Sustainable Solution for Key Healthcare Services

    09-11-2022

I. Background

With the expansion of the scale of hospitals and the gradual improvement of medical informatization, hospitals rely more on information systems. Hospitals are increasingly demanding stability and continuity of services for these systems. They require that the systems of key services can be paused for a short time but cannot be interrupted. Industry standards including hospital information interconnection assessment, electronic medical record rating, and the requirements of level-3 classified protection of cybersecurity have specified the requirements for disaster recovery to ensure the continuous operation of hospital systems.

II. User needs

Healthcare service requirements

The society has higher requirements for the service capabilities of medical institutions and requests for continuous and superior services.

Industry construction requirements

The information interconnection assessment, electronic medical record rating, the requirements of level-3 classified protection of cybersecurity, and National Criteria and Standards of Hospital Informatization Construction have set requirements for continuous operation of services and data security.

O&M requirements

Service systems allow continuous operation and automatic fault switching, reducing the O&M pressure.

III. Overview of solution

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H3C can provide a sustainable solution covering host, storage, and network.

Host layer—The hosts in a dual data center architecture are deployed in a cluster mode, and each data center has the same service system, and services are load-balanced through load balance devices.

Storage layer—The storage in a dual data center architecture implements active-active clustering through PP technology to solve availability problems. Backup devices are deployed to solve reliability problems.

Network layer—Large layer-2 connectivity is made available via the EVI technology and service access is distributed to different data centers through global load balancing devices.

IV. Highlights of solution

 

 

 

V. Best practices

First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

It is the largest affiliated hospital with the strongest comprehensive strength among the hospitals affiliated to key national universities. It has also been ranked among China’s best hospitals in terms of size and comprehensive strength. Many service systems of the hospital are running on virtual platforms. Therefore, the data storage device should provide adequate performance and stability.

After considering customers’ needs, H3C promoted the CF8840 quad-controller all-flash array (AFA). The AFA adopts an optimized all-flash memory architecture and enables optimization of flash data access, greatly improving storage performance. Besides, it is equipped with four controllers with six-nines reliability, ensuring stable operation of the service system.

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