With the rapid development of securities business, these traditional storage architectures often have a series of problems, such as difficulty of capacity expansion, lower access speed and limitation of data migration. These points make users eager to find a new storage solution.

After evaluations, the Dell EMC+i2DTO solution that proposed by Information2 was adopted. In specific application, i2DTO can backup massive unstructured data of NAS storage to object-oriented storage, which reduces the cost of storage and maintenance. At the same time, i2DTO can also restore the backup data from object-oriented storage to the storage of production host.

After detailed solution integration and system product testing, the solution of Dell EMC+i2DTO project was deployed successfully. Haitong Securities makes real-time backup for PB-level unstructured data of the whole business system, to ECS object storage centrally. On the one hand, it makes a good foundation for the practical application of data life cycle management, artificial intelligence and other technologies in the follow-up business development. On the other hand, it greatly improves the retrieval and access performance of unstructured data such as images and videos, and further improves the efficiency of business management, and creates a new world for information technology.

The Shanghai branch of the PBC

Requirement

The IT business architecture of the Shanghai branch of the PBC is based on physical machine and virtualization platform. It adopts a separate framework, in which front-end, middleware and database are deployed separately. The existing timing backup solution can’t meet the following business needs:

1.Replace old equipment with new ones timely and effectively.

2. Conduct cross-platform migration, including from physical machine to different virtualization or private cloud platforms;

3. Conduct data migration among different servers which are of different brands and types, and the traditional migration methods cannot overcome these limitations and difficulties.

4. Guarantee continuity of important business system, such as avoiding SIOS caused by system failure in virtualized environment;

5. Certain system’s continuity is required to be upgraded to live up to new regulations or for other reasons.

Solution

After investigation, i2 DR solution is adopted, including:

1. By i2Move, it can build disaster recovery server quickly on the virtualization platform of local data center;

2. By i2Avalibility, it can realize data replication to disaster recovery server in real time when business system works normally, and automatic business takeover when business system fails.

3. By i2CDP, it can protect data in DR center, and solve problems caused by unexpected deletion, mistaken operation, virus infection, and other failures. Data backup in disaster recovery center can also reduce I/O pressure for production system.