Recently, in the “2023 XinZhi Award – 5th Financial Data Intelligence Outstanding Solution Selection,” H3C’s SeerFabric Financial Intelligent Lossless Data Center Solution (referred to as the “Lossless Solution”) was honored as a “Top 10 Outstanding Solution Recommended by Experts.” This solution boasts high bandwidth, low latency, and zero packet loss, providing unified IP-based support for various scenarios in the financial industry, such as production operations, big data/AI computing, and storage environments, contributing to the construction of the next-generation high-performance financial data centers.
In the digital transformation of the financial sector, IT architecture is shifting from local centralized to cloud-distributed, with numerous application systems transitioning to distributed systems. While this transition offers advantages such as cost-effectiveness, scalability, and innovation, it also brings about a significant need for network connectivity between server nodes. Traditional data center networks using IB and FC technologies face challenges due to protocol differences and fragmented architectures, resulting in operational difficulties, closed-off specialized ecosystems, and high costs, rendering them inadequate to meet the demands of a cloud-oriented data center.
Recent data indicates a gradual decline in the FC and IB markets, with the trend towards cloudification driving the demand for Ethernet. The emergence of lossless Ethernet technologies, high-performance RDMA Ethernet cards, and NVMe over RoCE all contribute to the superior performance of Ethernet-based data center network solutions, making a fully-integrated Ethernet architecture a crucial evolution for data center networks.
The H3C SeerFabric Financial Intelligent Lossless Data Center Solution integrates RDMA, RoCE, iNoF, SDN, and lossless Ethernet into a single entity. This breaks through the traditional barriers of FC SAN, offering end-to-end domestic supporting products and services, along with advantages in usability, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and maintainability. This solution truly achieves the goal of replacing traditional FC SAN network connections in both local and metropolitan data centers.
Targeting the Next Generation of High-Performance Financial Data Centers
The H3C Lossless Solution features innovative low-latency and lossless technologies, which run through multiple product lines. It can handle various scenarios in the banking, securities, and insurance industries, including production operations, big data/AI computing, and storage environments. It comprehensively optimizes the computational, storage, and network management capabilities of traditional data centers, achieving a 30-fold reduction in latency, a 30% increase in computing power, and a 30% decrease in energy consumption, showcasing excellent performance in terms of performance, reliability, and operations.
In terms of performance:
1. It supports 400G bandwidth, ensuring high-concurrency transactions on the client side, while utilizing end-to-end NVMe to achieve low-latency transmission, reducing latency by 30 times.
2. AI-driven ECN technology ensures zero packet loss for transaction data, making the business operating environment more secure and reliable. The solution provides centralized or distributed AI ECN modes for global intelligent optimization, adapting to different business scenarios (high computing, AI, storage) to optimize watermarks intelligently, ensuring 100% throughput with zero packet loss and maximally balancing network bandwidth and latency.
In terms of reliability:
The innovative Intelligent Lossless Storage Network (iNoF) solution ensures plug-and-play device support and intelligent fast detection and switching of faults. When a host joins the iNoF network, other hosts already in the iNoF network quickly discover the newly added host and automatically initiate connections with it. When a link failure occurs in a host’s iNoF network, iNoF switches rapidly notify other hosts in the iNoF network, and these hosts can intelligently perceive and quickly switch.
In terms of operations:
1. A fully integrated Ethernet is adopted, simplifying data center deployment by converging traditional computing, high-performance computing, and storage services on a single Ethernet. Compared to running three separate networks (FC/IB/ETH) in data centers, the entire Ethernet network deployment can reduce data center operating costs by over 40%.
2. It enhances deep visualization capabilities for business, optimizing business processes. Through deep analysis of business messages and overall network traffic, it presents RDMA network topology, flow path latency, and throughput, allowing for rapid fault location and dynamic optimization, ultimately achieving a closed-loop process of data collection, analysis, and optimization.
3. It creates an end-to-end performance evaluation and optimization assistant, providing rich comparisons of RDMA whole-network performance data and configuration parameters, allowing for rapid overall network performance assessment.
Scene Applications
Efficiently Addressing Financial Scenario Requirements with Lossless Technology
The construction of financial data centers is transitioning from the era of cloud computing to the AI era, driving the high growth of computational power and requiring further upgrades in data center network throughput, latency, and packet loss to accelerate AI training.
In storage network scenarios, the H3C Lossless Solution supports an intelligent lossless storage network, providing Ethernet-based technology that ensures 0 packet loss and high throughput transmission for storage traffic.
In high-performance computing scenarios, based on understanding the financial business and intelligent recognition of network business scenarios, the H3C Lossless Solution conducts AI dynamic optimization of business model parameters. This eventually enables data migration for business within a specific region or across multiple regions. Through high-quality lossless network
Post time: Aug-09-2023
