“Great design is not just a solution; it is the elimination
of the problem”
In today’s technical
world people come with more ideas, out of which many are being implemented. For
every problem, there should be a solution. So in this blog, I will share few
solutions which can be used to overcome the challenges that are being faced in
the data center.
- Due to the lack of trained employee’s, data centers face more issues on resource management area. So people need to be educated more on areas like data center operation and management. By doing so, we can also eliminate the dependency on a particular resource. There is a permanent solution which is to automate the tasks which are being done manually. This would significantly reduce the need for resources.
- Another major challenge that are being faced in data center is the lack of storage area. To overcome this, storage virtualization would be the effective solution as virtualization significantly increases storage capacity utilization. It can be used to,
o
Combat
exponential data growth.
o
Increase
the utilization of existing storage assets.
o
Reduce
storage capital expenditure (capex).
o
Reduce
Operating Costs (opex) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
o
Simplify
storage management.
(Virtualization)
There are three key
properties of virtualization. First is Partitioning, where we can run multiple
operating system on one physical machine and fully utilize server resource.
Second is Isolation, where faults and security are isolated at virtual-machine
level and dynamically control CPU, memory, disk and network resources per
virtual machine. And the third property of virtualization is Encapsulation,
where we encapsulate the entire state of the virtual machine in
hardware-independent files and re-use or transfer whole virtual machines with a
simple file copy.
- High Energy consumption is the next major problem which is being faced by the data center managers. First, by decommissioning the unused servers, the list of unused server should be found and retired, which helps in decreasing the electricity consumption. According to the Up-time Institute, decommissioning a single 1U rack server can annually save $500 in energy, $500 in operating system licenses, and $1,500 in hardware maintenance costs. Secondly, it is the consolidation of lightly utilized servers by combining applications onto a single server and a single operating system instance. Also server clustering reduces the number of backup or standby servers needed by a system, which improves availability and uses hardware more efficiently.
Above are few steps
that can be used to improve the efficiency of the data center.
In my next blog, I will share more insights
on different aspects of data center. Stay Tuned...
Reference: Notes from Professor, William F. Slater, Data Center Architecture Course
Reference: Notes from Professor, William F. Slater, Data Center Architecture Course
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