【 Weak current College 】 data center construction survey and analysis

We know that the "next generation data center," this concept started in 2004, the then United States the NetworkWorld "newspaper launched such a concept. After a few years, the annual United States the NetworkWorld "newspaper has 6 issues of special reports, for next generation data center construction-related products, technologies, and user application for detailed reports.
Slipped unprepared when light enters after 2007, the "next generation data center" in the development and application of the domestic situation? user application encountered what? user for products and technology is how to evaluate the? with such questions, we are part of the domestic industry and users visit and investigate, in the hope that through this activity, to share their experiences and perspectives.
Building a stable and secure infrastructure remains key
Through our survey statistics, finance, telecommunications and Government sectors are data center construction development faster, it also followed a few years ago, industry data and the construction of large centralized. Through data collection, banking, telecommunications and other industries have achieved business of centralized management, to provide within the scope of the country the same level of business services, increase customer satisfaction. At the same time, the business data of centralized storage and management, as a high level of security for data protection has created the conditions for business continuity to a new height.
From our survey, is currently building a secure IT infrastructure framework remains the Data Center Manager and CIO priority topics of interest. Where security is not a firewall, IPS/IDS, intrusion detection and anti-virus and other security measures, in practice, the information system reliability, stability and availability, and hardware and software systems, is the CIO's focus.
To ensure system stability, further reduce the cost and maintenance of the system, the less IT operational expenditure, this is a Data Center Manager and CIO concerns minor topic. Because as the data set, for server and storage system can handle higher requirements, and the increase in the number of the device, as well as the growth of the system energy consumption, data center operations brought tremendous cost pressure, thus reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) has become the Manager of the concern.
In addition, how to deploy applications more quickly, and provides support for business systems that enhance industry/enterprise competitiveness, is the data center managers and CIOs more concerned about the topic. In the interview, there are users pointed out that the building information system was not an end in itself, with the aim of providing support to the business. In today's environment, a separate application for each business application system mode, apparently has not able to meet the business needs of rapid development, so the information system of adaptive capacity, as well as the automation level, is imminent.
Understand through our survey, IT outsourcing and how to reduce the quantity of land for the operating system and other industry discussions more topics, the current application in the actual proportion also is not very high, in a relatively minor part of the
According to our survey analysis, finance, telecommunications, Government, education and the media industry's future will have more procurement requirements, high-performance servers, as well as low-power, high density of multi-core and blade servers will become the procurement of hot spots. In addition, virtualization, SOA, as well as the security product equipment will also be gradually spread and use. In contrast, the media industry, manufacturing, and distribution industry, and its data center construction will gradually unfold, but the level and size, are unable to finance first compared to the industry.
Next generation data center HotSpot technology criticism
From industry/enterprise users feedback, next generation data center, which is Automation, integration and management, virtualization, security, and energy management, and other new technology, it is the solution to the current data center user key. This also got IBM, HP, SUN, DELL, and other domestic and foreign products supplier. It is understood that DELL has recently established a dedicated business sector — data center solutions, responsible for global data center business expansion and development. SUN company last year announced the Blackbox will network infrastructure, servers, computing, storage, UPS power backups, and relates to data center room construction related content all integrated into a similar container's black box, give the user a complete data center solutions. To the user, to build data centers do not have to take into account from the "brick and cement", all work just one module connection, offers flexibility and ease of movement. IBM, HP is announcing the next-generation data center solutions, they called it "the Green data center" or "next generation data center," and formed a specialized departments provide professional service. At the same time, Lenovo, wave and Leopard also introduces the appropriate solution, such as Lenovo's "numerical laboratory", wave and Leopard is released for data centres are a new generation of Blade Server NX4120 and high-density server and storage servers. In short, data center solutions will become the focus of this year's marketing.
And these solutions correspond to multi-core, blades, virtualization, hyper-density servers, high-performance computing, open source, fibre channel, InfiniBand, and other key new technology into the market, and the industry have been talking about the topic. So, industry/business users on these technologies is how to evaluate the application of its focus where? for this purpose, we will be part of the industry speech discourse, for some understanding.
Energy consumption
Energyproblems in distributed computing environment, its contradiction is not prominent. But as the next-generation data center operational developments, particularly the prevalence of centralized computing mode, the problem of energy consumption is becoming increasingly prominent.
Turning to the expectations of future data center, Xinhua life insurance company information technology division of the week, the army said: "the future of data center uses less artificial unattended and intervention of the computing environment, this can be more productive and more secure, reliable data. Especially in the data set, the risks can also be set, so you want to enhance IT service management. "He said, reduce manual unattended and staff for data center equipment of intervention, for energy consumption also have great contribution. It is understood that, at present IT equipment power consumption, only the entire data center energy consumption by 30% in energy consumption of refrigerating equipment to account for 50% to 60%, other like lighting accounts for 10%. Reduce manual unattended and interventions to reduce the consumption of refrigeration, therefore it is also very important.
