Huawei Cloud Fabric

Cloud Fabric is the service solution for DPC.

Huawei Cloud Fabric has properties:

• Flexibility: high scalability of cloud services and channels for transfer of Big Data.
• Simplification of processes: the cloud solution for Huawei network by 10 times accelerates activation of cloud services.
• Openness: simplification of cloud computing due to seamless connection to the main cloud platforms.

Helps to create the solution Huawei Cloud Fabric of generation flexible, convenient in management, open network for stable development of cloud services.

Representation of Huawei Cloud Fabric, (2016)

In process of growth of popularity of cloud services and the SDN applications data centers evolve towards Big Data, services and a variety of systems.

But there are several problems:

• application of Big Data is connected with intensive increase in network traffic
• IT systems should react to faster and frequent updates of services quickly
• for cloud ecosystems more open networks are necessary

Helps to create a cloud solution flexible, simple, open networks of data centers with support of stable development of cloud services.

Transmission system, routings, security and network management - the complete solution of network of data center. It consists of several auxiliary solutions:

• Connections in data center (the solution of cloud communication)
• Connections between centers data with recovery after failures
• Optimization of protection of data center and its applications
• Network management of data center

Development History

2018: Huawei Intent-Driven Networking

The Huawei company announced on June 18, 2018 complex updating of the solution CloudFabric which is intended to simplify process of implementation of IDN technologies (Intent-Driven Network) in data processing centers. Besides, the company submitted the 400-gigabit platform for a switching core with the best utilization properties to the industries.

The solution Huawei Intent-Driven Networking for CloudFabric allows the enterprises to identify need of application of automatic network configurations, the predictive analysis and intellectual operation. Besides, the solution provides physical capacity of ultrabroadband network interaction with a low delay and zero loss of packets of information.

Intent-Driven Networking for CloudFabric founded on the principles of intellectuality, simplicity, ultrabroadbandness, openness and security is optimized thanks to the Agile Controller controller. This solution is also used by the network analyzer of DPC FabricInsight for implementation of the predictive analysis and automatic detection of deviations. Afterwards it will become a basis for creation of an automatic, self-regulating system of a closed loop which for the user will become even more convenient.

List of functions and key Intent-Driven Networking components:

• IDN automation
  • Agile Controller allows to complete automatically planning of network taking into account the service purposes and intentions of the user that increases service quality. One cluster can manage 3 thousand nodes at the access level and can be scaled up to 100 thousand servers. Besides, the controller cluster working in the active and standby mode in the ratio 1:1 raises system availability and guarantees lack of interruptions in service at automatic switching between active and reserve nodes. Agile Controller can interact with numerous cloud platforms for flexible planning and resource allocation.

• Predictive analysis and identification of deviations
  • The FabricInsight analyzer sets model of network behavior on the basis of the analysis of Big Data and machine learning technology, continuously controls the status of network for support of diagnostic maintenance and identification of network deviations in read seconds and also automatically connects network deviations (e.g. overloads) with the struck services that helps clients to reveal and correct errors quickly.

• The 400-gigabit platform for a switching core with the best utilization properties in the industry
  • The CE12800 switch supports 36 400-gigabit network interface cards and 400-gigabit end-to-end interaction. It allows to avoid the shortages of capacity, reduces traffic cost by 20% and provides a possibility of further development for the next 10 years, claim in Huawei.

The solution Huawei Intent-Driven Networking for CloudFabric which cornerstone the concept of IDN is opens access to the advanced solutions and products for service providers, large corporations and medium business, allowing to reveal business intentions and the purposes of clients and to achieve no-touch and intellectual deployment and network functioning. According to Huawei, thanks to it data processing centers will become the centers of business potential.

2017: CloudFabric for creation of DPCs with supersimplified by design

On September 20, 2017 the Huawei company presented the solution CloudFabric created on the basis of the concept of modular networks, optimized for specific scenarios. CloudFabric helps to create data processing centers with the supersimplified design, deployment, maintenance and operation.

As explained in the company, cloud computing became the key engine of digital transformation, as a result from data centers it is required that they were focused on specific scenarios. However it is interfered by low operational efficiency of traditional universal solutions. Huawei CloudFabric it is designed to help the enterprises to create quickly supersimplified DPCs cloud networks.

Models of factories

Huawei CloudFabric provides three the scenario - the focused models of factories:

• High Availability Fabric is focused on DPC networks with increased requirements on reliability and security and also an intelligent system of maintenance and operation that ensures round-the-clock operation of critical important services in the financial sector and so forth.
• Hyperscale Fabric is focused on hyper scaled and the DPCs non-blocking networks with a set of clouds of automated management.
• HPC Fabric is focused on DPC where high-performance computing is necessary, and can be used in such sectors as satellite mapping, determination of energy (energy detection) and medicobiological sciences as meets the requirements of zero loss of packets of information and low value of a delay in Ethernet-factories.

While digital transformation of the enterprises accelerates, transfer of services in a cloud is not limited to the Internet industry — it covers financial, industrial, power sectors. Respectively, scenarios of use of the DPCs cloud networks become more and more various. The enterprises in each industry try to use more effectively cloud computing for achievement of progress in the industry and increase in operational efficiency — Yu Li, the CEO of Huawei Data Center Network Domain says. — Huawei CloudFabric defines the scenario - the focused models of factories, concentrates on networks and applications, but not network elements, and helps the enterprises to create quickly networks based on a cloud taking into account specific service scenarios and future development, thereby accelerating digital transformation.

According to Huawei, the solution CloudFabric is capable to simplify a network architecture and to reduce the design period from several months to several days. Besides, thanks to open SDN architecture and automatic delivery of network settings and rules of security, this solution reduces time of providing service from several weeks to several minutes, thereby providing the supersimplified deployment.

At last, thanks to the intellectual network analysis and the FabricInsight platform the product CloudFabric optimizes decision making and reduces the term of detection of failures from several hours to several minutes.

2016: Huawei Cloud Fabric 5.0

On September 5, 2016 the Huawei company announced release of the version of Cloud Fabric 5.0 for cloud services on the Huawei Fabric Insight Refined Operations and Maintenance platform (O&M).