Enterprise Private Cloud Transformation: extending to infrastructure and management

The two main factors driving an enterprise into a private cloud are: The first is business-driven. According to IDC data, the business unit is 5 times times more eager to adopt cloud services than it does. The second is that the IT industry is facing the challenges of infrastructure fragmentation, control and integration. At the same time, data show that most of the enterprise 70% of IT spending on operations and existing business system maintenance, only about 30% of the expenditure spent on innovation.

The integrated infrastructure, proposed by HP, is regarded as the vanguard of the private cloud of enterprise, which can effectively solve the imbalance between business and IT support. China HP Co., Ltd. Technical Services Division infrastructure Solutions China general manager Zhou Peiyong said in an interview: "The extension of the integration infrastructure is two, one is to the management level extension, we will use it for business, service management, rather than simple machine management. The other is an extension to the bottom of the infrastructure that allows us to manage the IT platform more broadly. ”

Integration infrastructure

What should it be like to implement a converged infrastructure? As you can see from the Zhou Peiyong introduction, you can adjust the power distribution in the data center according to the needs of the business. Not only is the device itself power consumption, but also a lot of ancillary equipment, such as air-conditioning, lighting and so on. Under what circumstances should use UPS, air conditioning should be what kind of arrangement? What kind of air supply should it be? All these directly affect the efficiency of data center energy use.

The 2nd is virtualization. The integration of hosts, storage, networks, and all of the infrastructure components through a virtualized resource pool includes different heterogeneous products. As a key feature of the converged infrastructure, the virtual resource pool shares the collection of servers, storage, and network capacity, and quickly configures resources as required by the application. Managers can also easily access technical services from resource pools to support changing business needs more quickly. This not only maximizes customer resources, but also increases scalability, flexibility, and utilization of large-scale infrastructure.

The 3rd is the elastic structure. There are many different types of equipment purchased in the enterprise, and the software system changes in different versions, which can easily cause the application to be limited in the extension. HP's resilient structure is based on industry standards and incorporates a variety of protocol specifications that can easily achieve high scalability of IT infrastructure.

The 4th is the operating environment of the infrastructure. What is now available to customers is not only a platform, but also a resource that can provide services to the customer's business. Leveraging a standardized shared environment, reducing the complexity of operations, and managing through policy-based management automation, template-driven application deployments, dramatically shortens the time that applications are deployed from deployment to business-generated value.

China Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd. Technical Services Division infrastructure Solutions China general manager Zhou Peiyong

Zhou Peiyong believes that these four features should be available in an IT environment that is truly capable of implementing a converged infrastructure. "Once it was called a cost center, then we wanted to be a service center in the future." "If as a service person, it must be different from what it is now, and that is the real value of the fusion infrastructure," Zhou Peiyong said. ”

Accelerate transition to private cloud

The enterprise private cloud should contain six capabilities: a single governance and security model, self-service on demand, automated measurement and billing capabilities, scalable and responsive to mission-critical high availability, optimization of business applications, and the ability to integrate and expand with third parties in an open manner. As a result, many policymakers would argue that private clouds are built with a high degree of complexity and long implementation cycles. HP launched Cloudstart solution, 30 days to achieve the enterprise private cloud building and deployment.

Zhang, Senior Advisor to the Infrastructure Consulting Services Division of China Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd, shared the three solutions that HP is doing to accelerate the deployment of private cloud in the enterprise, the first of which is the Cloudstart solution. "It's very exciting to have a 30-day cloudstart to build and deploy an enterprise private cloud and create a platform like Amazon cloud services within the corporate firewall," he said. "Within 30 days, users can get six of the capabilities that the corporate private cloud encompasses," Zhang. The solution, of course, is based on the BladeSystem matrix, so the planning and definition of services, computing service implementations, tiered backup strategies, security policies, and cost-sharing and reporting are needed in the early stages of implementation, Also ensures better implementation of the matrix based cloud service automation for application resource allocation and monitoring. ”

Senior Consultant manager, Infrastructure consulting Services, Technical Services Division, China HP Zhang

The second is the Matrix upgrade service. It includes two small solutions, one is based on the matrix of HP Cloud Automation (CSA), the second is through the StorageWorks software to achieve the simplification of storage resources, accelerate application deployment.

The third is a new cloud map. can help enterprises accelerate business application automation, follow the steps to create a service catalog quickly and continuously, or develop scripts to help customers customize the service catalog. Apply schema templates to embed heterogeneous applications into the matrix and integrate them into the customer's application environment.