SmartX ECP Safeguards Stable and Efficient Operation of IoV Systems

Powering millions of new energy vehicles (NEVs), the IoV captures real-time data across vehicles, roads, and people to support intelligent traffic management, dynamic information services, and vehicle control. Regulatory policies for NEVs impose strict requirements on IoV big data platforms, covering capacity alerting, elastic scalability, performance loading, and downtime limits. Consequently, a key challenge for NEV manufacturers is building an IT infrastructure capable of efficiently hosting both IoV operations and big data analytics. This architecture must not only deliver robust data processing power but also remain agile enough to adapt to evolving market demands and regulatory standards.

Changan Kuayue’s legacy IT infrastructure, based on VMware and centralized storage, faced challenges such as limited flexibility and high management complexity, making it unsuitable for IoV services. To host its new IoV platform, Changan Kuayue required an architecture where CPU, memory, and I/O average loads remain below 60%, enabling efficient parallel and real-time processing of massive data. In terms of stability and security, the platform must limit annual system downtime to within 500 minutes. Regarding scalability, the infrastructure requires capacity alerting and elastic expansion capabilities to handle large-scale data processing and ensure timely IT resource scaling as vehicle volume grows.

After technical research, Changan Kuayue identified that HCI is ideal for hosting IoV services due to its stability, high performance, and low resource overhead. Consequently, the company conducted comparative tests on SmartX ECP using both the native ELF virtualization platform and VMware. The results showed that SmartX ECP delivered robust and consistent performance under prolonged stress testing, with the ELF-based deployment consistently outperforming the VMware-based configuration.

Changan Kuayue deployed a 3-node SmartX ECP cluster to host its IoV business systems, including big data components such as Kafka and HDFS. To meet stringent business continuity requirements—specifically a downtime limit of under two hours—the company utilized SmartX migration tools to achieve a seamless transition with only minutes of downtime. Subsequently, Changan Kuayue expanded the cluster by 4 nodes. Leveraging the hardware-software decoupling of SmartX ECP, these additional nodes were successfully integrated using different hardware configurations.

The successful deployment of IoV services validates the feasibility of replacing VMware with modern HCI and demonstrates the capability of the ELF virtualization platform to support big data operations. Changan Kuayue plans to migrate its core vehicle production and sales business systems—including PLM, DMS (Dealer Management System), and production line databases—to SmartX ECP (powered by native ELF virtualization) to achieve a complete replacement of the legacy VMware environment.