What Did Huawei Reveal at OpenStack Paris 2014? Key Insights and Innovations

OpenStack2014

Wang Haiying – Enterprise OpenStack Discussion

Huawei, as a global ICT leader, has rapidly increased its contributions to the OpenStack community, driving worldwide development and promoting the integration of OpenStack with NFV technologies.

OpenStack2014

Gu Jiong Jiong, Huang Chaoyi, Alexis – Multi‑Site Heterogeneous OpenStack Cascading Solution

Addressing the need to integrate multiple data centers and vendors into a single cloud, we propose an innovative OpenStack cascading technology driven by real customer requirements, demonstrated across three sites and three data centers.

OpenStack2014

Wang Haiying, Shuo Yang – OpenStack Deployment Tools

We introduced Comprass to simplify OpenStack deployment and management, enabling more users to experience its benefits.

OpenStack2014

Wang Haiying, Weidong Shao, Sam Su, Wei Xu, Shuo Yang – Business‑Driven Infrastructure Practice: 200‑Node Big Data Cloud Platform

In the era of software‑defined everything, Huawei's Compass design aligns with this trend. Together with Tsinghua University, we built a 200‑node OpenStack cluster, providing computing resources to about 50 researchers and students across multiple disciplines.

OpenStack2014

Gu Jiong Jiong – Soft Passthrough and User‑Space DPDK: NFV‑Focused Optimization

For OpenStack NFV cloud scenarios, we address data‑plane performance bottlenecks and automation challenges by presenting software passthrough and user‑space DPDK solutions.

OpenStack2014

Shuo Yang – Software Defined Infrastructure: Provisioning and Managing an OpenStack Cloud

Compass not only deploys OpenStack but also other cluster types such as storage clusters. It automatically discovers servers via SNMP, installs OS, and provisions clusters, differentiating itself from tools like Fuel through topology auto‑discovery.

OpenStack2014

Ren Zhipeng, Wang Haiying – Huawei OpenStack Journey

Huawei FusionSphere 5.0 cloud OS integrates the latest OpenStack Juno release as its core infrastructure, adding Huawei‑developed software‑defined storage and networking, enhanced automation, and extensions for telecom and business cloud virtualization via standard OpenStack plugins and drivers.