Overview
China Southern Power Grid | Fortune 500 companies Country: China Industry: Energy
As China Southern Power Grid Peak Shaving and Frequency Regulation Power Generation Co., Ltd. advances its digital transformation in power dispatching, it has partnered with Information2 to achieve high availability and disaster recovery for massive virtual machines. This collaboration enables one-click failover and failback without manual intervention, significantly improving operational efficiency and accuracy. Furthermore, the solution enhances data security and business continuity, supporting China Southern Power Grid’s digital transformation.
Customer Challenges
The company’s business systems operate on China Southern Power Grid’s cloud platform, but high availability (HA) had not been established. With increasing digitization, ensuring business continuity became an urgent priority. Any cloud platform failure could lead to a shutdown of critical business systems, resulting in incalculable losses. The company sought a disaster recovery solution to maintain business continuity by enabling failover from cloud to on-premises systems.
I2 Solution
After evaluating the existing platform and environment, Information2 helped the company establish an on-premises VMware virtualization platform and implemented a one-to-one cloud-to-local disaster recovery solution using high availability software. The steps included:
- Deploying an On-Premises Virtualization Platform: Using existing hardware, software, and network resources, Information2 set up a VMware platform in the customer’s data center.
- Migrating Virtualized Systems: Using Information2’s professional migration tools, nearly 100 virtualized systems were safely and efficiently migrated to the local platform, ensuring consistency between cloud and on-premises environments.
- Disaster Recovery and High Availability Management: After deployment, data consistency checks ensured synchronization between cloud and on-premises systems. High availability policies were configured to enable one-to-one disaster recovery failover.
Solution Effects
By implementing Information2’s migration and high availability solution, the company successfully reused existing data center infrastructure to build a multi-layered protection mechanism for its core business systems. This minimized the risk of downtime caused by single-system or cloud platform failures. The solution also improved overall system reliability and availability without requiring significant additional hardware investments, achieving both economic and operational benefits.