Introduction To IT Infrastructure Components and Their Operation

Introduction to IT Infrastructure
Components and Their Operation

Balzs Kuti
Challenges faced by enterprises
today, scale of the IT plant
Diversity of an IT plant
Key Server Infrastructure
Components
Configuration Management
ITIL, IT Support Models
Change and is! Management
Data Centers
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IT Challenges of %nterprises today
Challenges&
Scale
Deployment and OS build
OS # Configuration Diversity'(ygiene
Support personnel
(igh availability'resiliency
Special () *trader des!tops+
%nvironment, po,er saving
IT Infrastructure Scale in -umbers
The most popular social net,or!.s server count& /0,000 1
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2hysical e3pansion
Capacity planning
IT Infrastructure Scale in -umbers
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4ni3 ' linu3
)indo,s
S$- ' -$S
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Diversity of an IT plant
%very effort is made to have uniform components *e5g5 h, models,
soft,are components+
$void vendor loc!ing *price competition, delivery capability, service 6uality+
Lifecycle management *() and S)+, decommission is often a pain
Custom solutions
)rappers, for easier ,or!
Central configuration database
$ccess and auditing
2rotection from mista!es
%3amples& managing 7M)are servers from 4ni3 command line,
manipulating -$S filers and shares, managing S$- configuration
Self service, post8build custom application profiles
Key Components of the IT Infrastructure
-et,or! and 9oot services
D-S, D(C2, 2:%, 2rinting, Monitoring
Security components
;ire,alls, net,or! monitoring
Store user information *authentication'authori<ation+
$ctive Directory, LD$2
Cross8platform authentication
Kerberos
Lifecycle and configuration management
Distribution servers, Configuration and patch management, CMD9
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=rid -ode management
Configuration management for tens of thousands of nodes
4tili<ation and health monitoring
Managing node allocations and chargebac!
Single or multiple schedulers
Lo, () specification
Special net,or! configuration
Storage issues
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)hat is change management>
Change ' Configuration ' elease Management
Development and testing
$pproval process
Importance of chec!out and bac!out
Ma?or incidents can be caused by minor changes
9lac!out periods
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(o, to ma!e it measurable>
Identify @ 2rioriti<e @ 2lan and Schedule @ Trac! and eport
%3amples
Data Center in Iceland
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Support model
)hy do ,e need support model>
)ho are the customers>
ITIL *Service Des!, LA8LB8LC8%ng, %CC, local IT support+, Service
Managers, SL$
;ollo, the Sun
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$vailability Do,ntime DminsE
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Data Centers
2roblem
Safe and reliable centrali<ed operation of the
IT infrastructure under e3treme
circumstances
Design
Many engineering disciplines involved
Site selection criteria
$ccommodate computers, storage, bac!up,
net,or! e6uipment
$ccommodate supplementary e6uipment&
;ire e3tinguisher, cooling, 42S, =enerators,
fuel, etc5
edundant net,or! *I2, ;C+ and grid
connection on physically different paths
Security *physical, internal, e3ternal+
Change, ris!, vendor management
COB emission, green technologies
HOURS
8000
7500
7000
6500
6000
5500
5000
Datacenter Site Strategy
2roperty price
is! assessment&
2olitical stability
%conomy
-atural, terrorist disasters
=reen energy sources&
(ydro8 , solar8, ,ind po,er
)aste heat recycling
opportunities
I9M.s DC in S,it<erland heats
a to,n s,imming pool
Cheap cooling *air and'or ,ater+
Independent and high capacity
2o,er sources
-et,or! connections
Dar! 9lue Ione& ;ree cooling available for circa J000hrs
per year *FAG+
*A year K JL/0 hours+
Data hall recommended range& AJMC 8 BLMC
Data hall allo,able ange& AHMC 8 CBMC
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Google - St. Ghislain
HP - Wynyard
Microsoft - Dublin
Data Center Scale and Management
IT vs5 non8IT floor space up to A&A
2o,er usage monitoring
*2o,erdo,n events+
;inding and fi3ing cooling
inefficiencies
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Classification and Operation Models
esiliency Levels& Tier A8B8C8N
Operation model
ent computing po,er from the OCloudP
*$ma<on, (2, Oracle+
ent a facility ,ith personnel
9uy a facility
9C2 site ration models
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Tier
Level
Requirements
A
Single non8redundant distribution path serving the IT
e6uipment
-on8redundant capacity components
9asic site infrastructure guaranteeing 99.671% availability
B
;ulfils all Tier A re6uirements
edundant site infrastructure capacity components
guaranteeing 99.741% availability
C
;ulfils all Tier A # Tier B re6uirements
Multiple independent distribution paths serving the IT
e6uipment
$ll IT e6uipment must be dual8po,ered and fully
compatible ,ith the topology of a siteQs architecture
Concurrently maintainable site infrastructure guaranteeing
99.982% availability
N
;ulfils all Tier A, Tier B and Tier C re6uirements
$ll cooling e6uipment is independently dual8po,ered,
including chillers and (eating, 7entilating and $ir
Conditioning *(7$C+ systems
;ault tolerant site infrastructure ,ith electrical po,er
storage and distribution facilities guaranteeing 99.995%
availability
(ard,are Implementation
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The Google Way
Traditional solutions&
blade chassis, I9M iData2le3 (2 Spartans
,ith top8of8rac! s,itch
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"uestions for invaluable pri<e
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