Transcript Data Center Applications

Data Center Applications
John Harker
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Hitachi Data Systems
March 23, 2005
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Data Center Applications - Panel
 The Impact of U/Blade/Superservers on the Data
Center Facility Infrastructure
Mark Evanko, Bruns-Pak
 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in a
Heterogeneous Storage Environment
Bernie Wu, FalconStor Software
 The Cool 10Gb/s Interconnect for Red-Hot Server
Blades
Thad Omura, Mellanox Technologies
 Preserving Dynamic Storage Provisioning with Blade
Servers
John Joseph, EqualLogic
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DataCenter Applications on Blades
Overview
 The New Datacenter Server Model
 The Well Managed Blade Server
 Distributed Systems Software
 Distributed Systems Storage
 Foundation Applications
 Virtual Environments
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The New Datacenter Server Model
 The evolving data center is using multiple systems made up of a set of
standard building blocks – network edge devices, load balancing devices,
application servers and high-performance hardened database systems.
 Deployed in three tier configurations, with front ends of network edge and
load balancing devices, a second tier of banks of application servers in
parallel, and a third tier of back-end high performance database servers.
 Much of the work is network transactions occurring across multiple systems
using high-speed networking or Infiniband interconnections
 Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Networks (SANs) and
Clustered Filesystems make storage a network attached resource and allow
shared access, easier management and control of stored data.
 There are three evolving areas of distributed systems software that enable
modular computing
– Web services,
– grid/clustered computing and
– distributed provisioning and management services.
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Three Tier Datacenter Model Example
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The well-managed blade system
Distributed
Environment
Standards
Bus and Hardware
I/O Standards
Software
Management
Standards
Hi-Speed
interconnect
standards
Hardware
Management
Standards
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Storage Management
Standards
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Hardware Management Standards - DMTF
 Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the DMTF's Common
Information Model (CIM).
– CIM is a standard for a common information model that features object friendly
data content format that can be expressed in XML.
– DMI is a component instrumentation interface for workstations and servers.
– SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) is the standard for management
extensions to the BIOS interface on Intel-based architectures).
– ASF (Alert Standard Format) which is an evolution of IBM and Intels Alert on
LAN (AoL) standard for status and control of devices before an O/S is loaded.
– DEN (Directory Enabled Network) standard so management services can use
standard distributed directories (via LDAP).
 The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry standards
organization developing management standards for enterprise and Internet
environments, and the Blade Systems Alliance (BladeS), have entered into an
alliance partnership where the two organizations will work to help strengthen and
speed the implementation of DMTF's server management and utility computing
standards
 Other related standards incorporate the DMTFs work: SNIA-driven SMI-S, open
source movement driven WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management) initiative,
Microsoft's WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), and blade-system
SMASH standards.
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Hardware Management Standards - SMASH
 The DMTF has formed a new sub-group, called the Server Management
Working Group which has released a new group of standards, dubbed
Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH). SMASH is
a collection of efforts aimed at enabling network managers to gather hardware
and low-level software information up to the OS.
 SMASH, like SMI-S, is based on and uses CIM
 The standard creates a unified way remote administration software can
perform tasks such as rebooting a machine, reconfiguring a storage
subsystem, assigning an Internet address to a machine or updating system
software
 SMASH augments the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
standard, released by the DMTF in 1998.
 SMASH includes a Command Line Protocol (CLP) for addressing and
discovering CIM objects, as well as CIM models and profiles.
 Working on the standard are Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun as well as
Microsoft, Oracle, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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Distributed Systems Software
 Web Services decouple an application from any single operating system
environment. Applications written to a Web services model can
transparently access any other portion of the application - no matter what
computer or operating system it is running on.
 Grids, clusters and virtual operating systems enable processor power to be
scaled to the application on demand. They also facilitate building faulttolerant applications for improved reliability.
– Clustering infrastructures are evolving from proprietary to standardsbased and open system-oriented.
– Grid computing offers the same advantages as clustering but over
multiple operating systems and hardware platform without the need for
tightly integrated system software.
– Both are complementary with Web services and are important elements
of solutions that scale applications and make them more reliable.
 Distributed provisioning and management software allows software
installation and ongoing control of multiple servers and/or the individual
blades in a blade server.
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Distributed Systems Storage
 Increasing use of consolidated SAN-attached storage
– Often front-ended with NAS
– Centralized system image and remote boot support
 Storage pooling and storage virtualization
– HDS Thunder, Lightning, TagmaStore USP
– NetAPP Flexvol
– IBM's Virtualization Engine Suite for Storage
– HP Storage Grid
 Clustered filesystems
 CIM/SMI-S standards-based provisioning and management
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Foundation Applications
 Distributed Application Environments
– Linux and Windows Clusters
– Using Distributed Systems Software Tools
 Web services-based application development
– Globus Toolkit
– Parallel Compilers
 Commercial Middleware
– Oracle (Real Application Clusters, or RAC)
– IBM DB2 (‘Stinger’, Partition Adviser)
– IBM WebSphere
– SAP on DB2 or RAC
– BEA WebLogic Server Cluster
– More
 Virtual Environments
– VMware
– Microsoft Virtual Server (Connectix)
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Virtual Environments – example: VMware
 VMware ESX Server is VMware's virtual infrastructure
software for partitioning, consolidating and managing
computing resources.
– Virtual SMP support allows virtual machines to span multiple
physical processors, enabling virtual machines to scale for
resource-intensive and/or fault-tolerant enterprise
applications.
 VMware VirtualCenter provides customers a central point of
control for virtual computing resources, and
 VMotion technology enables live virtual machines to be
migrated for dynamic load balancing and zero-downtime
maintenance.
