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Infrastructure Optimization - Overview and Needs
IT Infrastructure challenges faced by the Business today are
topics of significant analysis and research. Crucial business meetings are conducted
to understand the challenges faced and optimization techniques possible to manage
the same. Time critical decisions are delayed as a result of the involvement
of senior management in handling this issue. Infrastructure optimization is
the solution to handle the challenges in Infrastructure.
What are the challenging areas in infrastructure?
Challenges faced in IT Infrastructure can be isolated as cost
and maintenance challenges. Data centers invest in server sprawl to maintain
uninterrupted service to achieve productivity and performance optimization.
Datacenters are run with x86 servers with a single server managing the installation
and management of relevant applications or product suite. These single server
applications utilize between 10-15% of the server potential. As more applications
are added to enhance the product, numbers of servers are added to support the
applications. Though the utilization of server is only to the tune of 10-15%,
a huge increase of 700% in number of servers has been witnessed in the period
between 1995 to projected 2010 levels.
Increase in the number of servers has resulted in increase in power consumption
and cooling system upgradation to maintain the servers under optimum temperature.
Data center space acquired to accommodate a defined number of servers is faced
with dilemma of accommodating more number of servers. Construction of new data
centers to accommodate the new servers is a costly proposition with the real
estate cost spiraling and cost per sq ft significantly higher than the initial
real estate cost.
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Can the challenges faced by Data centers be resolved by reducing
the server sprawl?
Data centers serve as the backbone of industries and reducing
server sprawl to handle the challenging issues is not a solution. Reduction
of server sprawl involves activities of configuration of server clusters for
disaster recovery, performance tuning and reconfiguring physical servers with
new applications, and migration of data and applications from one server to
another.
Activities associated with reduction of server sprawl are time consuming requiring
knowledgeable skilled resources combined with high cost. Typical data center
have servers and support systems from multiple hardware vendors. These servers
have models and configuration suiting the applications running on them from
time to time, running on different operating systems for performance and stability.
Reduction of server sprawl may give raise to compatibility issues in hardware,
operating system installation and portability of supporting applications as
the application may be running on a server of different configuration with different
operating system.
Data center is a combination of hardware and software. Administrators are skilled
resources with utmost efficient professional efficiency employed for regular
maintenance of hardware and software. Every 20 to 30 servers require an administrator
resulting in locking up of skilled IT talent. Process improvements in server
management can relieve these efficient IT resources for other in-demand IT areas.
Leading analyst firm confirms the ratio of hardware expenditure to management
related costs as 1 to 8. In a nutshell, every dollar expenditure on the server
incurs 8$ expenditure towards management costs. This highlights the flexibility
and manageability deficiencies of current infrastructure.
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What would be right approach to handle infrastructure
challenges?
DSI Virtualization Service approaches the solution to the problem
through infrastructure optimization, an all inclusive concept for issues relating
to server sprawl and maintenance management. Infrastructure optimization is
further subdivided into server consolidation and server containment for better
approach. By deploying server consolidation infrastructure maintenance can be
simplified by reduction of server sprawl.
We saw explanations and reasons to prove that reducing server sprawl is not
a solution to infrastructure challenge. How is server consolidation dealing
with reduction of server sprawl providing a solution to infrastructure challenges?
Infrastructure consolidation deals with reducing the number of physical servers
and transforming the physical servers as virtual machines. A physical server
can host a virtual machine server host. Virtual machine server hosts can have
many virtual machines or servers in them thereby reducing the number of servers
but retaining the services rendered by the number of servers through virtual
machines. Consolidation is a process of combining multiple entities to reflect
as a single entity. So consolidation is effective as the number of virtual machines
per virtual machine host increases - a three server consolidation reduces physical
servers by three but a ten server consolidation reduces the data center density
by ten servers.
Consolidation provides restructuring of existing data center to ensures cost
effectiveness in the current scenario. As organization grows, demand for additions
to applications and subsequent server growth to support the same is inevitable.
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Is consolidation a solution in futuristic growth?
Consolidation deals with the existing infrastructure and the challenges posed
by the data centers in maintaining them. Containment involves the futuristic
growth of the data center and the challenges fuelled by growth in hardware.
Containment is a process of restricting server growth by deploying virtualization
of servers wherever applicable. If a virtual host server hosts 8 virtual machines,
it implies placement of 8 dedicated physical servers into one physical server.
Pace of growth is now reduced to 1 physical server in lieu of 8 physical servers
thereby reducing demand in infrastructure and maintenance. Containment controlling
the growth of physical infrastructure is now present.
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What are the advantages of Infrastructure Optimization
through virtualization?
DSI Virtualization Service relies on virtualization lowering
total cost of investment towards ownership of servers. DSI Virtualization maximizes
the return on Investment from the existing hardware. Concept of bundling virtual
servers into one physical server results in operational efficiency.
DSI Virtualization Service increases server utilization from 10%-15% to 60%-80%
by increasing multiple application hosting on a single physical server running
multiple virtual machines through consolidation and containment. Deployment
of DSI Virtualization Service reduces management of number of physical hardware
with flexibility to concentrate on effective services management. Automation
and IT flexibility is another key area of virtualization performance. Overall
productivity of infrastructure is improved by improved capacity management
DSI Infrastructure Optimization results in productivity increase and reduction
of capital costs by 40%, scalability for future growth, and flexibility in supporting
automation and mission critical applications and cost optimization on real estate
and infrastructure management expenditures.
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