A private cloud data center addresses the challenges faced during the customer’s digital transformation. It integrates intelligent infrastructure to deliver efficient and agile application architecture, supporting the digital business of enterprises. Sangfor Data Center Solution is based on HCI, with a focus on business application systems. It ensures high reliability and security for traditional, agile, and innovative businesses while offering convenient and efficient O&M management capabilities. The architecture of Sangfor Data Center Solution is shown in the figure below.

The key benefits and strengths of the Sangfor private cloud data center solution based on HCI are as follows:

The solution establishes a comprehensive security and reliability framework covering hardware, platform, cloud infrastructure, and network boundaries. It integrates security resource pools to deliver a robust and integrated business and security environment. The cloud platform guarantees the reliability of the hardware, platform, virtualization, and disaster recovery, ensuring uninterrupted business operations.

Utilizing a distributed architecture, the solution enables the creation of resource pools with just three cloud servers. Additional resources can be easily added as required by incorporating x86 servers, facilitating seamless and hassle-free scalability. The backup and disaster recovery modules of HCI allow for rapid expansion into a multi-data center disaster recovery and backup mode (geo-redundant 3-DC) through licensing.

The simplified IT infrastructure, consisting of only switches and x86 servers, streamlines deployment and expansion processes. The solution provides a user-friendly UI with business-centric display, visual O&M, and one-click fault locating, simplifying O&M tasks. Precise O&M is implemented without the need for training. Additionally, innovative features such as one-click application deployment and What-You-Draw-Is-What-You-Get improve deployment and resource orchestration efficiency.

As the underlying IT infrastructure for business operations, HCI offers a wide range of business capabilities to support both traditional and new applications during the digital transformation. These capabilities span various domains, including industry-specific applications, database services, as well as GPU support, data lakes, big data platforms, and cloud-native capabilities catering to the needs of innovative businesses.