China Petroleum Pipeline Protects Business with Active-Active Data Centers

China Petroleum Pipeline Protects Business with Active-Active Data Centers

We are impressed by Huawei’s excellent performance in project planning, project organization and implementation, and project management with advanced technologies. It was wise to choose Huawei as our partner. We would like to have close cooperation with Huawei in the future.

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Introduction

Established in 1973, China Petroleum Pipeline (CPP) is an international enterprise whose business operations include site survey, design, implementation, and management for long-distance pipelines, large oil tanks, electric power, and communications.

Challenges

CPP has high requirements for IT systems. Zhang Jiandong, Chief of the Information Center, said, “Business development depends on stable and reliable IT systems. For core services, we require zero service interruption and zero data loss when disasters occur.”

CPP’s goal is a brand new IT system based on virtualization architecture, in which the production center and Disaster Recovery (DR) center are constructed in a unified manner to provide highly secure, reliable IT infrastructure services for CPP and its subsidiaries, as well as support application systems and large software.

Huawei Solution 

CPP services are deployed in two data centers. Separate construction not only wastes resources but also provides low service reliability. The key to resolve CPP’s reliability problem is to streamline and construct two active-active cloud data centers.

After investigation, Huawei customized an Active-Active Data Center solution based on virtualization architecture using two physical data centers in CPP and China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Corporation (CPPE).

• Service-oriented solution

Based on CPP’s service requirements, Huawei divided 56 service systems that require DR into three levels and provided different solutions for services at each level.
Huawei developed a DR framework for CPP to ensure zero data loss and 24/7 business continuity of core services if disasters occur. With the new architecture, storage devices on the cloud platform operate in active-active mode, a data backup system runs on the cloud platform, and a remote DR system is constructed.

• DR solution allows for flexible site selection.

To ensure high service reliability, the distance between the production center and DR center must be within 30 kilometers. With advanced storage and transmission technologies, Huawei makes site selection easy for CPP. A highly-reliable IT system with CPP and CPPE data centers as the active-active DR platform is constructed. Although located in different places, the two data centers function like one data center with minimized transmission latency.

• Joint commissioning and simplified management

To verify the stability of DR systems, Huawei implements joint commissioning with application vendors and provides the best end-to-end practice integrating storage devices, networks, optical transmission devices, applications including databases like Oracle, and virtualization platforms, such as VMware and FusionSphere. Huawei focuses on the customer-centric concept, which is reflected in its solution for CPP.

The Huawei Active-Active Data Center solution allows CPP to maintain and upgrade hardware without interrupting services. Infrastructure resources in the production center and DR center are centrally monitored and managed, including servers, network and storage devices, simplifying system management and maintenance. The mirroring function supported by the solution ensures that each write request from the service host is written into two data centers in real-time. If a data center is fails, no data will be lost, ensuring security for information assets without disruption of services.

Customer Benefits

In May 2014, the CPP Active-Active DC centers were established. Zhang Jiandong, Chief of the Information Center in CPP, praised Huawei highly, “Huawei Active-Active Data Center solution ranks first in aspects of technology, business, and service. Huawei provides a solution that meets all of our requirements. We are impressed by Huawei’s excellent performance in project planning, project organization and implementation, and project management with advanced technologies. It was wise to choose Huawei as our partner. We would like to have close cooperation with Huawei in the future.”