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IJRE | Vol. 03 No.

05 | May 2016 40

Converged Infrastructure Management of Next Generation Data Center


Author(s): 1Ananth Prabhu M, 2Srikanth Bhat K
2
Asst. Prof, 1Department of ISE, NMAM Institute of Technology
Nitte, Karnataka, India
There are few points which need to be addressed to delimit
Abstract—The evolution of Data center has grown the way of management of IT Infrastructure is achieved.
drastically over the years. The amount of data generated
for every second today, is million times greater than a
decade ago. Hence the performance of data center plays
a vital role in operations of an organisation. An
Integrated model of resources to form a Converged
Infrastructure and ease the way of management of Next
generation Data Center.

Keywords—Converged Infrastructure, Data Center,


REST API

Introduction
Server virtualization and migration tools create high-
volume traffic flows that affect administrator operations.
Virtual networks blur conventional boundaries between
network and server communication and administration.
Going for more virtualized, dynamic application Figure 1: Conceptual summary of inefficiencies of
environments and new cloud-based delivery models drives a Conventional Tools
new set of technology requirements across servers, storage,
and networking domains. As a result, network architects, Integration across resources
designers, and all administrators and stakeholders should A single platform is designed with bottom up approach
understand how Virtual Connect integrates into their server for Converged Infrastructure Management of Next
networks and how data traffic flows from logical servers, Generation Data Center. Integrated platform will increase
through the Virtual Connect domain, and out to external productivity of every resource in the team across the server,
networks. Which will form a Virtual Network among the storage and networking. By streamlining processes, utilising
components. the selective practices and creating a new way to work. It is
To eliminate infrastructure complexity, the new also necessary to have an integration across various
technology has to automate the operation and delivery of IT traditional management tools. The Integrated tool manages
services. In turn which will transform daily management and all the resources through their lifecycle as an Individual
monitoring of storage, server and network resources in Appliance. It will collapse all the tools of Infrastructure
virtual and physical environment. The new technology management into a single resource-oriented architecture that
improves IT administrator efficiency by converging should provide direct access to all physical and logical
management of server, storage and networking resources. It resources. The former one will comprise of server profile,
speeds up IT service roll-outs and helps to prevent error server profile template, storage volumes, storage templates
actively and induced downtime by a template-based, and many more components. The latter one, Physical
software-defined approach to management of the Data resources include the actual physical hardware as Server
center. It will also save time by acting as an automation hub Hardware Blades, Rack Servers, Networking Interconnects,
that performs configuration and management tasks of and compute enclosures. The pool of resources will
infrastructure when other applications have requests and normally look like Figure 2.
scheduled operations. Restful API can also offer a uniform way of
interacting with the resources. The integrated resource
Overcoming limitations of legacy management tools model will remove the need to enter and maintain the same
The conventional IT Operations management was stuck configuration data redundantly. This can achieve
in an old paradigm with separate management tools for encapsulation and abstraction for many underlying
servers, storage, networking and facilities. Most cases, tools management tools behind the integrated resource pool. This
had different foundation services with different GUIs and will lead to a simple, speed and agile solution to provision,
different management requirements. Each tool had different monitor, and maintain your Converged Infrastructure. The
authentication which resulted in multiple authentication Integrated resource model is critical for diagnosing
requirements for bunch of tools. Figure 1 summarises the problems or determining the risk of making a change by
tools of few Hence it was pretty much necessary to establish seeing affected resources and how they will be
a platform that address both organizational and technical interconnected before making the change.
issues. In addition, it is noticed that IT is making a
fundamental shift that is being driven by cloud,
virtualization and also software-defined technologies. An
emerging paradigm, IT organisations need a management
platform that should allow them to transition effectively and
allow them to span multiple generations of Infrastructure.

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Figure 4:Resource Model Summary Diagram


conclusion
Figure 2: Integrated Resource Model The discussed design is an architecture that is designed for
Automation and RESTful Communication enablement of Next generation Data Center. It is a solution
Majority of the routine tasks involved in the lifecycle is easy to migrate from the conventional Network
of the Infrastructure are automated for day to day Management approach. Converged Infrastructure also
maintenance. Day to day responsibilities are automated by allows organizations to scale the Infrastructure
simplifying time consuming tasks which will in turn spontaneously and cater the needs of the respective clients
increase the productivity and reduce operational costs. with the flow. The use of integrated resource model with the
Message passing bus is maintained to communicate across RESTful APIs, will be enhancing the productivity by
the resources. A messaging broker is clubbed with the REST reducing the overhead. The approached design will be
API, it will act as interface to listen to the changes in the driving the Next Generation Data Center.
environment. Thus, any change detected will be published
across the Bus for all the listeners. This bus may include
service desk, monitoring tools, configuration management
database. Cooperative resource managers are identified to References
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