Trellis Architecture Analysis: Cloud ERA data center management tool

As a data center Operation Manager, you will often encounter such confusion.

Because it is difficult to accurately predict the needs of the business for it, we can not step planning and building a good data center. Within the data center, the IT infrastructure and physical infrastructure are still running on different tracks, and device-type cutting management makes it difficult for users to consider problems from a holistic business perspective. Because the business is also to be considered uninterrupted, resulting in new modules can not be added, the old module is not back down.

To solve these problems, you must help users build a modular infrastructure that covers both the IT and physical infrastructure of the integrated management platform. As the industry's leading data center physical infrastructure products and solutions provider, Emerson Network energy is how to look at these challenges, the upcoming trellis platform is how to help users manage the increasingly complex dynamic infrastructure?

In response to the above problems, in the recently held "2012 China Data Center Industry Development Conference", Emerson Network Energy Data Center Solution Senior architect Tishoven received C114 China Communications Network interview.

Figure is Emerson Network Energy Data Center Solution Senior architect Tishoven

It triggers change

In the data center work model, the IT infrastructure hosts all the applications of the user, while the physical infrastructure serves the IT infrastructure. "In the view of the user, everything is for the business, not because it restricts the business, not because of the infrastructure to limit it." ”

The first is the wide application of virtualization technology, it greatly improved the use of IT equipment efficiency, improve the computer room IT environment use density, and high density also gave birth to the computer room environment hot spots, the infrastructure posed a challenge. At the same time, the advent and migration of virtual machines makes it loads more dynamic and flexible, and the infrastructure must be able to provide the flexibility it needs to migrate.

"The biggest feature of cloud computing is the supply on demand, the requirements of the business for it will certainly be transferred to the data center infrastructure, which requires that the infrastructure we provide must have the capacity to be flexible, which is one of the reasons for the modular design and integration philosophy of the past few years. "Tishoven said.

"For Emerson, we are prepared to make a big fuss over the management of the cloud data center infrastructure in addition to supporting high-density, dynamically loaded products." This is not only the trend of industrial technology development, but also the most urgent needs of users. So, after two years of silence, we launched the Trellis platform, which helps users integrate real-time management of IT infrastructure and physical infrastructure, allowing users to pay for the future through an open and scalable architecture. ”

Trellis Schema Resolution

First, let's take a look at the overall architecture of trellis. It consists of a highly scalable three-layer interface, at the bottom of the data center are all the key devices on the sensor, they follow a certain strategy for the real-time monitoring and collection of key data; to the top is the cloth on the rack UMG,UMG is also the most important part of the trellis system, Its main function is to complete the loading and partial processing of data information, including from it equipment (such as virtual machine migration) and physical infrastructure, and then to the core control platform to complete the storage and processing of massive data.

This may seem to the reader to be similar to the traditional smart PDU, but the difference is huge. Trellis enables comprehensive monitoring of the data center IT infrastructure and the ability to coordinate physical infrastructure to help users achieve dynamic matching. "What we normally call data center monitoring requires not only monitoring but also integrated, seamless management." "Not all the data summarized after the processing, UMG on the one hand is the completion of the original data load, on the other hand is to identify abnormal information, the exception information sent to the central control platform. "It's a big difference from the monitoring system," he said. ”

"We have a reason to place the most critical UMG in the trellis system on the rack because the rack is a natural gathering point that carries the key IT infrastructure and is the best point of information hosting, which we call ' smart racks '." We will monitor the center of gravity from a single operating state of peripheral equipment to the rack, through the monitoring of IT equipment to determine the requirements of ancillary equipment changes. "Of course, UMG can also be deployed on a Tishoven, which reduces initial investment if it is not very high in the engine room," he explained. ”

"Both UMG and trellis, we are all based on the concept of SOA, with very strong scalability, it can identify new systems and modules." Now the industry has a lot of data center monitoring and management systems, because their software architecture is relatively fixed, it is difficult to meet the future staggering data requirements. The trellis uses a more robust extensible enterprise service bus and the best software architecture to meet the data processing requirements for the next 5-10 years. "When it comes to the scalability of trellis, Tishoven is more cautious.

Of course, for the real-time monitoring and analysis of massive dynamic data, trellis adopts Oracle Database solution, which brings the ultimate performance and raises the threshold. "Initial deployment costs will be higher, but this is acceptable to high-end users," he said. The overall lifecycle TCO of the data center that Trellis brings to the user will be much larger than the deployment cost. ”

This should be an innovative subversive architecture, and it's hard to take a supplemental approach to building such a complex system. "Emerson Network Energy can provide users with supporting professional service system, we will follow this system to your enterprise, understand the existing operation and maintenance of the structure and situation, listen to the future of long-term planning, so that trellis can landing, really used up." We are ready. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)