Liuzhou Liutie Central Hospital

Insufficient Disaster Recovery Capabilities Due to Multi-Platform Coexistence
As the hospital’s IT infrastructure continues to develop, the existing IT facilities have gradually exposed issues such as platform complexity and insufficient disaster recovery capabilities, particularly in ensuring data security and business continuity. Liuzhou Liutie Central Hospital’s main data center has a complex situation with multiple platforms coexisting, including domestic virtualization platforms, VMware virtualization platforms, and some physical servers. This has led to high costs for a dual-active data center and difficulty in unified management. Additionally, the hospital only has one data center, with both business operations and backups centralized in the main server room, which presents data security risks and business continuity threats. There is an urgent need to build a disaster recovery data center to enhance the system’s risk resilience. The main requirements are as follows:

• Build a Disaster Recovery Data Center: Set up a comprehensive disaster recovery backup platform.
• Business Disaster Recovery Backup: Implement disaster recovery backup for core business systems (HIS, PACS, LIS, physical examination, integration platform core business systems, and their associated business systems) at the main center, ensuring rapid business takeover and emergency drills in the event of a disaster.
• Quick Resource Switching: Achieve one-click resource switching and reversal, centralize data replication technology management, and ensure business continuity.

To address these challenges, the hospital has decided to initiate a disaster recovery backup system upgrade project to mitigate potential data security risks and ensure the continuous and stable operation of business systems under all circumstances.

ZStack HCI for Building a Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure for the Hospital
ZStack HCI was selected in IDC’s “China Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market Evaluation 2023” report. The IDC report notes that, unlike traditional hyperconverged products with limited virtualization functions, ZStack HCI is a next-generation cloud infrastructure that provides comprehensive cloud computing capabilities to meet diverse customer needs, creating a simple, stable, secure, and efficient new IT infrastructure. ZStack HCI hyperconverged products are known for their high quality, excellent service, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use.

As a disaster recovery center’s cloud infrastructure, ZStack HCI integrates computing, network, and storage resources into a unified resource pool. It allows the backup of virtual machines and physical machines from the hospital’s existing virtualization platform, as well as disaster recovery backup for core center business systems (such as HIS, PACS, LIS, physical examination, and integration platform core business systems and their affiliated systems), along with disaster recovery takeover and emergency drills. The primary functions achieved include:

• Heterogeneous Compatibility: Supports backup of various virtualization platforms and physical machines without resource equivalence, reducing deployment difficulty and cost.
• Real-Time Backup and Flexible Strategies: Real-time CDP backup for critical business systems and scheduled backup for non-critical business systems, ensuring flexibility and efficiency in data backup.
• Emergency Takeover Capability: Quick business emergency takeover, ensuring business continuity is unaffected.
• Reduced Risks from Non-Core Products: Utilizes non-core underlying virtualization platforms to reduce the risk of simultaneous issues with the same product.

Customer Benefits

• Enhanced Data Security and Business Continuity
  ZStack HCI builds the disaster recovery data center, implementing business disaster recovery backup and emergency takeover, ensuring data security and business continuity. By using non-core products, the probability of simultaneous failures with the same product is reduced, further mitigating risks.
• Cost and Complexity Reduction
  The heterogeneous platform disaster recovery backup solution is simpler and more cost-effective compared to a dual-active architecture. It also meets the hospital’s IT infrastructure requirements for electronic medical record (EMR) ratings and interoperability ratings.
• Stable, Reliable, and Easy to Use
  ZStack’s self-developed architecture is stable and reliable, with a simple and user-friendly platform that makes management and expansion easy. Built-in multiple high-availability strategies prevent single points of failure and enable self-healing for faults.