H3C's Use of the Open Infrastructure Blueprint

H3C’s case study is part of an OpenStack community effort to highlight the collection of open source projects that has risen as a powerful top-to-bottom open source infrastructure stack. This stack is made with Linux, OpenStack and Kubernetes, composing the Open Infrastructure Blueprint.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation is the largest offshore oil and gas operator in China. It ranked 42nd in the Fortune Global 500 in 2023 and has been in the top ten of the S&P Global Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies for two consecutive years since 2020. The company actively promotes its digitization transformation, proposing the overall development strategy “1534,” which calls for a leap from traditional to modern, digitized, and intelligent management models. It aims to reach a world-class level in intelligent information management by 2035. “CNOOC Cloud,” as the technological foundation of the group’s digitization transformation, continuously supports the strategic goals at all stages of the group, providing unified cloud services to the headquarters and secondary and tertiary units of CNOOC.

Since 2016, H3C has been working closely with CNOOC to continuously enhance the brand value of CNOOC Cloud. H3C has built a cloud platform that spans CNOOC’s seven global zones, including a core layout of two locations and three centers, and four regional centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hainan, Shenzhen, Dubai, Singapore, and the Americas.

In 2017, H3C completed the first phase of construction and officially launched its cloud platform with the release of the “CNOOC Cloud Marketplace,” marking CNOOC’s formal entry into the era of cloud computing.
In 2018, the second phase of construction began, gradually promoting the construction of national data centers, and launching the CNOOC PaaS construction based on H3C CloudOS IAAS service.
In 2019, phase three, H3C established a cloud operations system, enhanced the cloud marketplace features, created a unified multi-cloud management system for users, and launched extensive promotional campaigns, leading to a rapid increase in cloud business volume.
In 2021, the fourth phase, H3C promoted consolidation of IaaS and PaaS services, enhancing the capabilities of major data centers, and supporting digitized service innovation. The new CNOOC Cloud plan was started to support the implementation of AI and industrial Internet platforms.

Currently, 1,873 physical servers are online on CNOOC Cloud, including 258 bare metal servers and 5,132 cloud hosts, with about 130,000 vCPU cores allocated and 5,931TB of block storage used. H3C has developed products based on open technologies such as OpenStack, including H3C CloudOS, H3C CAS, and H3C ONEStor. Leveraging its strong data center ICT infrastructure construction capabilities, H3C has built an integrated full-stack cloud platform for CNOOC Cloud that combines IaaS and PaaS. The cloud services offered include cloud hosts, bare metal, object storage, file storage, cloud desktops, cloud disks, containers, microservices, middleware, and databases. H3C also provides value-added services such as software installation, host migration, system reinstallation, indigenous transformation, and support for service migration to the cloud.

Since launch of CNOOC Cloud, H3C has helped CNOOC Cloud build its operational system, continuously increasing the number of services it carries. By 2023, CNOOC Cloud hosts about 725 applications, involving 47 departments and secondary units of CNOOC, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and CNOOC International Limited. Key users include the group headquarters. CNOOC Cloud Mall has about 3,460 registered users, the cloud drive has 39,000 registered users, and there are approximately 1,300 cloud desktop users. By combining “services and products,” H3C enhances user value perception, bridges business and IT, provides high-quality services on the CNOOC Cloud platform, and sets a benchmark in cloud management for state-owned enterprises.

This stack is made with Linux, OpenStack and Kubernetes, composing the Open Infrastructure Blueprint.

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