Traditional Architecture Challenges Drive Imperative IT Infrastructure Transformation
Xuanwu Hospital remains patient-centered, continuously enhancing its informatization level and actively embracing new technologies to serve healthcare construction. The hospital's legacy traditional architecture faced challenges such as complex operations and high investment costs, while foreign hyper-converged infrastructure vendors could no longer provide subsequent service support. Following a comprehensive evaluation of IT infrastructure cloud transformation, horizontal scalability, stability, and domestic substitution, the hospital planned to introduce SmartX ECP. This transition aims to resolve resource pooling issues for computing and storage, ensure business system continuity and reliability, and enable expansion aligned with the pace of hospital business development.
Key Evaluation Criteria for Product Selection
After deciding to adopt hyper-converged infrastructure, the hospital introduced products from multiple vendors for detailed evaluation based on performance, interface usability, and overall effectiveness. Key focus was placed on technical service capabilities, learning curves, and cost-effectiveness to ensure business continuity and reduce operational complexity for engineers.
"We prefer to partner with companies that maintain a dedicated focus on their specific product. Only enterprises specialized in the development and deployment of such products are our preferred partners, as they can ensure the stable and reliable operation of our entire business system. Consequently, we ultimately selected SmartX as our hyper-converged infrastructure vendor."
Phased Deployment of SmartX ECP to Achieve VMware Substitution
During the initial exploration, Xuanwu Hospital recognized the reliability and stability of SmartX ECP. During the major upgrade of the Hospital Information System, the hospital deployed all application servers—the core business—on SMTX OS, satisfying the operational requirements of the hospital’s overall core services.
Subsequently, the hospital adopted SMTX OS (based on native virtualization ELF) to replace the existing VMware virtualization clusters, supporting application systems including the HIS database standby, IIH infrastructure (Redis), PACS frontend, anesthesia and surgery systems, and data quality monitoring. Among these, the HIS database standby cluster utilizes Oracle ADG technology to achieve disaster recovery protection for the source Database Machine, ensuring business continuity.
"Since its launch in July last year, the HIS inpatient system at Xuanwu Hospital has operated smoothly for a full year without any catastrophic failures. This stability forms the foundation for our continued partnership with SmartX. Xuanwu Hospital recently passed the National Health Commission's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Level 5 rating. Throughout the Level 5 upgrade process, various business system modifications, testing, and joint debugging were deployed on SmartX ECP. SmartX played a vital role and provided significant support in helping Xuanwu Hospital achieve this high-level EMR rating."
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