IBM Power Cloud Box Cloud computing Platform Solution

2011, if the industry is talking about the most, the most attention to a word, not "cloud" mo. Cloud computing after several years of brewing and development is moving from theory to practice. Cloud computing is rising from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge, not a fad to hype a concept, arguing about the definition of cloud computing, more focused on how to land the cloud.


　　


, a security expert from McAfee, recently released a network survey they had commissioned by Boko and McAfee. The survey was attended by a total of 100 IT professionals, and most of them were security decision makers in large companies with more than 500 people who found that the--it sector is now transforming into virtualization, and that near-average respondents are planning or already deploying private clouds. The survey found that 62% of respondents were planning or starting to upgrade their data centers, and many people did so because they increased the use of virtualization. In addition, 29% of respondents said they were expanding the size of server virtualization, and 32% said they were addressing network bandwidth and traffic problems.


　　


How can you implement fast and efficient operations for a data center when deploying a private cloud? For those technology executives and decision makers, face a multitude of private cloud solutions? What is the difference between them? Let's take a look below.


　　


IBM power Cloud Box Cloud computing platform Solution


　　


Power Cloud Box is a platform solution tailored to the Chinese market that only sells in the Chinese market and does not enter the global market. The point is that there is no need to radically change the datacenter, and there is no need to do much of the underlying architecture, application, and model changes that are more conservative and more stable Mature technology for Chinese users, more attractive and practical significance.


　　


Power Cloud box consists of a system resource pool of high-performance power high performance servers, combined with cloud computing infrastructure management software BAE Director VMControl (and Cloud, through industry-leading POWERVM virtualization technology) Starter), the realization of cloud computing wisdom of service delivery, with unlimited virtualization capabilities, uninterrupted business flexibility, unparalleled green features, efficient automated management capabilities, through the Ibmtsam cloud computing management platform, to provide billing functions, improve service quality management and user-service functions, is a complete set of workload-optimized intelligence systems.


　　


for the core devices in cloud computing, IBM released this year a $800 million trillion-dollar architecture--ex5 server, which was called "IBM's most important release in the last 10 years" by Chanda, the chairman of IBM's Greater China region. As one of the smart system blockbuster solutions, IBMeX5 employs the intelligent new generation Xeon processor 7500, which enables the SYSTEMX server to optimize workloads with a large memory, high storage IOPS, flexible partitioning and modularity, and to help users do more work and simplify management with less effort, Stand the test of cost, safety, extensibility and other latitude.


　　

The
eX5 architecture includes--4 server system X3850X5, dual server system x3690x5, and Blade server BladeCenter HX5. These servers give the Intel X86 architecture, the best balance of performance and energy efficiency, and the IBM "Smart Systems" philosophy.


　　


Cloudstart is a solution for HP to help businesses quickly build their own private cloud, with the original intent of using industrial standard servers (including the x86 servers of other vendors that customers have deployed), storage and networking, and corresponding management software components, Set up a private cloud platform for customers within 30 days.


　　


in terms of infrastructure, Cloudstart supports VMware vsphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms, while the XenServer platform for Citrix is based on customer needs, with VMware and Microsoft's cloud computing solutions being the mainstay ( especially VMware).


　　


HP's highly Scalable (EXSO) series includes a new lightweight, ultra-high-efficiency, modular system architecture that covers the entire data center solution, services, and support, and is designed to save significant costs and resources for businesses that use Web2.0, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.


　　

The core of
HP's highly Scalable (EXSO) series is the HPPROLIANTSL server family based on the Intel Xeon X86 processor. The server family uses a "seamless modular" system architecture. The architecture can replace traditional chassis and rack profiles with extremely lightweight rail and pallet designs. As a result, customers can achieve a sharp reduction in capital, facilities, and transport costs while consuming only a fraction of the data center's space. In addition, its super efficient modular design enables customers to quickly build solutions to meet the requirements of scale scaling.


　　


Dell launched its own research and development of the overall architecture cloud solution, called Virtual Integration System (integrated systems, for short, Vis). Vis is composed of three parts, Dell Vis self-service creator, Dell Vis workload Guide and Dell Vis Advanced Architecture Manager. Vis advanced Architecture Manager is a scalent based management platform for cloud virtualization that integrates with vsphere, Hyper-V, and Xen to complete VMware, WebPart, and virtual machine automation operations such as discovery, configuration, startup, creation, and deletion.

Dell Vis self-service creator is the application portal for virtualized users, and users can automatically create and configure the virtual resources required by themselves within the defined permissions through the Easy-to-use creator portal. The Dell Vis workload guide is the monitoring, detection, analysis, repair, governance, and recycling of virtualized resources, ensuring that virtualized resources are delivered on demand, on a quality basis, and tracking the use of virtualized resources, recycling virtualized resources in a timely manner, and avoiding waste.


