1. Data Center Applications John Harker Senior Product Marketing Manager Hitachi Data Systems
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COMPRESS YOUR POWERPOINTS TO THE OPTIMUM SIZE FOR SCREEN DISPLAY in Powerpoint 2002
Highlight any picture in the presentation (even the title image in the title master)
Right click on the picture and select Format Picture
Under the picture tab there is a button called Compress.  Click on the button.
In the Compress Pictures dialog box select Apply to All Pictures in Document and Change Resolution to Web/Screen
Click OK. Any possible picture optimization will be applied in a few seconds.
Click OK.
Use Save As to save the File under the same or a different filename
TO SAVE THIS AS A MASTER TEMPLATE ….
Use SAVE AS in the file menu and select DESIGN TEMPLATE (.POT) as the file type.
Save it to the APPLICATION DATA/MICROSOFT/TEMPLATES directory (should be presented by default)
From then on this Master template should be available to you for use in the Apply a design template/Available for Use section of the TASK PANE. Simply select it and you can bring in the page templates for use.
YOU CAN ALSO USE THIS TEMPLATE AS A REGULAR POWERPOINT FILE and simply delete unused files.
To keep final presentations as small as possible, it’s best to delete any and all page templates not used in the presentation before doing your final SAVE AS.
March 23, 2005
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2. Data Center Applications - Panel
The Impact of U/Blade/Superservers on the Data Center Facility Infrastructure Mark Evanko, Bruns-Pak
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in a Heterogeneous Storage Environment Bernie Wu, FalconStor Software
The Cool 10Gb/s Interconnect for Red-Hot Server Blades Thad Omura, Mellanox Technologies
Preserving Dynamic Storage Provisioning with Blade Servers John Joseph, EqualLogic
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3. DataCenter Applications on Blades Overview
The New Datacenter Server Model
The Well Managed Blade Server
Distributed Systems Software
Distributed Systems Storage
Foundation Applications
Virtual Environments
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4. The New Datacenter Server Model
The evolving data center is using multiple systems made up of a set of standard building blocks – network edge devices, load balancing devices, application servers and high-performance hardened database systems.
Deployed in three tier configurations, with front ends of network edge and load balancing devices, a second tier of banks of application servers in parallel, and a third tier of back-end high performance database servers.
Much of the work is network transactions occurring across multiple systems using high-speed networking or Infiniband interconnections
Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Clustered Filesystems make storage a network attached resource and allow shared access, easier management and control of stored data.
There are three evolving areas of distributed systems software that enable modular computing
Web services,
grid/clustered computing and
distributed provisioning and management services.
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5. Three Tier Datacenter Model Example
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6. The well-managed blade system
Bus and Hardware I/O Standards
Distributed Environment Standards
Software Management Standards
Hi-Speed interconnect standards
Hardware Management Standards
Storage Management Standards
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7. Hardware Management Standards - DMTF
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM).
CIM is a standard for a common information model that features object friendly data content format that can be expressed in XML.
DMI is a component instrumentation interface for workstations and servers.
SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) is the standard for management extensions to the BIOS interface on Intel-based architectures).
ASF (Alert Standard Format) which is an evolution of IBM and Intels Alert on LAN (AoL) standard for status and control of devices before an O/S is loaded.
DEN (Directory Enabled Network) standard so management services can use standard distributed directories (via LDAP).
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry standards organization developing management standards for enterprise and Internet environments, and the Blade Systems Alliance (BladeS), have entered into an alliance partnership where the two organizations will work to help strengthen and speed the implementation of DMTF's server management and utility computing standards
Other related standards incorporate the DMTFs work: SNIA-driven SMI-S, open source movement driven WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management) initiative, Microsoft's WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), and blade-system SMASH standards.
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September 18, 2018

8. Hardware Management Standards - SMASH
The DMTF has formed a new sub-group, called the Server Management Working Group which has released a new group of standards, dubbed Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH). SMASH is a collection of efforts aimed at enabling network managers to gather hardware and low-level software information up to the OS.
SMASH, like SMI-S, is based on and uses CIM
The standard creates a unified way remote administration software can perform tasks such as rebooting a machine, reconfiguring a storage subsystem, assigning an Internet address to a machine or updating system software
SMASH augments the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard, released by the DMTF in 1998.
SMASH includes a Command Line Protocol (CLP) for addressing and discovering CIM objects, as well as CIM models and profiles.
Working on the standard are Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun as well as Microsoft, Oracle, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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9. Distributed Systems Software
Web Services decouple an application from any single operating system environment. Applications written to a Web services model can transparently access any other portion of the application - no matter what computer or operating system it is running on.
Grids, clusters and virtual operating systems enable processor power to be scaled to the application on demand. They also facilitate building fault- tolerant applications for improved reliability.
Clustering infrastructures are evolving from proprietary to standards-based and open system-oriented.
Grid computing offers the same advantages as clustering but over multiple operating systems and hardware platform without the need for tightly integrated system software.
Both are complementary with Web services and are important elements of solutions that scale applications and make them more reliable.
Distributed provisioning and management software allows software installation and ongoing control of multiple servers and/or the individual blades in a blade server.
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10. Distributed Systems Storage
Increasing use of consolidated SAN-attached storage
Often front-ended with NAS
Centralized system image and remote boot support
Storage pooling and storage virtualization
HDS Thunder, Lightning, TagmaStore USP
NetAPP Flexvol
IBM's Virtualization Engine Suite for Storage
HP Storage Grid
Clustered filesystems
CIM/SMI-S standards-based provisioning and management
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11. Foundation Applications
Distributed Application Environments
Linux and Windows Clusters
Using Distributed Systems Software Tools
Web services-based application development
Globus Toolkit
Parallel Compilers
Commercial Middleware
Oracle (Real Application Clusters, or RAC)
IBM DB2 (‘Stinger’, Partition Adviser)
IBM WebSphere
SAP on DB2 or RAC
BEA WebLogic Server Cluster
More
Virtual Environments
VMware
Microsoft Virtual Server (Connectix)
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12. Virtual Environments – example: VMware
VMware ESX Server is VMware's virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing computing resources.
Virtual SMP support allows virtual machines to span multiple physical processors, enabling virtual machines to scale for resource-intensive and/or fault-tolerant enterprise applications.
VMware VirtualCenter provides customers a central point of control for virtual computing resources, and
VMotion technology enables live virtual machines to be migrated for dynamic load balancing and zero-downtime maintenance.
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September 18, 2018

