WING CLOUD BUILDS STATE-OF-THE-ART DATA CENTER ON BROCADE CLOUD NETWORKING FOUNDATION

Guizhou Service Provider Embraces Ethernet Fabric, Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization Technology

Guizhou’s Wing Cloud High Technology Ltd (Wing Cloud), a cloud computing service provider, is aiming to be an innovation hub of the province, with support from Brocade. The company has successfully deployed a large-scale Ethernet fabric based on Brocade^® VCS^® Fabric technology, as the critical network foundation of its new cloud data center.

By leveraging infrastructure such as abundant hydropower and well-developed transport links, the Guizhou Provincial Government has set a target to develop the provincial capital, Guiyang, into one of China’s top-tier hubs for cloud computing and Big Data by 2020. To align with this initiative, Wing Cloud was established last year and invested an initial 300 million yuan (US$48 million) to build an 8,800 square-meter data center that can support up to 12,000 servers and multitenant cloud computing operations.

In order to build an Ethernet fabric that could scale to thousands of ports within a single Layer 2 domain, Wing Cloud deployed a pair of Brocade VDX^®8770 Switches as spine switches in conjunction with more than 100 Brocade VDX 6710 and VDX 6740 leaf switches that provide wire-speed 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE top-of-rack connectivity to servers hosting virtual machines. The Brocade VCS fabric is elastic, self-forming and self-healing, with efficient multipathing, automatic load balancing and support for secure VM mobility. These capabilities enabled Wing Cloud administrators to focus on service delivery rather than network administration.

In addition to the data center Ethernet fabric, Wing Cloud also deployed highly scalable Brocade MLXe-16 core routers to support extremely reliable and secure high-bandwidth connections to customers. The entire infrastructure is managed through Brocade Network Advisor, an easy-to-use network management platform for Brocade switches and routers across the entire network lifecycle. Wing Cloud can use Brocade Network Advisor to manage its data center fabric as a single entity or drill down to individual switches for fault, inventory or performance management.