Solution Architecture

Infrastructure layer:Hardware infrastructure essential to digital-oilfield operation includes compute servers, storage, and network. Virtual resource pooling mainly consists of OS, VMs, and virtualization tools; virtualization integrates hardware resources that were deployed and managed in a scattered way into a unified resource pool, then provides them as services, while data, services, and software running on the virtual resource pool are independent of real physical resources.

Data resource layer:Responsible for data storage and management, providing high-performance, high-quality data-resource services.

Function service layer:The association layer of this private-cloud platform; downward it manages the underlying infrastructure resource pool and data resources, and upward it supports various software and modules of upper applications. Main services include: common base components, professional application components, data-service interface components, and infrastructure-layer access functional components, providing upper application systems with a service runtime-management environment and functional-component support.

Business application layer:Directly faces end users, providing business researchers with a quality software runtime and experience. Users only need to log in via the Internet, apply to the cloud platform’s management center, and can obtain any available application-software services without buying, deploying, or managing those application systems. Based on digital-oilfield business-research needs and the existing software-deployment landscape, digital-oilfield application systems mainly include: decision-support systems, production-operations management systems, and collaborative research environments.