In recent years, the cloud computing market has grown rapidly, and the new demand for various data center services has also continued to grow. Cloud providers and data center partners are working around the clock to make their environments as efficient as possible. Why is this? It is to maximize their bottom line to remain competitive.
In the current highly competitive data center and cloud computing market, market leaders should provide superior services while optimizing operation and cost-effectiveness. In order to achieve this goal, enterprises need to consider some things. First, leading the market does not always mean adding more equipment. Intelligent data centers and cloud service providers should learn to make full use of their own resources. In addition, in the new concept of data center efficiency, someone raised some new questions: Is there a new technology to improve power density? Does the ROI of the data center help reduce long-term management costs? Is there a new platform for enterprises to pay less and gain more?
In many cases, the integration of data center resources can create a more efficient and competitive data center. With such an idea, managers should understand the three key areas involved in data center consolidation. They are hardware, software, and users.
1. Hardware
There are so many new types of tools that people can use to integrate service resources and physical data center equipment. Its solutions include advanced software definition technology and virtualization that helps create more flexible data center architectures. When it comes to hardware and consolidation, people usually make the following choices:
• Networks, routers, switches: These have officially virtualized the entire network layer. If enterprises choose to adopt, they can run on a complete commodity network architecture and still provide enterprise level functions. For example, cumulus networks have their own Linux distributions, and cumulus Linux hopes to run on industry standard network hardware. Basically, it is a pure software solution that provides a standard operating system for modern data center network design and operation, which is the greatest flexibility of Linux. When network components work, look for virtual services that can integrate network functions and reduce more demand for devices.
• Storage and data: Just like the network, people can now create and control their own storage architecture. Software defined storage not only advances the technology of virtualized storage controller layer, but also allows this logical component to aggregate isolated storage resources and control them through the management layer. People no longer need to worry about lost storage resources, because now all data points can be controlled through the intelligent storage management platform. In addition, new types of application level policies allow people to maximize the use of storage resources, such as flash memory, which can be applied to specific repositories through a single point.
• Blade server: In the actual computing layer, data center architects have quite a few choices. Integration enables people to create a powerful environment that couples several functions of the data center into a node based architecture. Even traditional rack mounted servers now have better resource control mechanisms and higher density. However, the new blade architecture allows direct backplane structure consolidation and more throughput. In addition, the hardware policy allows people to dynamically reconfigure resources. This enables new users to adopt a new hardware strategy on the same blade chassis. Creating an "all-weather" data center model allows people to add fewer devices, while also supporting the diversification of users.
• Management rack: cooling, power, and air flow are important considerations for the data center. When people look at the integration of the entire data center, how much power capacity is used? What are the hot spots in the data center? How efficient is the server? Are some of the latest mechanisms for managing ambient air flow used? Therefore, creating an ideal data center and rack architecture can help control more equipment, which has a long way to go. Remember that power density and workload performance will directly affect the environment variables and their health status of the data center.
2、 Software
The software part of the data center facility is critical. In this case, people talk about its management and visibility. Can you see all the resources? What to do when optimizing workloads? Because business is now directly related to its capabilities, software is more important than ever before. The hardware and software layers of modern data centers can improve its visibility.
With good management control, spanning virtual and physical components allows people to control resources and optimize overall performance. When using various management tools, consider the following factors:
• How to monitor everything from chips to cooling systems,?
• Can you see the virtual workload and how it is distributed?
• How to understand the utilization rate of hardware resources?
• How to control load balancing dynamics?
• How do DCIM solutions integrate into virtual systems and cloud computing?
• Is it possible to proactively determine resource utilization?
In addition, we also know about the data center knowledge, guide the DCIM product market, and help select, deploy, and operate the data center infrastructure management software.
3. Users
In 2007, Apple launched the first generation iPhone. In just eight years, people have seen the tremendous changes brought by the adoption of cloud computing, IT consumption, and the Internet of Things to its products and technologies. The data center supports all these new data and applications of so many new users behind the scenes. The applications, services and other key functions requested by these users enable people to produce and live productively. However, the core of all this is the role of the data center.
Data center consolidation must not have a negative impact on the user experience. contrary; A good integration solution should actually improve the overall performance and connect users. New technologies enable users to dynamically control and load balance, and users can obtain their resources and data. The new WAN control mechanism can allow delivery or rich resources from different points. The whole process is completely transparent to the end user. For the data center, the use of cloud computing, convergence and other optimization tools may make people have less resource requirements.
Strictly control data center operations involving users and business processes, which also means that data center managers must focus on new technologies and solutions to consolidate their own data centers, while also supporting the use of next-generation data centers.
