Benefits

Seamless integration with UIS Manager Standard Edition

UIS Cloud integrates the virtualization management capabilities of UIS Manager to provide unified cloud services. It can integrate multiple UIS Manager deployments and abstract their virtualized resources into uniform cloud resources for the ease of management and improved efficiency of operations.

Figure-1 Seamless integration of Cloud for UIS with UIS Manager Standard Edition

 

Support for ROBO deployment

The advent of cloud computing has driven explosive growth of new applications, new services, and new-generation network technologies. To address the challenges arising from these changes, IT infrastructure is evolving towards a two-tier architecture that contains one data center site (also called a center site) and multiple edge sites. The center site deploys scalable cloud architecture for compute-intensive and I/O-intensive applications. The edge sites are geographically dispersed remote office and branch office (ROBO) sites that deploy small-scale architecture for low latency and high bandwidth access.

UIS Cloud supports multisite management. You can deploy UIS Cloud at the center site and deploy UIS Manager at the edge sites in scenarios such as edge computing and ROBO.

Figure-2 Multisite management scenario

 

UIS Cloud at the center site provides a centralized point of management for the administrator to configure, operate, manage, and monitor all edge (or ROBO) sites. UIS Manager at each site connects site IT infrastructure to UIS Cloud. Edge site operators only need to perform basic, easy tasks such as power-on, power-off, and drive replacement. Because these tasks do not require a high level of expertise or skills, the edge sites do not need dedicated professional IT administrators.

The edge sites connect to the edge site through leased lines or VPNs such as MPLS VPN, IPsec VPN, and L2TP VPNs.

Unified management of heterogeneous resources

Most enterprises have virtualization platforms from different vendors in their data centers.

UIS Cloud enables unified management of heterogeneous resource pools created by different virtualization platforms. It shields the differences between heterogeneous resource pools to present a uniform management view and provide a uniform user experience. This enables enterprises to protect their investments in virtualization platforms.

Figure-3 Unified management of resources from heterogeneous virtualization platforms

 

UIS Cloud supports management of resources in VMware vSphere, H3C CAS, and UIS Manager. It incorporates resource pools from different virtualization platforms and abstracts them into resource availability zones (AZs) for uniform resource management.

The administrator can combine compute, storage, and network resources in resource AZs to provide uniform cloud services to tenants (for example, departments) or tenant users. A resource approval workflow system is available for users to request resources and for administrators to review requests and assign resources.

Ultra-lightweight and low cost

UIS Cloud is intended to help small- and mid-sized enterprises to build an affordable, small-scale cloud to deliver full IaaS services. It provides the following benefits:

• Requires as few as three physical servers for cluster deployment and does not require dedicated management servers.

• Improves resource use efficiency because it is deployed as VMs.

• Enables automated configuration and one-click cloud deployment.

• Supports UIS-SEC and bare metal service plug-ins for service extensibility.

Figure-4 Hyper-converged cloud deployment for small- and mid-sized enterprises

 

High availability

UIS Cloud uses microservice architecture. All its components are containerized for deployment. Backed by strong container cluster management capability of Kubernetes (K8s), the UIS Cloud system is highly available. When one node in the cluster becomes unavailable, the system automatically moves services running on it to other available nodes.