Data center virtualization:
Data center virtualization is the process of designing,
developing and deploying a data center on
virtualization and cloud computing technologies.
It primarily enables virtualizing physical servers in a data
center facility along with storage, networking and other
infrastructure devices and equipment. Data center
virtualization usually produces a virtualized, cloud and
collocated virtual/cloud data center. Virtualization
,Offering profound changes to the way data centers
perform, virtualization makes sense on multiple levels.
Benefits:
1: Less heat buildup
Millions of dollars have gone into the research and design
of heat dissipation and control in the data center. But the
cold, hard fact is, all of those servers generate heat. The
only way around that? Use fewer servers. How do you
manage that? Virtualization. Virtualize your servers and
you're using less physical hardware. Use less physical
hardware and you generate less heat. Generate less heat in
your data center and a host of issues go away.
2: Reduced cost
Hardware is most often the highest cost in the data center.
Reduce the amount of hardware used and you reduce your
cost. But the cost goes well beyond that of hardware —
lack of downtime, easier maintenance, less electricity used.
Over time, this all adds up to a significant cost savings.
3: Faster redeploy
When you use a physical server and it dies, the redeploy
time depends on a number of factors: Do you have a
backup server ready? With virtualization, the redeploy can
occur within minutes. Virtual machine snapshots can be
enabled with just a few clicks.
Benefits of PaaS:
1. Lower administrative overhead: Customer need not
bother about the administration because it is the
responsibility of cloud provider.
2. Lower total cost of ownership: Customer need not
purchase expensive hardware, servers, power, and data
storage.
3. Scalable solutions: It is very easy to scale the resources up
or down automatically, based on their demand.
4. More current system software: It is the responsibility of
the cloud provider to maintain software versions and patch
installations.
Issues of PaaS
1. Lack of portability between PaaS clouds: Although
standard languages are used, yet the implementations of
platform services may vary. For example, file, queue, or
hash table interfaces of one platform may differ from
another, making it difficult to transfer the workloads from
one platform to another.
2. Event based processor scheduling: The PaaS applications
are event-oriented which poses resource constraints on
applications, i.e., they have to answer a request in a given
interval of time.
3. Security engineering of PaaS applications: Since PaaS
applications are dependent on network, they must explicitly
use cryptography and manage security exposures.
4: Easier backups
Not only can you do full backups of your virtual server, you can
do backups and snapshots of your virtual machines. These
virtual machines can be moved from one server to another and
redeployed easier and faster. Snapshots can be taken
throughout the day, ensuring much more up-to-date data. And
because firing up a snapshot is even faster than booting a
typical server, downtime is dramatically cut.
5: Better disaster recovery
Disaster recovery is quite a bit easier when your data center
is virtualized. With up-to-date snapshots of your virtual
machines, you can quickly get back up and running. And
should disaster strike the data center itself, you can always
move those virtual machines elsewhere (so long as you can
re-create the network addressing scheme and such). Having
that level of flexibility means your disaster recovery plan
will be easier to enact and will have a much higher success
rate.
Advantages of public clouds:
Lower costs – no need to purchase hardware or software,
and you only pay for the service you use.
No maintenance – your service provider provides the
maintenance.
Near-unlimited scalability – on-demand resources are
available to meet your business needs.
High reliability – a vast network of servers ensures against
failure.
Advantages of a private cloud:
More flexibility – your organization can customize its cloud
environment to meet specific business needs.
Improved security – resources are not shared with others,
so higher levels of control and security are possible.
High scalability – private clouds still afford the scalability
and efficiency of a public cloud.
Benefits of IaaS:
1.Full control over computing resources through
administrative access to VMs: IaaS allows the customer to
access computing resources through administrative access
to virtual machines in the following manner:
Customer issues administrative command to cloud
provider to run the virtual machine or to save data
on cloud server.
Customer issues administrative command to virtual
machines they owned to start web server or to
install new applications.
2.Flexible and Efficient Renting of Computer Hardware:
IaaS resources such as virtual machines, storage devices,
bandwidth, IP addresses, monitoring services, firewalls, etc.
are made available to the customers on rent. The payment
is based upon the amount of time the customer retains a
resource. Also with administrative access to virtual
machines, the customer can run any software, even a
custom operating system.
3.Portability, Interoperability with Legacy Applications:
It is possible to maintain legacy between applications and
workloads between IaaS clouds. For example, network
applications such as web server or e-mail server that
normally runs on customer-owned server hardware can also
run from VMs in IaaS cloud.
Benefits Cloud Computing:
1.Less Costs
The services are free from capital expenditure. There are no
huge costs of hardware in cloud computing. You just have
to pay as you operate it and enjoy the model based on your
subscription plan.
- 2. 24 X 7 Availability
Most of the cloud providers are truly reliable in offering
their services, with most of them maintaining an uptime of
99.9%. The workers can get onto the applications needed
basically from anywhere. Some of the applications even
function off-line.
- 3. Flexibility in Capacity
It offers flexible facility which could be turned off, up or
down as per the circumstances of the user. For instance, a
promotion of sales is very popular, capacity can be
immediately and quickly added to it for the avoidance of
losing sales and crashing servers. When those sales are
done, the capacity can also be shrunk for the reduction of
costs.
4. All over Functioning
Cloud computing offers yet another advantage of working
from anywhere across the globe, as long as you have an
internet connection. Even while using the critical cloud
services that offer mobile apps, there is no limitation of the
device used.
- 5. Automated Updates on Software
In cloud computing, the server suppliers regularly update
your software including the updates on security, so that you
do not need to agonize on wasting your crucial time on
maintaining the system. You find extra time to focus on the
important things like ‘How to
grow your businesses.
Benefits of SaaS:
2. Efficient use of software licenses: The customer can
have single license for multiple computers running at
different locations which reduces the licensing cost. Also,
there is no requirement for license servers because the
software runs in the provider's infrastructure.
3. Centralized management and data: The cloud provider
stores data centrally. However, the cloud providers may
store data in a decentralized manner for the sake of
redundancy and reliability.
4. Platform responsibilities managed by providers:
All platform responsibilities such as backups, system
maintenance, security, hardware refresh, power
management, etc. are performed by the cloud provider.
The customer does not need to bother about them.
5. Multitenant solutions: Multitenant solutions allow
multiple users to share single instance of different
resources in virtual isolation. Customers can customize
their application without affecting the core functionality.
Issues of SaaS:
1.Browser related risks
2. Network dependence
3.Portablility issues