Which bare metal cloud service provider is the best? Huawei Cloud is happy

[51CTO.com original article] A few years ago, when the public cloud quickly swept the domestic market with its powerful advantages of agility, flexibility, and low cost, the reporter once took the opportunity to ask many industry users and enterprise users the same question: Will you accept the public cloud in its entirety? At that time, many customers expressed the same meaning: the public cloud has indeed brought innovation, but they would not consider putting core applications on the public cloud in the short term. There are many reasons why core applications reject the public cloud, nothing more than the isolation of key database services, the high stability requirements of core services, and data security compliance. But now, after the launch of Huawei Cloud Bare Metal Server (BMS), many of the concerns of previous customers can be dispelled.

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Why is the "one acre and three points of land" in the cloud worth owning?

The biggest feature of Huawei Cloud Bare Metal Server is that it allows a single tenant to have a physically isolated dedicated physical server without any form of virtualization. It allows customers to enjoy excellent computing performance guarantees and the convenience and flexibility of cloud servers. It can be said that it combines the stability of traditional hosting hosts and the high elasticity of cloud resources.

So which user groups are Huawei Cloud Bare Metal Servers mainly targeting? Let the reporter tell you one by one.

If your enterprise's core business has high requirements for performance, security, and stability during the cloud migration process, and you also want to use physical machines to achieve elastic resource usage and flexible network configuration like using cloud host services, then bare metal servers are enough. Huawei Cloud BMS bare metal servers meet the mainstream scenarios of enterprise core business cloud migration:

Scenario 1 requires a combination of physical machines and virtual machines: Users need to use computing resources of various types and forms in the cloud. Simply providing virtual machines cannot meet complex application scenarios. Physical machines and virtual machines need to be used in combination to meet application requirements.

Scenario 2: High performance requirements and strict security supervision: Some special application scenarios have very high requirements for host performance and stability, or have very stringent requirements for data security and supervision. Direct use of virtual machines cannot meet customer needs and requires exclusive physical machines.

Scenario 3: Traditional hosting cannot meet the needs: In traditional physical machine hosting or leasing scenarios, the business process is complex, the equipment procurement and deployment cycle is long, and it is impossible to respond to business changes in a timely manner.

Scenario 4: Using physical machines gives you a sense of security: Some companies, especially large ones, have very complex business systems deployed in private data centers that require certain professional skills. They have trained a group of professional talents and switched to public clouds. They attach great importance to the psychological sense of security and the transformation of talent skills. They choose physical machines because they do not need to transform their business or talent skills, and are the safest.

Simply put, if a customer has an application that needs to be launched quickly, or has a temporary business load that must be launched within a few minutes and then offline after running for a period of time, and the application has general requirements for performance and stability, then a virtual machine is a good choice. However, if the customer's application is very sensitive to performance and requires a safe and reliable operating environment, then a bare metal server will undoubtedly be the best choice.

Huawei Cloud Bare Metal BMS Service has a deep accumulation

In fact, the reporter made a horizontal comparison and found that although they are all named bare metal services, each manufacturer has different focuses and advantages and disadvantages.

In contrast, Huawei Cloud's bare metal business has more advantages in technology accumulation. As early as the virtualization and private cloud era, Huawei has accumulated rich experience in bare metal business, from the early unified hardware management platform to heterogeneous server management, and then to the later cloud management platform. After focusing on public cloud business, it launched a complete bare metal service, so it has a deep understanding of the full-stack capabilities of bare metal services.

In other words, the bare metal service inherits Huawei's years of accumulation in the hardware field. Huawei's server market share in China already ranks first, and the launch of the BMS service can be said to be a product of standing on the shoulders of giants.

NO.1 with technical strength

After some understanding, the reporter summarized the advantages of Huawei Cloud Bare Metal Server into six points:

First, fully automated provisioning has been achieved. Users can apply for bare metal servers on the management console by themselves, and complete automated image installation, network configuration, cloud hard disk mounting and other functions without manual intervention. The required server can be obtained in as little as 5 minutes.

Second, it supports cloud hard disks. Users can easily mount and unmount cloud hard disks on bare metal servers online to meet customers' requirements for elastic storage. For database cluster deployment, BMS can automatically mount shared volumes, providing a good user experience. (PS: Most BMS providers do not have this core capability!)

Third, it supports VPC networks and custom networks. BMS supports network interconnection between bare metal servers and cloud servers through private networks within VPC. It also supports custom networks to achieve high-speed interconnection between bare metal servers and flexible networking.

Fourth, lifecycle management can be performed. Huawei provides a BMS management console, where users can start, shut down, restart, mount volumes, delete and other basic operations of bare metal servers, as well as perform self-maintenance functions such as monitoring, remote login, and status query.

Fifth, a variety of BMS instances for segmented scenarios. For database scenarios, BMS has launched a general specification with automatic issuance, support for shared volumes, cluster deployment, hybrid networking with virtual machines, support for elastic IP, and three copies of mounted cloud hard disks, with very high reliability. For big data scenarios, high-performance computing, and heterogeneous computing scenarios, Huawei Cloud has a wealth of instances for reference and selection.

Sixth, reliable performance and stable business. This should be the issue that users are most concerned about. Huawei's bare metal business also provides a variety of solutions for performance, data reliability, and business stability. For example, BMS can mount cloud hard disk EVS. 3 copies of redundancy, data persistence of up to 99.99999%, to ensure data security and reliability. In addition, one-click reinstallation, multi-site disaster recovery, and whole machine backup are already standard, ensuring that customers can truly go to the cloud without worry.

Although Huawei Cloud's bare metal business is already the best among its peers, it is far from stopping. Its bare metal business is still constantly optimizing various product capabilities, such as how to shorten the server startup and loading time to a minimum and reduce user waiting time. I believe that through these details, the carefully polished bare metal business of Huawei Cloud will be more favored by users with needs.

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