Topic for the class: Data Center Technology

Unit II : Cloud Enabling Technology

Smt. K. Neelima Santoshi

Assistant Professor
Department of CSE
GITAM School of Technology (GST)
Visakhapatnam – 530045
Email: [email protected]

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 CONTENTS
• Data Center Technology
– Virtualization
– Standardization and Modularity
– Automation
– Remote Operation and Management
– High Availability
– Secure-Aware Design, Operation and Management
– Facilities
• Summary
• Acknowledgements
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 DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY
Grouping IT resources in close proximity with one another, rather than
having them geographically dispersed, allows for power sharing, higher
efficiency in shared IT resource usage, and improved accessibility for IT
personnel. These are the advantages that naturally popularized the
data center concept.

Modern data centers exist as specialized IT infrastructure used to

house centralized IT resources, such as servers, databases, networking
and telecommunication devices and software systems.
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 DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY
Data centers are typically comprised of the following technologies and
components:
– Virtualization
– Standardization and Modularity
– Automation
– Remote Operation and Management
– High Availability
– Secure-Aware Design, Operation and Management
– Facilities

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 VIRTUALIZATION
Data centers consist of both physical and virtualized IT resources.
The physical IT resource layer refers to the facility infrastructure that
houses computing/networking systems and equipment, together with
hardware systems and their operating systems.
The resource abstraction and control of the virtualization layer is
comprised of operational and management tools that are often based
on virtualization platforms that abstract the physical computing and
networking IT resources as virtualized components that are easier to
allocate, operate, release, monitor and control.
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 VIRTUALIZATION

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 STANDARDIZATION AND MODULARITY
Data centers are built upon standardized community hardware and
designed with modular architectures, aggregating multiple identical
building blocks of facility infrastructure and equipment to support
scalability, growth and speedy hardware replacements.
Modularity and standardization are key requirements for reducing
investment and operational costs as they enable economies of scale for
procurement, acquisition, deployment, operation and maintenance
processes.

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 AUTOMATION
Data centers have specialized platforms that automate tasks like
provisioning, configuration, patching and monitoring without
supervision.

Advances in data center management platforms and tools leverage

automatic computing, technologies to enable self-configuration and
self-recovery.

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 REMOTE OPERATION MANAGEMENT
Most of the operational and administrative tasks of IT resources in data
centers are commanded through the network’s remote consoles and
management systems.

Technical personnel are not required to visit the dedicated rooms that
house servers, except to perform highly specific tasks, such as
equipment handling cabling or hardware level installation and
maintenance.

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 HIGHLY AVAILABILITY
Since any form of data center usage significantly impacts business
continuity for the organizations that use their services, data centers are
designed to operate with increasingly higher levels or redundancy to
sustain availability.

Data centers usually have redundant, uninterruptable power supplies,

cabling and environmental control sub-systems in anticipation to
system failure, along with communication links and clustered hardware
for load balancing.
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 SECURITY-AWARE DESIGN, OPERATION AND
MANAGEMENT
Requirements for security, such as physical and logical access controls and data
recovery strategies, need to be thorough and comprehensive for data centers,
since they are centralized structures that store and process business data.
Due to the sometimes prohibitive nature of building and operating on-premise
data centers, outsourcing data center-based IT resources has been a common
industry practice for decades.
The outsourcing models often required long-term commitment and usually
could not provide elasticity issues that are typically cloud can address via
inherent features, such as ubiquitous access, on-demand provisioning rapid
elasticity and pay-per-use.

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 FACILITIES
Data center facilities are custom-designed locations that are outfitted
with specialized computing, storage and network equipment.

These facilities have several functional layout areas, as well as various

power supplies, cabling and environmental control stations that
regulate heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection and other
related sub-systems.

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 SUMMARY

A data center is a specialized IT infrastructure that houses centralized

IT resources, such as servers, databases and software systems.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Cloud Computing Concepts, Technology & Architecture – Thomas Erl,
Zaigham Mahmood and Ricardo Puttini
• patterns.arcitura.com

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 THANK YOU

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