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Panel Member Presentations
Questions and Answers
March 23, 2005
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Blade Server Management
Standards Overview
March 23, 2005
John Harker
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Hitachi Data Systems
© 2004 Hitachi Data Systems
The well-managed blade system
Distributed
Environment
Standards
Bus and Hardware
I/O Standards
Software
Management
Standards
Hi-Speed
interconnect
standards
Hardware
Management
Standards
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Storage Management
Standards
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Hardware Management Standards - IPMI
 Intel’s Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a message-based hardware
management interface implemented at the silicon level using a baseboard management
controller, a small processor that sets up IPMI as a subsystem independent of the
server's CPU or operating system. It enables remote monitoring, management and
recovery capabilities, regardless of the status of the server.
 IPMI defines a common interface to how vendors monitor their system hardware and
sensors (temperature, voltage, fan, etc.), control system components (power, blades,
etc.), log important system events (chassis intrusion, CPU performance, etc.), and to
allow administrators to remotely manage and recover failed systems.
 IPMI is promoted by Intel, Dell, HP, NEC and others
 IPMI 2.0 offers enhanced security by adding SHA-1 for detecting changes to the data
stream, AES for better encryption, and VLAN support for better traffic isolation. To
improve remote monitoring, the specification also includes serial redirection over the
LAN for remote viewing of an IPMI server's boot process, as well as use of emergency
management consoles.
 IPMI 2.0 beefs up blade system support in three ways. First, it reports on the status of
blades while being hot-swapped, indicating whether the module is active or inactive, for
example. Second, it monitors a secondary IPMI management bus that's commonly used
in carrier-grade products built with Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA).
Finally, it improves hacker and malware protection by restricting management
capabilities to a given interface through a so-called "Firmware Firewall."
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Hardware Management Standards
AdvancedTCA
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Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture
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Developed as PICMG 3.x specs by PCI Industrial
Computers Manufacturers Group
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Focused primarily on telecom, but potentially useful in other
applications
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Rapidly gaining traction in telecom
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With recent ECN-001, has 160+ pages on platform
management
– Currently based on & extends IPMI v1.5 r1.1
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Hardware Management Standards - DMTF
 Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the DMTF's Common Information
Model (CIM).
– CIM is a standard for a common information model that features object friendly data
content format that can be expressed in XML.
– DMI is a component instrumentation interface for workstations and servers.
– SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) is the standard for management extensions to
the BIOS interface on Intel-based architectures).
– ASF (Alert Standard Format) which is an evolution of IBM and Intels Alert on LAN
(AoL) standard for status and control of devices before an O/S is loaded.
– DEN (Directory Enabled Network) standard so management services can use
standard distributed directories (via LDAP).
 The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry standards organization
developing management standards for enterprise and Internet environments, and the
Blade Systems Alliance (BladeS), have entered into an alliance partnership where the
two organizations will work to help strengthen and speed the implementation of DMTF's
server management and utility computing standards
 Other related standards incorporating the DMTFs work include SNIA-driven SMI-S, open
source movement driven WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management) initiative and
Microsoft's WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) standard.
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Hardware Management Standards - SMASH
 The DMTF has formed a new sub-group, called the Server Management Working Group
which has released a new group of standards, dubbed Systems Management
Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH). SMASH is a collection of efforts aimed at
enabling network managers to gather hardware and low-level software information up to
the OS.
 SMASH, like SMI-S, is based on and uses CIM
 The standard creates a unified way remote administration software can perform tasks
such as rebooting a machine, reconfiguring a storage subsystem, assigning an Internet
address to a machine or updating system software
 SMASH augments the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard, released
by the DMTF in 1998.
 SMASH includes a Command Line Protocol (CLP) for addressing and discovering CIM
objects, as well as CIM models and profiles.
 Working on the standard are Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun as well as Microsoft,
Oracle, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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Microsoft’s WMX
 Microsoft has pushed its own proposed management framework,
code-named Web services for Management Extension (WMX). The
framework describes a generic SOAP-based management protocol
that reuses Microsoft's existing Web Service (WS) specifications and
security models to support server management operations.
 Microsoft positions WMX as complementary to SMASH, noting that
after integrating feedback about WMX from DMTF members, Microsoft
would propose WMX as a standard to the DMTF
 There are concerns about overlap
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Software Management Standards
 Software Management products for blades falls into a variety of categories such as:
– change and configuration management;
– image cloning and management;
– provisioning;
– application monitoring and control, and
– policy-based management
 At a low level a variety of standards exist and are used for these applications, such as
the DMTF standards, SNMP and syslog, but at higher levels there is little
standardization. Instead what may be most appropriate and is happening is for the major
cross-platform management tools to add blade management capabilities.
 So software management software is a key factor in differentiating among the vendors,
for example (not complete list):
– Egenera's Processing Area Network management software will provide the Epic and
Oracle software with automatic backup and failover capabilities within the blade
server chassis.
– IBM’s IBM Director connects with IBM’s Tivoli management software for more
expansive capabilities and IBM‘s Web Infrastructure Orchestration software,
designed to automate data-center operations for its Intel-based BladeCenter servers
running its WebSphere middleware, DB2 database, and Tivoli Storage Manager
software.
– RLX Technologies Control Tower XT software
– HP's Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) server management package and HP’s Insight
Manager which hooks into HP OpenView
– Dell's OpenManage server management package.
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Distributed Environment Standards
 The web services standards community (WW3, DMTF,
Oasis) and the grid computing standards community
(Globus) are standardizing on a common set of
Internet based standards for distributed services (IPC,
directory, security, data formats, events). These will be
important for both remote management and for
commercial application support.
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Thanks!
March 23, 2005
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