IDC Application service support platform based on cloud computing in middle-chuang middleware

[Guide] A large number of small and medium-sized IDC service providers springing up, not only to the entire IDC industry has brought impact, but also in the cost, technology, business innovation to the IDC service providers brought new challenges.

Introduction/Background

In the era of economic globalization, information services are growing exponentially, telecom operators, service providers (ISP) on the demand for IDC more and more high, and because of its broad prospects for the industry, a large number of small and medium-sized IDC service providers springing up, not only to the entire IDC industry has brought impact, but also in the cost, technology, Business innovation has brought new challenges to IDC service providers.

L High cost and high energy consumption.

IDC is a low profit margin, high cost, high-energy industry, especially in the energy consumption, in the current implementation of sustainable development and energy conservation and environmental protection of the economic background, how to reduce the cost of IDC enterprises is a general concern of the industry. At present, adopting virtualization technology is one of the main ways to reduce the cost of IDC service, especially the cost of energy consumption.

L Quality of service affects customer satisfaction.

In recent years, due to the influx of a large number of service providers to the IDC market with a great deal of confusion, coupled with the lack of unified planning and industry standards, so that the quality of IDC Enterprise Services, consumers are gradually losing to IDC satisfaction and confidence. According to the investigation by Sadie consultant, the users who felt general and dissatisfied with the IDC service accounted for nearly 50%, while in the unsatisfactory reason survey, the frequent downtime, poor security and bad service level accounted for 70%. At present, many IDC service providers are working with software developers, solution providers and so on to apply the current new technology and new products to IDC Data Center, which has a good effect.

• Unified regulatory difficulties and high management costs.

As we all know, data centers are made up of thousands of servers, switches, routers and other physical devices, as well as more virtual devices, and a huge amount of information and services, how to manage these resources, how to deal with hardware expansion, reduce the complexity of virtualization technology applications, and then reduce management costs, is a problem that many IDC service providers have headaches. And these problems can not be solved without a good management platform. A good management platform can help IDC manage and control infrastructure effectively, and make full use of and manage business information, and achieve management optimization from strategy, application and operation.

L network security hidden trouble.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet, the security problem presents more and more serious threat, the large-scale attack traffic directly reduces the survival of the IDC service, the rubbish flow is crowding out a large amount of network bandwidth, meanwhile the rapid spread of virus and the access of illegal users lead to the loss and destruction of user resources The security issues facing IDC are becoming more complex and diverse.

L Peer competition is fierce, low user viscosity.

In the 21st century, China's IDC industry has maintained a high growth rate of more than 20% each year, now China has thousands of IDC service providers, the industry's internal competition has reached a white-hot. The user can choose more objects, and the migration cost is not high, so the user viscosity (loyalty) is very low. In this context, some IDC service providers can not provide high reliability, high security services, will eventually be eliminated in the industry competition.

In the face of these challenges, most IDC service providers use virtualization technology to reduce hardware procurement costs and improve energy efficiency gains, but with the attendant on the issue of the management of virtual devices, Application Server virtualization support, and with the advent of comprehensive cloud computing, The transformation of IDC's own service mode, how to use the technology and business innovation brought by cloud computing, to develop more value-added service products based on cloud computing is the focus of the intense competition of IDC market.

Programme value

Using Inforsuite cloud Computing Application Server to build IDC application Service support platform, you can realize:

1 to the physical equipment, virtual equipment, and application server unified supervision, reduce the complexity of management, reduce management costs;

2 Inforsuite Cloud Computing Application Server is the first domestic application server to support cloud computing application server, so that users of cloud resources monitoring granularity to the application server level, and achieve a high reliability and flexible computing, such as cloud characteristics;

3 Convenient deployment and customization for the application tailored solutions.

4 The use of Inforsuite cloud computing application Server in the development, the operation of a powerful variety of services (reports, workflows, etc.), as well as the support of cloud computing technology, IDC service providers can develop more value-added services based on cloud computing;

5 inforsuite Application Server use Inforguard series of products to provide a unified security management capabilities, the application services can be assessed in advance, in the case of defense, ex post recovery and other stages of management and control, the various threats to three-dimensional protection, with good security protection effect.

Solution

1. With the rapid development of IDC Enterprise Virtualization, the complexity of IT system management increases correspondingly, IDC enterprises begin to pay more attention to the best scheme of unified management of virtual machine and physical environment. Users want their application services to have a cloud of characteristics, but also hope that the application services in a rapid deployment, high reliability operation of the service support platform to work. In this context, the application server as an application environment to support cloud computing technology is very important.

