IBM expert resolves efficient data center modeling path

"Tenkine server channel", according to IBM's latest "Global Efficient Data Center best Practices" research report, only 21% of respondents to global enterprises and organizations are running extremely efficient data centers, 62% of respondents are only medium efficiency, and 17% of data centers run very low efficiency. The scale of the data shows that global data centers are now in dire need of improved performance. May 10, 2012, IBM Global Information Technology Services (GTS) in Beijing held the theme of "Zhi Yun-Rui crown unparalleled" Wisdom Cloud Data Center Summit Forum, through the preliminary analysis of the forum, IBM expert team for the data center is currently plagued by a low efficiency of several strokes.

"The IBM Global Information Technology Service data Center Services Vice President Steven Sams parsing efficient Datacenter Features"

"1" Using virtualization technology to optimize it

In optimizing IT facilities, IBM experts recommend that virtualization technology is a prerequisite for improving energy efficiency in data centers. IBM divides data centers into four levels based on energy efficiency, with traditional, inefficient, integrated, medium-availability and efficient strategic types. According to IBM experts, 48% of the servers in a highly efficient and strategic data center are virtualized, while the virtualization penetration rate of the traditional underlying data centers is only 27%. For storage virtualization, which is tightly linked to the server, the storage virtualization rate for the Strategic data center is 93%, while the base data center is only 21%. Data shows that the degree of virtualization of strategic data centers is much higher than that of the underlying data centers. Virtualization is laid out on the basis of physical machines to meet the expansion of enterprise storage capacity and availability at lower cost.

"Optimize it facilities for maximum storage capacity and availability"

"2" adopts flexible design to support changing business

With the changing of enterprise business, the flexibility of the data center that carries the enterprise IT equipment is not negligible. It equipment is built by people, with the inevitable failure appears possible. How to flexibly design redundancy just in case it is a data center problem that users should focus on. IBM experts recommend that data centers have the right availability and redundancy necessary to ensure that service level agreement SLAs are met. And through IBM's research, 90% of the Strategic Data Center uses a dual-live configuration, only 10% of the underlying data center has a dual-live configuration. 47% of strategic data centers to upgrade mechanical and electrical equipment without terminal operation, the proportion of the basic data center has this function is only 9%. This data can be seen in the server, network, storage-side flexible design, the data center business response and Fault resolution has a certain role in helping.

"Flexible design supports changing business"

"3" Use automation tools

Automation can be said to be a further manifestation of flexibility. IBM experts point out that the use of automation tools and technology to improve the reliability of the system, and by reducing the workload of the system administrator to reduce the error rate of human operations. In IBM's research, 100% strategic data centers use automated tools to manage server environments, and 58% of strategic data centers use automated tools to migrate virtual machines without manual action, compared with just 1% of the basic data center implementations. In storage management, 87% of strategic data centers achieve higher levels of availability and automation by leveraging the storage services directory, and the underlying data centers have a billy of just 3%. In the area of network management, 30% of strategic data centers use the policy management process to automatically allocate network services, and the proportion of basic data centers to use this tool is only 3%. From this data comparison, it can be seen that automation is the key to pull off the strategic data center and Basic Data Center energy efficiency gap.

"Improve server level and availability with automation tools"

"4" make careful planning to deal with complex environment

If the first three focuses on the micro-technical aspects of the analysis of efficient data center modeling methods, then this one, planning can be said to grasp the macro-efficient data center goal of the realization of the concept. The intense external competitive market environment, as well as the increasingly changing business volume and quality of the enterprise, require the enterprise to have a careful set of more effective planning to deal with complex it internal and external environment. IBM experts believe that the so-called effective planning mainly includes technology planning, management and it planning and the use of IT outsourcing planning. Technology planning is to integrate new technology and application into the existing planning in real time; management and it planning are primarily able to prepare for forward-looking response to external environmental changes, while IT outsourcing planning is a lot of borrowing, learning to use external resources to achieve efficient management and operation, and can not rely entirely on their own internal IT operations and management, This so-called "view can not be from the ears of the thousand-June to extricate themselves." Non-eye not disease, force is not also, potential also. In the ascendant, the water in the cylinder is no potential, water if the power, overwhelming, not potential is occasion, borrow the sky, terrain, human potential. "The truth.

"Reasonable planning to achieve business objectives"