How server vendors prepare for cloud computing

Cloud computing is an irreversible trend, and the future development of technology throughout the IT world is closely related to cloud computing. On the server, whether it is hardware or software, the new products can be seen to prepare for cloud computing.

The new Generation 4-way server has a big breakthrough in specs, like a server on an AMD platform, with a processor core of up to 64, while an Intel platform server with up to 2TB of memory capacity. These specifications are quite alarming, especially in a 4U size server, can have such a powerful calculation, but also to make a difference to the 4-way server.

The space of the server chassis is like the metropolis, the square inch gold, the city in order to accommodate more people, the building began to cover, and the server is also so. In the Intel New generation server platform, in order to achieve the 2TB large memory capacity, the memory installation way completely changes. General memory is plugged into the motherboard, but the Intel New Generation 4 platform specifically designed memory-specific modules, these modules are inserted vertically on the motherboard, an entire server can be plugged into 8 modules, and each module can be plugged into 8 memory, so the entire server has 64 memory, if the use of a single 32GB memory, Then the total capacity is 2TB.

Compared to the past memory directly plugged into the motherboard, can only plug in 32, after changing the way the memory installed, the new platform memory capacity of a sudden doubled. A single machine with 2TB of large memory, many computational problems can be solved. For example, after an enterprise expands the use of virtualization, the immediate challenge is performance shortages, while the new platform's bulk memory helps solve some of the problems; in the past, it may be necessary to procure special machine types to solve the problem, such as a product with additional memory extension modules, or a blade server.

According to HP, a new generation of generation 8 servers uses a specially developed architecture that considers automation technologies such as Server lifecycle management, dynamic load adjustment, power automatic monitoring, and active support services.

In this server has more than 900 hardware and software with the automation of the management technology, with more than the previous generation of more than 1 time times the sensor, through the software and hardware automation monitoring, diagnosis and update functions, can achieve the purpose of the server self-management. This is done to avoid human error, but more importantly through server self-management to achieve a high degree of automation, this is useful for the dynamic computing model of cloud services.

4-Way server positioning high-performance, so suitable for some of the higher performance requirements of the application, such as ERP, virtualization, and the new generation of 4-way server specifications explosion, more and more computing density, providing more powerful computing power, for virtualization, the expansion of the use of cloud computing is undoubtedly a boost.

In addition to hardware, Server software is also moving toward cloud computing. The Windows 8 Server version, which Microsoft is about to release this year, is officially named Windows Server 2012, and although the name looks nothing like the current Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 is completely different.

Microsoft has injected Windows Server 2012 with its previous experience in developing Windows Azure cloud services to create a server operating system that is easier to integrate with cloud services. For example, the file system throughout the renovation, the familiar NTFS file system will go into history, by the new refs file system access to the bar. And the reason for that, is the cloud computing resources used in different ways, cloud services as the computing resources are infinite, can be unlimited and flexible access, but the traditional operating system is designed for limited computing resources, rather than dynamic resources; So you have to change the underlying file system, Server native computing resources and cloud services integration to be more smooth.

Microsoft has also revealed some of the new features of Windows Server 2012 that have changed significantly in terms of networking, storage, and virtualization, all of which have a big connection to cloud computing.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)