What Is CloudDC?

Introduction

Cloud Data Center (CloudDC) enables rapid transformation of traditional data centers (DCs) into cloud environments. It allows you to deploy servers in Huawei Cloud equipment rooms, taking advantage of advanced Huawei Cloud capabilities like infrastructure management, cloud-based networking, bare-metal-server management, and deterministic O&M.

Why CloudDC?

• One-stop cloud adoption of compute, networking, and storage: CloudDC offers customizable component combinations to cater to different stages of cloud adoption.
• Full-stack AI infrastructure: CloudDC helps you develop provisioning, cloud-native software stack, and infrastructure optimization capabilities for AI infrastructure. It is tailored to meet the unique needs of AI services.
• Secure and compliant cloud data centers worldwide: CloudDC uses Huawei Cloud's global storage, compute, and networking capabilities to provide stable and secure operating environments for data centers worldwide.
• O&M-free infrastructure management: CloudDC leverages Huawei Cloud's deterministic operations capabilities to make it easier to conduct comprehensive O&M of data center infrastructure, equipment rooms, as well as compute, storage, and networking resources. As you no longer need to worry about the underlying infrastructure, you have more time to focus on your services.

Functions

iRack

CloudDC provides intelligent racks (iRack), highly reliable rack infrastructure that integrates global data center resources. This eliminates the need for investments into site selection, infrastructure construction, and facility construction, accelerating service rollout.

You can access the CloudDC console to query the distribution, quantity, and operating status of racks in real time.

iMetal

iMetal helps manage your servers. You can view basic server information and install operating systems on the iMetal interface. iMetal depends on CloudDCN and the CloudDC O&M platform.

• CloudDCN: You can use CloudDCN to control your network and create VPCs and CloudDCN subnets. CloudDCN provides APIs for iMetal to create network services.
• CloudDC O&M platform: Basic information about iMetal servers is stored and reorganized in the configuration management database (CMDB) of CloudDC so that they are easy to understand on the CloudDC console.

CloudDCN

CloudDCN provides network services for CloudDC, including:

• VPC network connectivity via a gateway between the CloudDC zone and Huawei Cloud
• AI parameter-plane network for AI clusters deployed in the CloudDC zone

Architecture

CloudDC uses Huawei Cloud DC capabilities to provide DC management services. The CloudDC architecture consists of four layers, as illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1 CloudDC architecture

DC Resources

A Huawei Cloud data center integrates equipment room/rack resources, physical network and VPC network resources, and your bare metal server resources to provide IT infrastructure services.

DC Management Software

• Infrastructure management: This module provides construction and management services for equipment rooms, racks, and network resources.
• Alarm monitoring: This module provides network infrastructure traffic monitoring and topology management, facilitating infrastructure O&M.
• Service delivery: This module conducts engineering implementation and delivery for third-party servers.
• Server information collection: This module manages the operating status of your servers.

Service Support

• DC operations: This supporting part integrates the information presentation of the underlying infrastructure management modules of Huawei Cloud data centers and provides CloudDC O&M capabilities.
• CloudDC Master: This part comprises iRack, iMetal, and CloudDCN. They together provide API calling for the CloudDC console.

CloudDC Console

The CloudDC console integrates iRack, iMetal, and CloudDCN to create a unified operations and management interface. You can monitor the CloudDC status, manage its resources, and perform O&M operations on CloudDC.

Accessing CloudDC

The public cloud provides a web-based service management platform, namely, the management console.

You can access the CloudDC console on the management console.

If you have signed up for the public cloud, log in to the management console and choose Cloud Data Center from the service list. If you have not signed up for the public cloud, sign up for a HUAWEI ID and enable Huawei Cloud services.