Microsoft enterprise private cloud Toolkit

Microsoft's cloud computing strategy consists of three parts to provide three different cloud computing operation modes for its customers and partners:

1. Microsoft Operations: Microsoft builds and operates public cloud applications and services on its own, and provides cloud services to individual consumers and enterprise customers at the same time. For example, Microsoft provides end users with services such as online services and Windows Live.

2. Partner operation: isV/Si and other partners can develop various cloud computing applications such as ERP and CRM Based on Windows azure platform, and provide services to end users on Windows azure platform. Another option is that Microsoft's business productionline Suite (BPOs) product on its own cloud computing platform can also be hosted and operated by partners. BPOs mainly includes exchange online, Sharepoint online, office communications online and livemeeting online services.

Third, customer self-built: customers can choose Microsoft's cloud computing solution to build their own cloud computing platform. Microsoft can provide users with comprehensive support including products, technologies, platforms, and O & M management.

The customer's self-built private cloud is the Microsoft enterprise private cloud: deployed in the customer's data center, based on the customer's personalized performance and cost requirements, the internal service-oriented application environment. This cloud platform is based on mature products such as Windows Server and System Center, and can work with existing applicationsProgramCompatible.

Dynamic cloud solution is a cloud computing optimization and management solution provided by Microsoft Based on Dynamic Data Center technology. Enterprises can quickly build private cloud platforms for internal use based on this solution, and service providers can also build cloud computing service platforms to provide external services in a short time based on this solution. Microsoft dynamic cloud allows users to dynamically manage the infrastructure (including servers, networks, and storage) of data centers, including activation, configuration, and installation. Its core value is that it can help users improve the efficiency of IT infrastructure resources utilization, improve the infrastructure application and management level, and achieve dynamic optimization of computing resources.

Microsoft's dynamic cloud solution helps enterprises create virtual environments to run applications. Users can elastically allocate appropriate application configurations as needed and Support Dynamic Scaling. Features include deployment, 24x7 monitoring, optimization, protection, and flexible adaptation. The deployment function includes deploying resources such as servers, networks, and storage services, and flexible self-management. The 24 × 7 monitoring function includes collecting operation data to better meet SLA requirements, monitoring resource utilization, and customer self-monitoring. Optimization functions include continuous monitoring and automatic server adjustment and migration based on running needs without affecting or affecting application operation. Appropriate Resources are allocated as needed, no overprovisioning or low configuration. Protection functions include anti-virus, junk access filtering, and firewall. application and data backup ensures 99.9% normal operation time and physical security of infrastructure. Flexible adaptation features include easy environment adjustment, deployment of new resources, dynamic adjustment of storage and bandwidth as needed, support for different virtual technologies, and management of different types of virtual machines.

Specifically, Microsoft's dynamic cloud solution includes two types of solutions for different objects:

• Enterprise Customer solutions (based on dynamic data center toolkit for enterprise and other products)
• Service provider-oriented solutions (based on dynamic data center toolkit for Hoster and other products)

Dynamic Data Center toolkit for enterprise is a dynamic data center management tool provided by Microsoft for enterprise applications. Whether these enterprises are end users, system integrators, or independent software developers, the functions of this product are to optimize the user data center into a dynamic resource pool, allocate and manage IT resources provided in the form of services. Its value and advantages include:

• Architecture roadmap, deployment guide, and best practices
• Use existing development tools and technologies to develop applications
• ExampleCode

Dynamic Data Center toolkit for Hoster is a dynamic data center management tool provided by Microsoft to partners-service providers, this product enables service providers to help their customers build virtualized IT infrastructure and provide manageable services. Its value and advantages include:

• Deployment Guide: building scalable and virtualized infrastructure
• Sample Code and best practices
• Use existing development tools and technologies to develop applications

The preceding solution includes four functional modules of infrastructure, including configuration, data protection, deployment, and monitoring. Users can access these modules from the self-service Web portal or manage web portals during their applications. The dynamic cloud solution of Microsoft provides related resources and functions based on the layer-4 structure from top to bottom.

The top layer is the service layer, which provides account management, service catalog, deployment services, and user reports. The bottom layer is the management layer, which provides resource management and load balancing. the next layer is the virtualization layer, provides hardware virtualization and application virtualization. The bottom layer is the resource layer including servers, networks, and storage. It ultimately helps users implement the following functions of a dynamic data center:

• Resource Pool Management: centrally manages the hardware resources of the center, including servers, storage, and networks.
• Dynamic service allocation: the platform can dynamically allocate service resources.
• Self-service portal: users can apply for computing resources on their own as needed. The platform determines the approval result based on SLA and user payment.
• Application and service management: application management, service measurement and billing, SLA, and data storage and disaster recovery services

The above content is excerpted from an in-depth explanation of Microsoft cloud computing: Making the cloud reachable

If you already have Windows Server 2008/R2 hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine manager 2008, you can use Microsoft's Dynamic Data Center toolkit to create private cloud infrastructure for your enterprise. The final version has been released.

• download the IPD guide for Dynamic Data Center. Learn more about IPD guides for virtualization and System Center.
• download other best practices from the infrastructure planning and design series for products such as Windows Server 2008 R2, hyper-V, SQL Server 2008, exchange online, Sharepoint online, system center, and much more at the IPD home page on technet.
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