Data center "cloudification" solves the embarrassment of virtualization

Virtualization technology is being used more and more widely in this era of cloud computing explosion. Compared with the previous "real" physical devices, enterprises have introduced virtualization technology into internal networks and placed more data resources in resource pools, making data, management, and operation and maintenance more virtual, thereby greatly reducing the visibility of IT management in the entire enterprise.

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For enterprises, in daily management, managers hope to have a clearer understanding and operation and maintenance of the enterprise's network. However, with the continuous application of virtualization technology, on the one hand, it reduces the work pressure of IT managers on the physical device side, but as we said before, the authenticity of the hardware equipment is greatly reduced. These are the "embarrassments" brought about by virtualization technology. In this issue, we will talk about these embarrassments.

What does the “cloudification” of data centers bring?

Cloud computing has become more and more mature, and many companies' data centers have begun to make full use of cloud computing platforms for operations. The most obvious feature of data centers in the cloud era is the extensive application of virtualization technology, which has also changed the objects of operation and maintenance management. The use of virtualization technology can reduce the number of physical servers and devices in the data center and provide higher flexibility to meet rapidly changing business requirements.

The result of virtualization technology is that all these resources are "pooled", making all management objects virtual and flexibly migrated logical entities. It becomes difficult to visualize the physical location of resources in the data center.

This poses a problem for the network configuration of the data center. Since the data center managers and server equipment administrators need to communicate constantly and perform many tedious steps such as troubleshooting, repair, and testing, this increases the probability of problems with the enterprise data center and other infrastructure.

On the other hand, the boundaries between networks and servers have become more blurred, which has brought about the problem of coordinated scheduling of network and computing resources. The normal operation of the business depends not only on the reasonable scheduling of resources on the server, but also on the reasonable scheduling of network connections.

How to deal with the "embarrassment" brought by virtualization

Faced with the above difficulties, enterprises need to establish a data center platform based on cloud technology, so as to connect the computing nodes between the entire network through this system, and at the same time, realize the connection between physical resources and virtual resources. Only in this way can the automation of enterprise network operation and maintenance be finally realized and the operation and maintenance efficiency of the data center be improved.

In data centers in the cloud era, IT managers must be able to always understand the status of their own IT resources and the correspondence between virtual machines and physical servers. At the same time, they must clearly establish the relationship between physical servers, virtual machines, physical networks, and virtual networks, and establish the relationship between these elements and the business systems of the data center.

Conclusion

For enterprises, it is very necessary to integrate the software and hardware resources in the data center to meet user needs and improve the overall operation and maintenance efficiency of the data center. In addition, when dealing with virtualization bottlenecks, it is necessary to integrate and connect the resources between hardware devices such as servers. Only in this way can virtualization technology play a greater role in the network in the cloud era.