　　


Dell's POWEREDGEC series servers are a brand new product line for Dell's standard cloud computing environment, high-density data center design, with key design concepts that comply with Dell's learning from its customers Google, Amazon, The general design Reference model of the cloud Computing data center, including Microsoft Zure.


　　


The PowerEdge C5520 integrates 8 to 12 stand-alone server nodes in a 3U rack, more like a blade server than a traditional rack server in server form, although similar to the previous Supermicro twin architecture or the architecture of a stand-alone four-server module, But from the design concept, but with the two design is completely different, this design concept is believed to refer to many cloud computing high-density data center design.


　　


because it is a high-density data center, the PowerEdge C5520 does not use the Intel Xeon E7 or Xeon 5600 processor, which is oriented to the market for micro-high-density servers, so Intel's newly launched Xeon E3-1200 series is its best companion, The high-density server market currently includes CDN acceleration, Web2.0 applications, Web joins and other front-end access-intensive applications in addition to the cloud computing market.


　　


Shuguang Cloudbox consists of infrastructure (server, storage device, network Exchange), cloud computing operating system, Cloud management software (Cloudview).


　　


is well known for the "cloud computing" technology that dramatically improves the economics of IT infrastructure, software, and services with basic features such as accessibility, scalability, and resilience. The private cloud platform can adjust the computing and storage resources dynamically in order to improve the response ability of the business system according to the change of the resource demand of each business system. For a long time, Shuguang company uphold the low power consumption, high management, high computational capacity, high throughput capacity, high security of the five core elements of building a private cloud system. Its first in the industry to launch in line with the "cloud" era "cloud" Characteristics of the Dawn PHPC (Personal high configured Computer, personal high-performance computer) series of products, to help push the dawn Cloudbox private cloud computing platform to build.


　　


Dawn days wide I950R-G server with Intel Xeon processor, stable operation of Windows, Redhatlinux, SuSE, VMware and other mainstream operating systems, is able to adapt to the core application of a new generation of rack-type server. It has fast processing speed, strong availability, easy management, high reliability, can meet the most demanding workload requirements, thus providing users with more powerful computing power.


　　


Dawning I950r-g server is a high-performance 64bitx86 architecture server that supports up to 8 Intelxeon7500/e7 series processors up to 2TBDDR3 memory expansion to effectively reduce bottlenecks and improve throughput and performance. The specialized high-density design, causes the i950r-g in the large-scale scientific computation and the data processing domain performance to be particularly outstanding, is the enterprise, the government, the Army, the medicine, the research, the education and so on organization's first choice product. At the same time, I950r-g added a number of RAS features, greatly improve the reliability, its stability can be comparable to minicomputer, for the user's core database of stable use escort.


　　

Based on Fujitsu blade servers and storage systems,
EasyCloud is a pre-defined, pre-test validated, and built on the industry-standard virtualization technology, based on Fujitsu's cloud computing resource Management Core component Ror (Resource orchestrator) Standard-configured cloud computing platform to help users achieve rapid deployment of cloud computing environments.


　　


EasyCloud is a product based on Fujitsu's cloud infrastructure solutions and is based on a certain configuration and orientation. As the first cloud infrastructure product, it also employs the core components of cloud Resource management (ROR). ROR supports industry-open standards virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, and manages resource pools through volumes, effectively creating a secure running environment with multiple tenants using cloud technology platform resources. ROR supports mainstream open operating systems such as Windows and Linux.


　　


Fujitsu's intention to build CX1000 is to provide infrastructure that is small, low-power, manageable and scalable (scale-out) on a large scale. CX1000 is the server that Fujitsu has tailored for cloud data centers, large enterprises or high-performance data centers.


　　


Fujitsu CX1000 can be easily extended from dozens of server nodes to thousands of server nodes. It is the 38 x86 industrial standard server nodes encapsulated in the 43U rack, although the density does not look very high, but Zhou Yiping said the density is too high, cooling costs, but the overall cost of the server increased. In cooling, CX1000 uses Fujitsu's innovative shared cooling technology cool-central. This technology replaces hundreds of native server fans with two central fans, and the overall power consumption and associated cooling costs are significantly reduced. The centralized cooling system makes it possible for the cabinet to save space to "back-to-back" arrangement. As a result, CX1000 can save up to 40% of the data center space compared to the traditional rack-and-server level expansion facility.


　　


with cloud computing, in particular, the popularity of private clouds accelerated, the major manufacturers of these solutions have a common feature, are assembled hardware, software and services in one of the overall solution, such a "private cloud package" can help enterprise users to achieve "one-stop" rapid building cloud computing architecture, Even the use of private cloud training is packaged within the solution, which can reduce the difficulty of enterprise users deploying cloud computing, thereby facilitating cloud computing into the enterprise.