Alibaba Cloud ZStack is a hybrid solution that works servers on the edge and easy to deploy managed the on-premises and Alibaba Cloud resources. In traditional private cloud solutions are very costly for deployment but in the Alibaba Cloud ZStack is more cost-efficient and easily scalable based on business requirements. Alibaba Cloud ZStack single node deployment takes less than 30 minutes and scale-out to a multi-node production environment that can scale to hundreds of thousands. Alibaba ZStack can manage VMWare infrastructure, KVM virtualization supported with enterprise-level hybrid cloud systems easier to manage, monitor and use and system for the flexible and unified management of public and private cloud services and better integration with Alibaba Cloud’s value-added services.
Alibaba Cloud ZStack is a next-generation open source IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Future-oriented intelligent datacenters provide unified and flexible management of datacenter resources including computing, network, and storage by providing flexible and complete APIs and the implementation of interconnection networks in both the control and data plane.
Operations are extremely fast, the below performance data of creating VMs.
| VM NUMBER | TIME COST |
| 1 | 0.51 seconds |
| 10 | 1.55 seconds |
| 100 | 11.33 seconds |
| 1000 | 103 seconds |
| 10000 | 23 minutes |
Alibaba ZStack Service Overview
Simple installation and operation, simple operation and maintenance, simple operation, and friendly UI. ZStack is an open-source hybrid cloud solution. Easily download the installation package online and set up a cloud platform in just 30 minutes, and enable a one-click smooth upgrade in 5 minutes. Cost-Efficient reducing the unnecessary hardware expenses and saving 90% cost. Can manageable 10000+ hosts and 100000+ VM instances on one single node also configurable high availability VM instances. The Network supports L2 VLAN VXLAN isolation and provides security groups to apply firewall rules to the VM from malicious attacks. Cloud ZStack used in various scenarios such as Network Interconnection, Disaster Recovery, Unified Hybrid Cloud Management, One-Click Cloud Migration, Security and Protection, and Public Cloud Value-added Services.
Product advantages
- Simple
- Simple installation and deployment Provide cloud platform in 30 minutes deployment.
- Simple build cloud platform: support batch (generate, delete, etc.) operations of cloud hosts, provide list display and sliding window details.
- Friendly UI interaction: Well-designed professional operation interface, streamlined operation to achieve powerful functions.
- Strong
- a single management node manages tens of thousands of physical hosts and hundreds of thousands of cloud hosts.
- Support high concurrent API requests: A single ZStack management node can easily handle tens of thousands of concurrent API call requests per second.
- Flexible
- The support scale is unlimited: a single management node can manage from one to tens of thousands of physical hosts and hundreds of thousands of cloud hosts.
- Full API delivery: ZStack provides a full set of IaaS APIs. Users can use these APIs to complete new cross-region availability zones, network configuration changes.
- Smart
- Automatic operation and maintenance management: In the ZStack environment, everything is managed by APIs.
- Intelligent UI interaction interface: real-time resource calculation to avoid user misoperation.
- Real-time global monitoring: Real-time monitoring of the current system resource consumption of the entire cloud platform, through real-time monitoring and intelligent deployment, thereby saving IT software and hardware resources.
Schematic diagram of the system architecture
Alibaba ZStack Services (Products)
