virtual data center

1. Mitigate common servers threats
by adopting virtual data center
Saharudin Saat

2. Agenda
• Problems
• Objectives
• Significance
• Tools
• Way forward

3. Obsolete
hardwareNo HA
Unpatched
Systems
Slow
Recovery Viruses
Problems
High power
consumption

4. Obsolete hardware
• In case of hardware failure
– RAM,Hard disk,motherboard etc
– Order spare part from overseas

5. No HA
• Traditional approach
– One system One server (silo)
– Long down time

6. Slow Recovery
• Process of recovering
– Couples of hours
– Install os,install apps,hardening, etc
– Waste of time

7. Unpatched systems
• Subscription has expired
– Suse,Redhat (enterprise)
• Auto update disabled / not configured
– Windows server, GNU/linux

8. Viruses
• Unpatched systems are vulnerable
– Software problems (malware installed)
– DDOS attack
– Service interruption (intermittent)

9. High power consumption
• Unproductive Servers
– Ghost servers

10. Objectives
• To improve system availability (HA)
• To improve data center management
• To reduce operational cost

11. Significance
• Open source Tools
• In house development
• Base on Blue Ocean Strategy
“The aim of BOS is not to out-perform
the competition in the existing
industry, but to create new market
space or a blue ocean, thereby making
the competition irrelevant.
(quote : What is BOS? www.blueoceanstrategy.com/abo/what_is_bos.html )

12. Tools
– Virtualization
• ovirt

13. Tools
– Storage
• Gluster

14. Tools
– Monitoring
• Nagios – notification on twitter

15. Tools
– Backup
• Automysqlbackup
• Amanda

16. Tools
• Patch management system
– Spacewalk

17. Way forward
• Disaster Recovery Center
• Hybrid cloud
• Green Data center
• Open source hardware