IBM SoftLayer Cloud Experience Overview

Zhengzhou Second Life Technology Co., Ltd., is a commitment to the game development and operation of the enterprise, its total staff of more than 100 people, the development, operation of the game has 30 balance, the total open service volume of thousands of, active gamers nearly million. From the vertical business is divided into the development Department, Operations department, the operation of the Department, involved in a variety of games are also very much, both the traditional end of the tour, there are also pages and hand-swimming and other emerging game categories. At the same time, the company also has advanced development team and Operation team, in the gaming industry, has now slowly to the Giants, Tencent, NetEase, 37wan and other game tycoons on par.

Server resources become the "soft rib" of gaming industry

Because of the particularity of the game industry, each of the games in each district service, need at least a virtual server to support, this is every industry companies have to consider an important issue. It is necessary to consider the convenience of server management, stability and security, but also consider the cost of the server itself. We have 12 of people's operational team to manage our current possession of more than 200 physical servers, making their workload miserable every day, on the one hand because of the computer room is far away, the other side due to open the service of the frequent, resulting in the operation of the team's workload is very large.

Due to historical problems, our server is the original CentOS series, or even Windows Server 2003, and due to the constraints of load balancing, the server has long been unable to easily move, is a weak link of the company. As in charge of technology, I also said, is also a long-standing heart.

Database compared to load balancing is more difficult to break the barrier, huge game data are in several of these servers, with the number of open to increase, we have to constantly add database server. Servers that are also offline can not be withdrawn.

Bandwidth is also a very serious problem, the game industry has a particular, that is the problem of human flow, the game just on the first day of the online may be enough for 1 servers, tomorrow will need 10 servers, users quickly break in. Prepare less suddenly come to the pressure is not enough to keep up, the investment has caused a lot of waste of resources. There is an immeasurable problem, and in order to ensure the player experience, the change of bandwidth is a very troublesome big problem.

Based on the above reasons, the server for our side has been a difficult problem to solve, is our technical department is reluctant to be weak. Server allocation and use has been maintained a high degree of tension, but has not found an effective and reasonable solution. But in order not to affect the company's development, we can only continue to purchase servers, constantly upgrade equipment and bandwidth.

SoftLayer help game industry solve server resource allocation problem

With the development of the company, the drawbacks are more and more prominent, which restricts the development of the company seriously. The newly elected me, determined to solve this problem thoroughly. I ask our team to pay more attention to the market solutions, while referring to the other enterprises in the industry solutions, as soon as possible to resolve. Emperor. Recently, through a 51CTO held by the IBM SoftLayer trial activities, I hold a try attitude, got the SoftLayer server trial opportunity.

Frankly speaking, my English is not good, softlayer the whole English page let me once very painful. There is a general understanding of the relative translation. Not at the time. When I almost want to give up, think of it is not really sorry I have to check the half a day dictionary it? So I made a pretty good decision: to go on a deep trial, and now I'm glad I almost missed a good solution. But still very much hope that SoftLayer can provide the Chinese version of the management panel.

After landing on the discovery and the previous use of the user Center is very different, due to the unfamiliar English, groping for 30 minutes, finally gave up the KVM way to land. Because Java virtual machines need to be installed. and found the simple management center of the entrance, the original is control.softlayer.com, rather than manage.softlayer.com. Landed in and found a very harmonious atmosphere of the portal.

The first is the configuration panel, which lists the configuration information I filled out when I tried it out.

Tickets panel, is the record of the operation. It's a historical retrospective.

Usage this is a statistical panel that generates graphical statistical information. Can see the CPU and memory, such as the use of records, convenient operation and maintenance personnel at any time to monitor the server.

Bandwidth This is bandwidth statistics, here you can monitor the actual use of traffic bandwidth, the same here can generate reports. But I feel the distribution of this color is a bit problematic, blue and green are similar, not easy to distinguish. (Maybe it's my weakness?) who knows. )

Monitoring, this is surveillance.

Security, this is a secure configuration.

Password This is a password management, you can modify the password can operate.

After probably looked at, immediately entered the server, experienced a bit of speed, this is always a very concerned about our problem. The result is very satisfying, we began to use the stress test, the results found that the number of people basically have no effect on speed, which makes all of our department colleagues are full of praise! Sure enough, the 10G fiber direct connection.

After determining the speed, we began to test the configuration of the machine itself and its compressive resistance. As a result, this only 1GB memory machine load is also very impressive. IBM's machine still works as usual.

At the same time, we note that these machines use intranet network card, Private receptacle make our web cluster, database server group and so can seamless migration, and more efficient and safe!

Next we tested the security, emergency processing, etc., did not appear any problems, won the applauded of all our technical staff! At the same time, for our industry particularity, SoftLayer Cloud Server can upgrade the configuration at any time to make it easier to change the configuration of flexibility, No longer need to worry about server configuration is not enough, not to worry about server redundancy caused by waste. Its convenient management, fast operation has won the applause of everyone, but also with our company to rub a spark. Colleagues in the operation and maintenance department have long breathed a sigh of relief. And I was thinking, SoftLayer is such a handy management tool that 1 people can manage 500 servers. What about the extra people in the Transport Department? I hope the boss doesn't think of firing them.

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