About UIS basic services

UIS HCI products

UIS hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) products include the UIS-Cell 3000 G3 series, UIS 4500 G3 series, UIS 5000 G3 series, UIS 5300 G3 series, UIS-Cell 6000 G3 series, and UIS 9000 series. These products are available to customers on a configure to order (CTO) basis. The industry-leading UIS hyper-converged software preinstalled on the product integrates computing, storage, network, security, maintenance and monitoring, and cloud services. The product is ready for use once you get it and takes only 30 minutes for you to establish a cloud computing environment. The product implements a streamlined hardware infrastructure platform with only servers and switches, as well as a unified, software-defined data center resource pool. Featuring unified virtualized resource monitoring and management, fast and flexible service deployment, and streamlined Web-based management, UIS HCI products effectively reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and become the best infrastructure platform for cloud computing.

UIS hyper-converged basic services

UIS hyper-converged basic services are available upon your registration by using the UIS Manager license, UIS-CAS license, and UIS-ONEStor (block storage enterprise edition) license. Table-1 shows the basic services.

Table-1 UIS hyper-converged basic services

Category

Services

Compute virtualization

  • VM lifecycle management

  • Hot-add of CPUs, memory, disk capacity, disks, and NICs

  • Compute resource priority, reservation, and limit

  • vCPU-to physical CPU binding, CPU isolation, HugePages, NUMA, and interrupt affinity

  • VM online migration, VM storage online migration, VM cold migration, and VM migration history

  • VM templates, Batch VM deployment, snapshots, and clones

  • Scheduled startup and shutdown

  • VM affinity and anti-affinity.

  • VM view

  • USB redirection

  • DRS

  • GPU virtualization

Network virtualization

  • VDS

  • Port profiles

  • Network priority and QoS

  • VLAN

  • ACL

  • IP/MAC binding

  • NetFlow

  • Port mirroring

  • Link aggregation

  • NIC binding

  • DHCP server

  • Passthrough NICs

Storage virtualization

  • All-flash support

  • SSD caches

  • Erasure coding

  • Replication

  • Automatic data recovery

  • Intelligent load balancing

  • Thin provisioning

VM security

  • VM antivirus

  • VM backup and disk backup

  • VM recycle bin

  • Custom roles and permissions

  • Service access security management

  • User authentication and user password complexity requirement

  • VM migration encryption

  • VM template integrity check and source tracking

  • Residual data erasure

  • Security audit

High reliability and high availability

  • Management platform fast recovery

  • Stateful failover of management platforms

  • Host and VM HA

  • Operating system HA

  • Application HA

  • VM boot priority

  • Host maintenance

  • DRS

Hyper-converged management, operation, and maintenance capabilities

  • One Key operations for system health check

  • Physical host management

  • Dashboard page and dashboard customization

  • High availability monitoring center

  • Realtime alarms

  • Monitor reports

  • Resource usage statistics

  • Virtualized topology and you-get-what-you-draw service topology

  • Dashboard display

 

Storage virtualization services might vary by UIS-ONEStor license version. In this document, the storage virtualization services are provided upon registration using the UIS-ONEStor enterprise version license.