Above The Clouds - Best practices to Create a Sustainable Computing Infrastructure to Achieve Business Value and Growth Paul Brant EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing 2010 Paul Brant EMC Corporation [email protected] Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................2 Table of Figures ..................................................................................................8 Table of Equations ..............................................................................................9 Abstract ..............................................................................................................11 Introduction .......................................................................................................13 Sustainability Metrics and what does it mean to be Sustainable ................................. 18 The Challenges to achieve Sustainability .................................................................... 20 The concept of Green .................................................................................................. 23 IT Sustainability and how to measure it ....................................................................... 24 The Carbon Footprint ........................................................................................26 Environment Pillar- Green Computing, Growing Sustainability.................... 31 Standards and Regulations ......................................................................................... 32 Best Practice – In the US, Consider Executive Order 13423 and energy-efficiency legislation regulations ............................................................................................... 32 Best Practice – Use tools and resources to understand environmental impacts ...... 33 IT facilities and Operations .......................................................................................... 34 Best Practice – Place Data Centers in locations of lower risk of natural disasters ... 35 Best Practice – Evaluate Power GRID and Network sustainability for IT Data Centers ................................................................................................................................. 37 Effectiveness Pillar ...........................................................................................39 Services and Partnerships ........................................................................................... 39 Tools and Best Practices ............................................................................................. 40 Efficiency Pillar .................................................................................................41 Information Management ............................................................................................. 42 Best Practice – Implement integrated Virtualized management into environment. .. 42 Best Practice - Having a robust Information Model .................................................. 44 Best Practices in Root Cause Analysis .................................................................... 46 2 2010 EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing Best practice - Effective root-cause analysis technique must be capable of identifying all those problems automatically. .................................................................................. 47 Best Practice – Rules-based correlation using CCT ................................................ 48 Best Practice - Reduction of Downstream Suppression ........................................... 49 Self Organizing Systems ............................................................................................. 50 Best Practice - Dynamic Control in a Self Organized System .................................. 53 Best Practice – Utilize STR’s when implementing adaptive controllers .................... 54 Best Practice – Require System Centric Properties ................................................. 55 Application ................................................................................................................ 57 Best Practice – Architect a designed for Run solution ...................................................... 58 Storage ..................................................................................................................... 59 Compression, Archiving and Data Deduplication .............................................................. 60 Autonomic self healing systems ........................................................................................ 66 Storage Media – Flash Disks ............................................................................................ 69 Best Practice – Utilize low power flash technologies ........................................................ 70 Server Virtualization ................................................................................................. 70 Best Practice – Implement DRS ........................................................................................ 71 Network........................................................................................................................ 72 Best Practice - Architect Your Network to Be the Orchestration Engine for Automated Service Delivery (The 5 S’s) ..................................................................................... 72 Scalable: ........................................................................................................................... 73 Simplified: .......................................................................................................................... 73 Standardized: .................................................................................................................... 73 Shared: .............................................................................................................................. 73 Secure: .............................................................................................................................. 73 Best Practice - Select the Right Cloud Network Platform ........................................ 74 Cloud network infrastructure ............................................................................................. 74 Cloud network operating system (OS) .............................................................................. 74 Cloud network management systems ............................................................................... 74 3 2010 EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing Cloud network security ...................................................................................................... 74 Best Practice – Consider implementing layer 2 Locator/ID Separation ....................... 75 Best Practice – Build a Case to Maximize Cloud Investments .................................... 76 Best Practice - Service Providers - Maximize and sustain Cloud Investments ............ 76 Best Practice - Enterprises - maximize and sustain Cloud Investments ...................... 77 Best Practice – Understand Information Logistics and Energy transposition tradeoffs 77 Infrastructure Architectures .......................................................................................... 80 Data Center Tier Classifications ............................................................................... 81 Cloud Overview ........................................................................................................ 84 Cloud Layers of Abstraction .............................................................................................. 87 Cloud Type Architecture(s) Computing Concerns .................................................... 88 Failure of Monocultures: .................................................................................................... 89 Convenience vs. Control ................................................................................................... 89 General distrust of external service providers ................................................................... 89 Concern to virtualize the majority of servers and desktop workloads ............................... 90 Fully virtualized environments are hard to manage .......................................................... 90 Many environments can't be virtualized onto x86 and hypervisors ................................... 90 Concerns on security ........................................................................................................ 91 Industry Standards ............................................................................................................ 91 Applications support for virtualized environments, or only the one the vendor sells ......... 91 Environmental Impact Concerns ....................................................................................... 92 Threshold Policy Concerns ................................................................................................ 93 Interoperability issues Concerns ....................................................................................... 93 Hidden Cost Concerns ...................................................................................................... 93 Unexpected behavior concerns ......................................................................................... 95 Private Cloud ...........................................................................................................