Designing A Cloud Friendly Data Center Peter Panfil Vice President and General Manager Liebert AC Power Emerson Network Power
Jim Kennedy Director of Data Center Operations and Construction RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
Will You Be Using The Cloud? What do you mean by “the cloud” EXTERNAL / PUBLIC
INTERNAL / PRIVATE
Pay-per-use of 3rd party hosted servers
You offer servers as a service to remote users
Web Servers Hosting Co-Location
Company E-Mail Databases ERP Applications
Hotmail: you don’t have hotmail software on your PC ERP Payroll App: multiple users can access a single remote database Video Server: video streaming from a hosted site You will be using the cloud; in your own data center or with a service provider. 2 2
Does Cloud Change the Infrastructure Requirements of the Data Center? CLOUD PROVIDERS
Uptime is likely more critical Lost revenue for downtime
CLOUD USERS
IT Applications are critical and will drive customer loyalty
Redundancy for the entire eco-system Power and Cooling redundancy Server redundancy (virtualization) Even site redundancy may be necessary The Computing must come from somewhere. If it’s not available, someone is losing money. 3 3
What Can Be Done About Volatility in Workload Demand Opportunity for Efficiencies Variable Capacity Infrastructure
100
Server Utilization in Virtualized Environment
0 0
12
24h
Source: McKinsey & Company “Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency,� 2008
Requires flexibility of cooling & power infrastructure IT needs to understand and manage their loads Balance different customer loads (globally) where possible DC Infrastructure and IT Operations need to work together to solve a complex problem. 4 4
Best Practices for Monitoring & Asset Management EFFICIENCY & AVAILABILITY
INVENTORY & ACCESS
Optimized Power & Cooling Infrastructure Saving $$$’s
What & Where Capacity Planning Security Control
Best Practices Customer transparency of data center operations Minimize hot spots & balance loads Power growth trending for future capacity allocations Pay attention to future regulations that will require this data
Use the data to find and utilize stranded capacity in the data center. 5 5
What Are The Security Considerations? PHYSICAL SECURITY
Understand Limits/Controls are Defined and Enforced
ACCESS SECURITY
Need to Protect Data, Regardless of Where It Is
Understand the Legal Concerns (PCI, HIPAA, SOX, SEC) Test the system yourself, both physically & logically Require the appropriate security and compliance
The data is YOUR legal responsibility, PERIOD. 6 6
How to Evaluate 3rd Party Cloud Providers? Compare your abilities to vendor’s capabilities
Reliability, redundancy, disaster recovery, capacity
Obtain binding service agreements
Uptime, access, capacity, bandwidth, migration termination
Validate the investment in technologies
Reliable and proven power & systems, latest server technology
Evidence / history of clients and performance
Testimonials, performance reports, provider stability
Maximizing availability, reliability and security will be the drivers for cloud providers. 7 7