Private Cloud infrastructure architecture

IBM Blue Cloud Architecture

IBM's cloud computing architecture comes from the blue cloud solution. It is an enterprise-class cloud computing solution developed by IBM's Cloud Computing center. The solution can integrate the enterprise's existing infrastructure, through virtualization technology and automation technology, build the cloud computing center owned by the Enterprise, realize the unified management, unified distribution, unified deployment, unified monitoring and unified backup of the enterprise's hardware resources and software resources, and break the monopoly of the application on resources, To help enterprises realize the concept of cloud computing.

The following figure is the IBM Cloud computing platform Architecture:

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As you can see, the Blue Cloud computing platform consists of a data center, IBM Tivoli Deployment Management software (Tivoli Provisioning Manager), IBM Tivoli Monitoring Software (IBM Tivoli monitoring), IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2 database, and some open source information processing software and open source virtualization software together.

Second, how to build a private cloud

IBM's Infrastructure Cloud (IaaS), built in two ways, one is "build", the other is called "step" way. In the "self-built" area, the main solutions include: stable and reliable power Cloud, Zlinux Cloud for large-scale applications, x Cloud for desktop applications, cloud storage for information-soaring, and Tivoli software products that improve manageability.

In the way of "step", the author focuses on how to build the "private cloud" of enterprise. Implement a one-stop deployment of enterprise Private cloud: Implement configuration, integration, and test quick Launch, including initial skill conversion. Includes IBM Cloudburst (System x and Power Bae), IBM High-expansion network-attached storage (SONAS).

1. Quick Deployment Cloud--cloudburst

Cloudburst is a cloud infrastructure proposed by IBM in June 2009, cloudburst from the English word "cloud, torrential rain", which means it can help the enterprise build a cloud quickly. In fact, Cloudburst is an example of a "blue cloud" architecture in a specific scenario.

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Introduction to IBM's Cloudburst architecture: Provides a practical, integrated cloud computing environment that enables enterprise users to quickly experience the value of cloud computing. Can simplify the management of scalable computing resources. A small, medium and large environment (4-28 blades) that can be customized to the degree of modularity and can be automatically expanded.

2. Cloudburst Hardware and software components

Cloudburst is based on the IBM System x server, the latest release of Cloudburst 2.1 is based on a more powerful HS22V blade server, configured with 72GB main memory (formerly 48G memory), more than 50% higher than the previous version. IBM Cloudburst has three configurations, each of which is a 42U rack. The smallest configuration is 1 BladeCenter chassis and 4 blade servers, running 100 virtual machines, top up to 2 BladeCenter chassis and 28 blade servers, and running up to 960 virtual machines.

On the software side, the Cloudburst system integration software allows customers to press several buttons to complete the application or service configuration, but also to save the underlying server and storage resources by setting the application to "deep freeze" mode. In virtualization, VMware ESXi 3.5 Built-in management programs are stored directly in flash memory on each HS22 blade motherboard. For management software, the x3650 M2 Management Server and HS22 management blades are installed by IBM's Tivilo provising manager v7.1,monitoring V6.2.1 and system Director6.1.1 System management tools, including an active energy manager that can control the energy capping characteristics of IBM servers, to achieve optimal performance based on requirements.

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3. Facing different scale cloudburst structure

Depending on the size of the user, can be divided into large and small three levels, each level of the corresponding HS22 server number is different. Enterprise-class users can be built according to different scale.

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Third, HS22 Blade

The HS22 blade server that is used to build the private cloud architecture mentioned above is highlighted here. In fact, there are upgrades hs22v. BladeCenter HS22 offers a flexible selection of accessories that can handle a wide variety of workloads such as virtualization applications and enterprise applications. IBM BladeCenter HS22V is specifically designed for use in virtualized environments. With a maximum of 18 DIMM slots that support up to 288GB DDR-3 memory, HS22V allows you to support more and larger virtual machines on each blade. When multiple workloads are virtualized on a single blade, durable solid-state drives and hardware RAID-0 and RAID-1 provide exceptional performance. Embedded virtual machine management programs allow you to easily deploy industry-leading Third-party virtualization solutions. Combining HS22V with the virtual fibre networking capabilities of IBM BladeCenter enables flexible, easy, fast, and reliable I/O solutions to help reduce costs and complexity.