How to face the Spring Festival operation and maintenance pressure cloud technology to relieve the pressure

What is the most shortage of small and medium-sized enterprises? Some say talent, some say money. But the reality is that the largest number of small and medium-sized enterprises in China are short of money and lack of manpower. Faced with the development of enterprises have to put into IT systems but not very strong financial backing, not fully equipped with the IT operation of the team, so can not endlessly expand the hardware environment, can not be exhaustive on the line all the needs of the IT system how to do? Server virtualization technology may help organizations solve such problems.

After more than 10 years of evolution, virtualization technology can gradually improve the original storage and input/output bottleneck of virtualization technology with the development of business, but the advantages of virtualization technology are real and within reach. In a small and medium-sized enterprises should pay attention to the full use of magnifying their own advantages, so that the advantages to maximize the competitiveness of enterprises. Perhaps in the information of the starting line, your business has been due to these technical advantages of the opportunity, perhaps your business because of the realization of virtualization and greatly reduce it operational costs and pressure.

1. Improving disaster recovery to reduce human operational costs

Why the disaster recovery in the first place, the answer is very simple today's social man-made, natural disasters more frequent, and the harm caused by more and more serious. From a lot of security incidents, stress to service interruption events can see how much labor and time. The core of disaster recovery is the ability to restore a system to its normal state of operation after a disaster occurs. As you can imagine, backing up a fully virtualized infrastructure by copying virtual machine file images is far easier than trying to do the same backup operations on disparate hardware servers.

In addition, if you use virtualization technology, you can host the entire infrastructure with just a small portion of the original hardware device. This means that small and medium sized SMEs have the ability to buy a small number of servers and place them in another place. In the event of a disaster, if necessary, you can then relocate these servers and install the latest virtual machines into operation, which is shorter than the turnaround time offered by most it vendors.

2. Improve server efficiency and reduce server operational costs

Compared with the traditional technology, the server virtualization technology can make full use of processor cycle and memory, improve the pue of the equipment and save the energy consumption and silence cost of small and medium-sized enterprises greatly. There is no doubt about that. At the same time, as a large number of increasingly aging servers are discarded, only a few servers are purchased to replace them. "The server virtualization technology is that as many virtual machines as possible are plugged into the physical server mainframe," said the operational engineer. "This statement is too straightforward but it illustrates the true drop of virtualization technology. In fact, the host only needs a few physical servers, and the virtual machine according to the actual needs of the planning through the virtual machine management software. Managed by the traditional technology of several servers, into the management of a host of virtual machine management platform.

Microsoft's Hyper-V virtual machines can easily manage virtual machines and monitor virtual performance through the management services in the System Center Management suite.

▲hyper-v Virtual Machine Management

Monitor virtual machines in ▲system Center Management Suite

As you get more comfortable with virtual machines, you can take a more streamlined approach to virtual machines and treat them as physical devices. To do this, you can create virtual machines based on the logical services provided by virtual machines, rather than just using virtual servers to mirror physical servers.

3. Enhance business continuity and reduce the chance of business interruption

IT operations is often complained that because of some reason for the technical reasons for the business system terminal or operation is not available, this is a disaster caused by the interruption of the difference is very large, and the impact of the user experience is also very large. The purpose of IT operations is to do not interfere with or try not to interfere with the normal operation of the business. Real-time migrations can be convenient for server maintenance or hardware upgrades, and you don't need to schedule any maintenance downtime. The virtual machines that can also be loaded in Microsoft's System Center Management Suite can also be migrated to powerful servers to achieve workload balancing and more rationally spread to a set of available physical servers. An extension of this concept would be to automate the load balancing tasks described above, or even migrate virtual machines to a smaller number of physical hosts during off-peak periods, reducing downtime due to physical devices, program maintenance, and so on.

Overall, despite the benefits of server virtualization technology, virtualization does not magically allow you to dispense with the administrative overhead that is typically required to manage physical servers. Reducing operational costs and human investment is the original purpose of using virtualization technology, but given the ease with which virtual machines can be created, the challenge of monitoring network traffic between virtual machines and acknowledging performance bottlenecks is exacerbated by the inherent challenges of virtual machine fragmentation. Virtualization management is more and more difficult, so we can not with the implementation of server virtualization technology, the original intention of the need for reasonable planning and demand analysis, scientific calculation of how many virtual machine business system needs to complete the work, under the guidance of reasonable planning to complete the realization of virtualization. Using cloud computing is no longer an empty concept, perhaps your business does not need all the advanced technology, only need a part of it can help enterprises in the IT construction and operation of the leading, so that it operation of the cost of the dimension down why not it?