Initial Data Center Consolidation Plan
Defense Management Data Center
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Agency Approach, Rationale and Timeline 6
Agency Governance Framework for Data Center Consolidation 8
Agency Governance Framework for Data Center Consolidation 8
Initial Assessment 9
Appendix A: Initial Data Center Consolidation Plan Template.............................................10
Introduction
The objective of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is to reduce the overall energy use and footprint of the DMDC data centers located in Seaside, CA; Auburn Hills, MI; Rosslyn, VA; and Alexandria (Beauregard), VA.
Through ongoing virtualization efforts, the DMDC is reducing the operating costs and increasing the efficiency of all data centers. The DMDC has been replacing End-of-Life (EOL) equipment with new equipment which has increased computational power and a lower operating cost, the investment will provide for more efficient computing platforms and technologies.
DMDC is also exploring opportunities within the guidelines of the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative. Cloud computing has the capability to reduce the cost of DMDC’s IT infrastructure by utilizing commercially available technology that is based on virtualization of servers, databases and applications to allow for capital cost savings.
Agency Goals for Data Center Consolidation
Reduction of the cost of data center hardware, software and operations
The goals for DMDC data centers includes a 80% end-state virtualization of all applicable servers, xx% end-state virtualization of storage systems; xx% end-state virtualization of applications and xx% end-state virtualization of operations (networks,
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Agency Governance Framework for Data Center Consolidation
DMDC has and will establish sustained IT governance to eliminate redundant spending on systems, infrastructure and operations; eliminate isolated systems solutions; develop metrics to assist executives on decisions of data centers and infrastructure.
DMDC will conduct benchmarking against other government data centers and best-of-breed comparable private organizations by tracking performance across all departments; establishing sensible Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Operational Level Agreements (OLA) for DMDC operated data centers; and create an advisory board to assist with the benchmarking initiative.
Initial Assessment
Appendix A: Initial Data Center Consolidation Plan Template
It will identify the identified constraints and assumptions of the infrastructure expansion and data warehouse build and design. As with any project it will identify the risks. The Scope of the project will be documented in the business requirements document and all other projects that are associated with this project will be documented.
For that hardware virtualisation is more beneficial to handle all servers together and provide data from data centre of server to user virtual desktop.
The scope of this project revolves around the addition of new resources and expansion of existing systems and hardware. This will provide an avenue for a larger entity that has the capability to deliver in an efficient and effective manner. A hybrid model such as cloud technologies will provide the appropriate structure relevant for a large and growing entity as per the proposed merger. A cloud technology can be hosted within and outside the entity for security reasons and maintenance issues. It assumes an important role in terms of costs reduction for the entity given that it results in the reduction of the number of personnel that would be tasked with maintaining and securing the in-house database and systems. Labor and subsequent resources usually result in higher costs of operation within the entity, which in turn hurts the profit margins and possibly the strategic objectives, and goals of the organization (Hallows, 2002).
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To begin with, virtualization reduces hardware costs by reducing consolidating equipment. Initially, Seabreeze will reduce the physical server infrastructure by 70%. The project will upgrade the data center to 21 energy efficient servers with enough resources (CPUs, networking, memory, and disk storage) to host the virtual infrastructure. As for storage, the VMs will be stored on a storage area network (SAN). That is to say, the server cluster will be connected to a petabyte SAN for data
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As we all know virtualization is the requirement of future. We have evolved from the age of traditional environment to virtual environment.We have grown accustomed to almost all things virtual from virtual memory to virtual networks to virtual storage.The most widely leveraged benefit of virtualization technology is server consolidation, enabling one server to take on the workloads of multiple servers. For example, by consolidating a branch office’s print server, fax server, exchange server, and web server on a single windows server, businesses reduce the costs of hardware, maintenance, and staffing.
Global energy demand from data centers has increased 50% from 2005-2010. It grew by 19% in 2012 alone. This is in contrast to the global electricity consumption which was roughly flat.
Cloud computing is able to increase the speed of business. Cloud computing offers the speed to make computing resources on an instance basis, not just need to first survey time and skilled resources in design and implement infrastructure and applications to deploy and test it. Cloud computing can engance revenue, share bigger market, or other advantages.
Today’s servers are designed to last for longer periods; however, the idea of keeping up with new data center demands, requires constant hardware upgrade. The main reasons for undertaking server upgrade include; need to extend the server’s life, need to get the most out of the existing servers, the need to make use of the old data center hardware and implications of virtualization. Server virtualization is a critically networking function because it makes one server act as many servers; each with unique applications and Operatin...
Data center, in the context of big data, is not only for data storage but it plays significant role to acquire, manage and organize the big data. Big data has uncompromising requirement for storage and processing capacity. Hence the data center development should be the focus for effective and rapid processing capacity. With the increasing scale of data centers, the operational cost should be reduced for the development of data centers. Today’s data centers are application-centric, powering the many business applications, standalone websites and e-commerce offerings on the web. Tomorrow’s data centers need to be data centric: storage and infrastructure capacity must be expanded to support IoT/Big Data-generated information. This also affects future bandwidth in data centers as resources will be mostly consumed by IoT sensors and machines, as opposed to user activity and behaviour.
System design in a data center network provides the tools for addressing the challenges that occur with expansion of data center infrastructure. This includes support for the rapid growth of applications and their data and storage bandwidth, managing and modifying data storage requirements, optimize server-processing resources and access information