Server ECS Bare Metal Server
ZStack Cloud
EBS Anti DDoS …
02 Transnational Group – A Sports Organization