U.S. force: Data Center operational efficiency has become a service critical

Whether you're interested in maximizing the benefits of server virtualization, or busy building your own cloud computing hub, never forget one thing: "Make the data center's infrastructure management simple and easy, so you get more business value from lower operating costs." However, since the traditional management methods are no longer applicable to the needs of the current data center high-density equipment, and because of security and efficiency, remote management has become a data center must consider one of the priorities.

The equipment was significantly increased, the administrator was busy

With the rapid increase of network and computer room equipment, traditional data center operation and maintenance management is likely to fall into the circle of "rapid business development and management service lag". At present, the data network room, server, network equipment and so on are the basic computer room management and through some auxiliary software point-to-point remote management, or directly into the computer room for system maintenance, change, upgrade and failure recovery, and this way has not been able to adapt to the needs of high density management.

For example, for the start of the data center operation phase, the resolution of the server and equipment panic, usually simply to do a restart, and the server and equipment crashes the probability of small and small, so very few such service needs. However, due to the beginning to ignore the details of this management, as the volume of business expansion, the number of engine room servers increased, the probability of the crash is much higher, for the number of rooms in the administrator, daily need to help customers solve problems, or restart the workload is very large. After the customer found the problem to inform the company customer service, and then by the company customer service staff to the computer room administrator, the administrator to find the server in the cabinet location, and then find a problem or simply restart the work. This series of operations occur anytime and anywhere, so the administrator must, but also plagued the shuttle between the servers.

The better and simpler way to manage this problem is remote monitoring and operation. I believe we all know that there are many methods of remote management, such as installing a proxy software on each server, and then managing the terminal through the network connection Agent software to monitor and execute management commands. This approach to remote administration may be widespread, but there are still some unavoidable problems, perhaps because of the cheap price (the actual certification license fee is not low). For example: a managed server installed agent software, all data must go through the device's own Ethernet port, because there is no specific management channel and server connection, if there is a network configuration problem, you still need to run to the device to operate. And, in the case of high load and DDoS attack, we are unable to connect to them for configuration, so that the problem can not be solved.

Remote management is more conducive to the value of senior managers

At present, there is a general lack of professional management of computer room environment equipment, which is an unfavorable factor to the safe operation of computer room, therefore, the centralized monitoring and scientific management of the environment and equipment of computer room is very important. And, many rooms have to use a 24-hour special on duty to inspect the computer room of the environmental equipment, so that not only increase the enterprise's investment in human costs, but often because of these novice inexperienced, so can not timely troubleshooting.

As Data center power management, Raritan, an innovative enterprise recognized by infrastructure management, KVM, and serial port Solutions, said: "As the business and IT infrastructure work together more closely, at this stage, data center managers and business operations managers choose Remote control and management package, Many are to realize the operation and control of unmanned computer room to replace the remote management software before, because these products depend too much on the environment of the equipment itself, and a series of security problems. In order to get rid of this dilemma, KVM over IP mode of the computer room centralized management as can be independent of equipment and the bottom of the control mode displayed in the IDC room, they have been a lot of real ' understand ' the operating costs of the enterprise recognition. ”

A few years ago, many data center managers thought: "High-end digital KVM switch is not expensive, it is better to pay two people, use shifts way in the room." "In fact, these ideas still have doubts about the return on investment." But as more and more people are employed, the cost of such units is low, but in large numbers, the cost of labor is not enough to achieve the expected expenditure. Conversely, companies that use high-end KVM switch products as centralized control solutions believe that this technology can better play the role of senior technical engineers, so the cost of human resources has been greatly reduced.

"Independent" remote management method is highly recognized

As far as we know, not only is the newly built data center, some data centers that have been in service for a long time are also very active in replacing traditional manual management with KVM over IP mode. The enterprise IT environment includes servers for many different manufacturers, such as HP, IBM, and Sun, which can perform various operating systems, such as Solaris, Unix, or Windows. Because it is independent of the operating system, KVM over IP provides BIOS-level control and management, which eliminates the need for the use of "3389" or "SSH" software at the operating system level, effectively avoiding the impact of the environment.

It is believed that with the expansion of the data center scale, web-based Browser management, can help users save a lot of IT infrastructure management equipment. While reducing the consumption of power and air-conditioning systems, the use of advanced management technology to replace the traditional management method has been the data center management of a dose of medicine.