DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

Data centers are successful only when the infrastructure underlying is highly available with maximum efficiency and reliability. To ensure such a state of operation a complete management of data center is essential. At the same time, the operations involved should be cost effective and scalable in proportion to the growth of the data center.

Virtualization in Datacentre

Power consumption and efficiency of the datacenters have been a question and a topic for discussion over the years in many Go green initiatives. Now, with the adoption of virtualization, datacenters can effectively use the available resources more effectively. The table below shows the current issues and its solutions using virtualization.

Issues	Solution
Slow provisioning time	New OS can be provisioned less than a minute
Hardware disaster and time of recovery	Environments can be restored onto a different hardware even if the currently used hardware got crashed
Large number of Servers	Reduction in number of servers will enable consolidation into fewer datacentre facilities
Increased need of of floor space, power and cooling	Reduced server requirement thereby space and other requirements
Removing unsupported platforms	That issue never arises in a virtualized environment

Automation solution and Configuration Management for datacenters

One of the common issues faced by the management teams in any company will be the repetition of tasks. It will affect the overall productivity as the routine works become uninterestingly difficult. But system administrators can find a permanent solution to this by making use of configuration management tools for their administrative tasks and can provide smarter platform for the employees to work on.

There are plenty of tools available for configuration, paid ones and open-source. Spark support believes that open source management tools can be both effective and flexible as the paid compatriots. Ruby based Puppet is the most effective configuration tool available today that has a client-server architecture.

Custom scripts and applications rarely scale to suit large environments especially datacenters and often have issues of stability, flexibility, and functionality. Such scripts tend to suit one target platform, resulting in situations like a new user creation would require different scripts for BSD, Linux and Solaris. This increases the time and effort required to develop and maintain the very tools you hope to reduce administrative efforts.

Pull the strings with Puppet configuration management

Puppet's recipe syntax allows you to create a single script with a user on all your target hosts. In turn, this recipe is interpreted and executed on each target host using the correct local syntax for that host.

Another area that Puppet excels is in flexibility. As its an opensource tool, you always have free access to the source code. That means, if you have a problem and you have the skills to do so, you can become the "Master", alter or enhance Puppet's code to suit your environment.

Every transaction between client and master puppet server is through a secured using SSL to avoid any possible threats.

Spark support has a highly skilled data center management team with years of experience in handling mission critical data centers. Our certified engineers can skillfully assess the existing infrastructure and employ well worked out practices rather than sticking to the usual industry standards into the management operations. This can prove to be highly cost effective while considering the recurring expenses and as a result ( you can divert the operating capital towards scaling up your data center. We also believe that a tailored management approach can be equally effective in data centers of certain nature. Thus, we can also build a customized support plan for your infrastructure according your specific requirements that can bring down the overall operating costs.

• well experienced support team dedicated to each customer personally.
• complete consolidation of your data center by devising comprehensive management plans.
• round the clock monitoring and proactive support to ensure high reliability for your data center.
• leveraging existing infrastructure by evaluating existing setup and deploying well worked out practices.
• reduced operating costs by means of customizable plans enabling effortless infrastructure scalability.