Inspur Releasing InCloud 3000 Hyperconverged Solutions

Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.,Ltd announced its InCloud 3000 hyperconverged solutions at the Intel Developer Forum 2016.

This offering provides simplicity, efficiency and availability, as well as gives large and mid-sized datacenters the freedom to choose hypervisors without being locked in. Customers also benefit from the InCloud 3000’s reliability and availability through N+N redundancy, 47% higher density and 15% higher energy efficiency compared to 1U rack-mounted servers.

The InCloud 3000 integrates compute, storage, networking, preconfigured virtualization resources and a cloud management platform. As a modular solution, it supports half-width compute node, full-width 4-8 socket nodes stack, PCIe extension node and storage extension node, and also integrates scale-out and scale-up technologies to provide the residence and flexibility enterprise datacenters need. The InCloud 3000 has 47% higher density compared to 1U rack-mounted server solutions. Its combined power supply and cooling system reduces power consumption by 15%.

It is based on company’s SmartRack, a rack scale converged solution that has been widely adopted by Internet and e-commerce giants, including Baidu, Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and Tencent Technology Company Limited.

The InCloud 3000 utilizes VMware Virtual SAN,and is preconfigured with the firm’s InCloud OS 4.5 and Quick Deployment Tools (QDT), resulting in a deployment speed that is ten times faster than traditional solutions. Featuring storage policy-based management, VMware Virtual SAN shifts the management model for storage from the device to the application, enabling administrators to provision storage for applications in minutes.

With QDT, 4,800 VMs or 12,480 virtual desktops can be deployed within two hours.

The InCloud 3000 includes a preconfigured InCloud Manager, providing features including resource, operation and domain management, performance and service status monitoring, workflow, metering and billing, and self-service.

“VMware and Inspur have enjoyed eight years of cooperation. Since 2008, Inspur has been an OEM partner and provider of VMware virtualization solutions. With Inspur and VMware technologies, mutual customers can realize reduced deployment times and rapidly deliver business benefits, “said Skip Bacon, VP, partner development, storage and availability business unit, Vmware, Inc.

John Hu, VP, Inspur Group, said: “As a leading service provider in cloud computing and big data, Inspur has accumulated technology strengths in high-end servers, large-scale storage, cloud OS, information security and IaaS, PaaS and SaaS total solutions. The InCloud 3000 brings our technologies, expertise and capabilities together to best serve our customers.“

The InCloud 3000 is available.