Overview
Sun Yat-sen University Affiliated Hospital
Country: China
Industry: Healthcare
Solution: i2Move
The hospital planned to migrate all business systems from the Mobile Transition Cloud to the newly built Mobile Industry Cloud. The migration covered 372 virtual machines (Windows: 231; CentOS: 99; Ubuntu: 42) and 14 Oracle RAC bare-metal servers, supporting 36 vendor-provided systems, including the core HIS, EMR, CDR, PACS, rational drug use, and ICU management systems.
Customer Challenge
- Large-scale migration — 372 heterogeneous VMs and 14 Oracle RAC bare-metal servers.
- Critical system dependency — Core medical platforms needed to remain operational throughout the migration.
- Zero-downtime requirement — Migration could not disrupt hospital services or patient care.
I2 Solution
- i2Move migration tool — Enabled live, hot migration of complete systems from the Transition Cloud to the Industry Cloud.
- One-click full migration — Operating systems, applications, and user data transferred as a whole.
- Predictable migration timeline — Provided accurate scheduling for minimal operational impact.
- Seamless cutover — New industry cloud hosts took over immediately after migration.
Solution Effects
- Completed full migration with zero downtime.
- Maintained complete data and system integrity.
- Minimized manual intervention through automated processes.
- Ensured uninterrupted delivery of healthcare services during cloud transition.