Shandong Airlines Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Shandong Airlines”) was established in 1994, with its core main bases located in Jinan, Qingdao, and Yantai. It has built a route network layout that covers the whole country while considering surrounding areas, maintaining a continuous 30-year safety flight record and winning the “Five-Star Flight Safety Award” from the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Shandong Airlines always remembers its original mission of being rooted in Qilu, fulfilling social responsibilities, and deepening state-owned enterprise reforms. Ensuring safety, expanding routes, and improving services, it is the first and only civil aviation enterprise to receive the “National Quality Award”.
Platform Upgrade is Imperative Driven by Internal and External Factors
As the business scale continues to expand and the external technological environment changes dynamically, platform upgrades have become a forward-looking choice to support future development. From the perspective of the external environment, to reduce dependence on a single technology, enhance the autonomous controllability of IT systems, and better meet the strict safety compliance requirements of the aviation industry, Shandong Airlines needs to build a more flexible technological foundation. Internally, business growth demands higher standards for the integration of diverse computing power, efficient unified management, and business continuity assurance. Against this backdrop, creating an open, intelligent, and reliable new generation virtualization foundation has become an inevitable choice for Shandong Airlines to balance safe operations and long-term development.
Three Core Demands Test Migration’s Hard Power
This platform upgrade involves optimizing the underlying architecture, requiring precise responses to three core demands to ensure a smooth transformation:
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Smooth and Stable Migration: It is necessary to achieve zero business interruption, user transparency, and zero data risk, with the new platform seamlessly connecting and upgrading in functionality and performance with the original environment, ensuring stable operation of core business;
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Diverse Computing Power Integration: To optimize resource utilization and enhance architectural flexibility, Shandong Airlines plans to build a resource pool using servers with different architectures, requiring the new platform to have unified management and intelligent scheduling capabilities for heterogeneous computing resources, simplifying operational complexity.
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Controllable Business Continuity: The aviation industry has extremely high requirements for system stability, necessitating the establishment of a solid and reliable business-level disaster recovery system to ensure that in the event of an accident at the primary data center, the disaster recovery center can quickly and orderly take over critical business, ensuring uninterrupted flight operations.
Customized Migration Path to Achieve Advanced Upgrades
Faced with Shandong Airlines’ high standards and complex application scenarios, Inspur Yunhai has relied on mature migration solutions and strong platform capabilities to create a customized smooth migration upgrade plan. By building an integrated high-performance virtualization resource pool, it achieves an advanced upgrade from the original platform to the new generation architecture, creating a solid foundation for the continuous and stable operation of the business.
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At the infrastructure level, the project deploys multiple Inspur servers (including C86 architecture and ARM architecture), based on the Inspur Yunhai InCloud Sphere virtualization platform, achieving online hot migration of business from the original virtualization environment to the new platform, with zero business interruption throughout the process, fully demonstrating the smoothness of the migration.
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In architectural design, multiple virtualization clusters have been innovatively deployed, and through the iCenter unified management platform, unified management, monitoring, and scheduling of the aforementioned multi-cluster resources are achieved. At the same time, based on a dual data center architecture, a reliable business-level disaster recovery capability has been established to ensure that critical business can be quickly restored under extreme conditions.
Migration Results: Platform Advancement, Value Leap
After the successful implementation of the plan, it not only achieved a smooth replacement of the original platform but also completed a comprehensive upgrade of the IT architecture, bringing multi-dimensional value enhancement to Shandong Airlines:
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Smooth Migration Ensures Continuity: With the help of the InCloud Sphere virtualization platform and iCenter management capabilities, the underlying platform switch is completed through cross-cloud migration technology, ensuring the core business system remains stable throughout.
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Unified Control Improves Efficiency: A single iCenter management platform achieves unified management of C86 and ARM virtualization clusters and bare metal resources, simplifying operational processes and reducing management costs, relieving the IT team and increasing efficiency.
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Agile and Reliable Strong Support: The elastic expansion characteristics of cloud resources allow for rapid adjustment of resource allocation based on business needs, and high availability design further enhances the stability of business operations, providing strong support for business expansion.
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Disaster Recovery System Ensures Safety: The dual data center architecture design ensures that in the event of a failure at the airport data center, the local disaster recovery center can promptly take over the business, adding a double insurance to Shandong Airlines’ safe operations.
The core value of this upgrade project lies in achieving a smooth iteration and capability upgrade of the IT foundation through “smooth migration.” Inspur Yunhai, through a customized solution, not only meets Shandong Airlines’ core requirement for business continuity but also injects more stable and efficient technological momentum into its aviation safety operations and long-term business development through unified control, diverse computing power integration, and a reliable disaster recovery system.
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