2. The Inforsuite cloud Computing application Server is implemented based on cloud computing technology, providing cloud computing capabilities and high reliability for the applications deployed. Using the Inforsuite cloud Computing application Server to build the IDC Application Service support platform, we can set up the application service from three aspects of deployment, management and operation respectively:

1 The operating environment is flexible and customizable and rapid deployment.

Inforsuite Cloud Computing Application Server provides IDC administrators with the tools to make deployment templates, and can easily customize the operating environment of the application according to user requirements, after the template is finished, imported into shared storage, it can be deployed as an application solution (Solution) at any time. After the template is deployed, it becomes a inforsuite cloud node that runs within the Inforsuite cloud resource pool.

2 Powerful unified supervision.

Through the Inforsuite cloud Computing Application Server provides Inforsuite Cloud Computing management Center to support the IDC administrator to the cloud resource pool for unified monitoring and management. The management center supervises mainly to the physical host, to the Nforsuite cloud node, the cloud application solution, the application server, the deployment template, the system constant configuration and so on the function management.

3 High reliability and flexible calculation guarantee operation safety and efficiency.

To ensure the high reliability of cloud nodes, the system supports the automatic migration of cloud nodes, the export of backup and the real-time monitoring of performance according to the performance data of real-time captured physical host. In order to shield the influence of the physical host fault to the application service, the system supports the use of high reliability strategy, calculates the "residual processing ability" of the physical host, and selects the physical host with the strongest "residual processing ability", and launches the cloud node on it. Through the flexible computing configuration scheme, we can increase the number of cloud nodes in the solution in time according to the application load size, reduce the amount of resources that the application can control, reduce the consumption, save the cost, and provide the high performance service for the users.

3. The Service support platform can improve the manageability of IDC infrastructure resources, reduce operational costs and management costs, improve customer satisfaction and service quality, and provide a rich, on-demand, Pay-as-you-go service model.

4. Overall technical framework

Inforsuite Cloud Computing Application Server technology architecture

As shown in the above illustration, the Inforsuite cloud computing application Server builds the cloud Computing application service support platform through the following two parts:

1 Inforsuite Cloud Platform Management Server

It is a physical server running Inforsuite Cloud Computing application server, mainly used to supervise inforsuite cloud resource pool, Inforsuite cloud computing application server mainly consists of cloud computing Management Center and cloud Service module. The Cloud Management Center provides a cloud management tool and a command-line tool, provide graphical interface and command window respectively to support managers to monitor and manage objects in the cloud resource pool; Cloud Service module executes the management operation of cloud resource pool, it mainly has real-time monitoring of performance data, execution of high reliability, implementation of disaster tolerance mechanism, The execution of flexible computations.

2 Inforsuite Cloud resource pool and shared storage server

The cloud resource pool uses the current mainstream virtualization technology (Vmware, Xen, etc.) to virtual the physical host into multiple virtual machines, each virtual machine can be deployed into a inforsuite cloud node, the cloud node by the operating system, inforsuite as, application composition, is the main component of cloud resource pool. According to customer demand, multiple Inforsuite cloud nodes can form a cloud application solution to solve specific application problems for customers, the most typical cloud application solution is service cluster. The shared storage server provides an image of the Inforsuite cloud node for the cloud resource pool, and it supports storing the cloud resource pool information on shared storage devices such as SAN, NAS, or iSCSI.

Application case

2010 China Telecom launched the "Nebula Program" to explore technology and operation model for future cloud computing construction and development lay the foundation. Nanchang is one of the pilot cities, Jiangxi Telecom as the implementation unit to undertake the construction work. The core Shishou middleware Inforsuite is used as the foundation support platform in the project construction.

Based on Inforsuite, this project builds a new generation IT architecture composed of infrastructure platform, middleware support platform, value-added service platform, operation and maintenance management platform and User Service platform, which saves operation cost, reduces maintenance workload and difficulty, and improves reliability and security for telecom IDC business. Achieved 10 times times the utilization of resources, produced a very good economic and social benefits.

Customer evaluation said "Inforsuite is an advanced, high security cloud computing products, can effectively improve the utilization of it facilities, reduce energy consumption, achieve green, high security data Center ..."