State data center engineers Zou Woo interview, said that from the data center operation/maintenance point of view, their power consumption and heat dissipation of the problem is not prominent. In accordance with the data center of the original design, the room is equipped with 2-channel 80 kVA's line, from the total amount of electricity that can meet the demand. Zou Yu said that energy consumption currently does not have a uniform yardstick, the same system of different configurations, their power consumption will be different, it is difficult to make energy consumption as a data center equipment procurement measure indicators. It is understood that the current state data center is mainly rely on air conditioning to adjust the room environment result in the unit of deployment, note a certain space.
The same problem in Travelsky data center is very different, according to the data center managers running Mr. Shen, Deputy General Manager, along with the increased power consumption, they have to pass the relevant government departments to coordinate the power supply. Because the engine room in 1999, its design also earlier some years, the rapid development of computer and scale. For some high-performance computing, you can use water cooling Cabinet to solve the problem of the micro-environment heat, other host system using air cooling way, in addition, you need to increase the room air conditioner to solve thermal problems, but it also involves a power supply. It is understood that, at present, the data center has the mainframe system with 8 sets of various brands of Unix and Windows servers approximately 400 sets, large numbers of microcomputer and terminal; a storage area, a large machine system for SAN (storage area network) networks, servers, various open systems SAN network, plus all kinds of large tape library.
These devices support the core of all airline tickets and airport of departure, the freight business, while shouldering the international leading global distribution system (GDS) interconnection to query and sales abroad of more than 300 Airlines products. According to the forecast, future of Shen-strong data center cooling and power consumption issues will become more prominent, because their business while not is the index level of growth, but growth will not be linear.
Virtualization
Virtualization is the next generation data center is a hot topic of discussion, initially, virtualization is only a good way of physical servers, and therefore reduce power requirements and heat output. However, due to the ease of deploying virtual machines, enterprises may find in reducing the number of physical devices at the same time, the need to manage the number of virtual system is exploding.
For virtualization, Travelsky data center operation Department open platform Manager Hu gang said that virtualization consolidation is their concern about the issue. Consolidation can improve system management, reduce the system cost. But virtualization consolidates, also had a problem how to consolidate, integrate with any method. Hu has just said, for key business, such as 8400、, outward, freight, etc., they would prefer the stability, reliability and availability of better Unix server system, and in some non-critical areas of the business, they also used the IA servers based on VMware's virtualization solution.
According to the State described Zou Yu for virtualization and more attention, but they think that one of the integration of issues, from the current situation, in order to achieve the ideal of a high level of integration is still very difficult. But this does not constitute an obstacle to their concerns. Galaxy securities company General Manager Wang Heng has expressed similar ideas, he said, for virtualization they also concern, because of virtualization has a certain complexity, they also have no application in this regard.
Blade Server
Blade servers are user talk about most of the other hot topics. Zhou Yu said: in 2006, they did not use blades, but this year they have begun to use Blade Server, which is very important because with the business, data center room has become very crowded, and the blade server integration, and ease the pressure of the space. In addition the extensibility is better, deploy and manage highly convenient, this is their use of blade servers.
It is understood that the deployment of the cable is data center users common headache. A lot of room for cable is loose in Earth, neither easy to find, easy to play that affect system stability. In addition, because of the rapid development of business, you need to make adjustments to the system, and the cable always bundle of dismantling, demolition of the Bale, often is, very messy. For this, not too good management practices.
Through the use of blade servers can significantly reduce the wiring complexity, this has been welcomed by the users.
Storage
Current storage topic is also increasing. On this, the army said that many years ago, store concept is like a hard drive. But as technology continues to progress, and now we are on the storage requirements are higher. Now we consider storage must have more security, reliability, and scalability. In use, we request that the storage is maintainable and manageable and are based on certain policy has a good operation.
The subject of the backup, the week is most concerned about the safety of the army. In the end he chose Netcom and Telecom for dual link backup, when there are special circumstances arise forNormal transport mutualism. In line with the principle doesn't waste of resources, in a normal working environment, one for the production of transmission, such as business critical, another is used for daily use of mail and other business.
For data backup, the insurance industry has its own point of view. In the storage market to promote virtualization, unified storage technology, they still use traditional tape backup. Week of the army, with a tape backup is the most simple and direct way. In the find or incremental backup is also more convenient. In the store, we only need to move data into production/business data and audio data. Production/business data we use tape backup, and the audio and video data we use CD, this will be sufficient to meet our daily needs.
State data center for data storage also attaches great importance, according to reports the amount of data currently they also is not very large, only about 1 ~ 3TB of scale, but has established a variety of SAN and NAS storage systems, data center is scheduled to arrangements for the operation of data recovery. User represents, as business development, the increasing volumes of data, storage will become increasingly important. For critical business applications, you must do a data backup and disaster recovery, otherwise it will be disastrous. For storage of various new technologies: VTL, CDP, de-duplication, e-discovery, storage, life cycle management, these technologies will also be more and more attention to some of the technology while temporarily uses does not, however, from the construction of new generation data center, storage technology development is very important.
In short, it should be noted that the construction of new generation data center is not a simple issue, the technology involved is very complex. Here, we can put all the techniques for analysis. But through these simple hot topics of analysis, we clearly recognize that internal data center construction level has been raised, the domestic industry/enterprise users already from the initial spectators became the next-generation data center practice, although uneven, but the next-generation data center building orientation and objectives has been recognized and valued, we expect that the next-generation data center market becomes more mature.