13. Panel Member Presentations Questions and Answers
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COMPRESS YOUR POWERPOINTS TO THE OPTIMUM SIZE FOR SCREEN DISPLAY in Powerpoint 2002
Highlight any picture in the presentation (even the title image in the title master)
Right click on the picture and select Format Picture
Under the picture tab there is a button called Compress.  Click on the button.
In the Compress Pictures dialog box select Apply to All Pictures in Document and Change Resolution to Web/Screen
Click OK. Any possible picture optimization will be applied in a few seconds.
Click OK.
Use Save As to save the File under the same or a different filename
TO SAVE THIS AS A MASTER TEMPLATE ….
Use SAVE AS in the file menu and select DESIGN TEMPLATE (.POT) as the file type.
Save it to the APPLICATION DATA/MICROSOFT/TEMPLATES directory (should be presented by default)
From then on this Master template should be available to you for use in the Apply a design template/Available for Use section of the TASK PANE. Simply select it and you can bring in the page templates for use.
YOU CAN ALSO USE THIS TEMPLATE AS A REGULAR POWERPOINT FILE and simply delete unused files.
To keep final presentations as small as possible, it’s best to delete any and all page templates not used in the presentation before doing your final SAVE AS.
March 23, 2005
© 2004 Hitachi Data Systems

14. Blade Server Management Standards Overview John Harker Senior Product Marketing Manager Hitachi Data Systems
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COMPRESS YOUR POWERPOINTS TO THE OPTIMUM SIZE FOR SCREEN DISPLAY in Powerpoint 2002
Highlight any picture in the presentation (even the title image in the title master)
Right click on the picture and select Format Picture
Under the picture tab there is a button called Compress.  Click on the button.
In the Compress Pictures dialog box select Apply to All Pictures in Document and Change Resolution to Web/Screen
Click OK. Any possible picture optimization will be applied in a few seconds.
Click OK.
Use Save As to save the File under the same or a different filename
TO SAVE THIS AS A MASTER TEMPLATE ….
Use SAVE AS in the file menu and select DESIGN TEMPLATE (.POT) as the file type.
Save it to the APPLICATION DATA/MICROSOFT/TEMPLATES directory (should be presented by default)
From then on this Master template should be available to you for use in the Apply a design template/Available for Use section of the TASK PANE. Simply select it and you can bring in the page templates for use.
YOU CAN ALSO USE THIS TEMPLATE AS A REGULAR POWERPOINT FILE and simply delete unused files.
To keep final presentations as small as possible, it’s best to delete any and all page templates not used in the presentation before doing your final SAVE AS.
March 23, 2005
© 2004 Hitachi Data Systems

15. The well-managed blade system
Bus and Hardware I/O Standards
Distributed Environment Standards
Software Management Standards
Hi-Speed interconnect standards
Hardware Management Standards
Storage Management Standards
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September 18, 2018

16. Hardware Management Standards - IPMI
Intel’s Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a message-based hardware management interface implemented at the silicon level using a baseboard management controller, a small processor that sets up IPMI as a subsystem independent of the server's CPU or operating system. It enables remote monitoring, management and recovery capabilities, regardless of the status of the server.
IPMI defines a common interface to how vendors monitor their system hardware and sensors (temperature, voltage, fan, etc.), control system components (power, blades, etc.), log important system events (chassis intrusion, CPU performance, etc.), and to allow administrators to remotely manage and recover failed systems.
IPMI is promoted by Intel, Dell, HP, NEC and others
IPMI 2.0 offers enhanced security by adding SHA-1 for detecting changes to the data stream, AES for better encryption, and VLAN support for better traffic isolation. To improve remote monitoring, the specification also includes serial redirection over the LAN for remote viewing of an IPMI server's boot process, as well as use of emergency management consoles.
IPMI 2.0 beefs up blade system support in three ways. First, it reports on the status of blades while being hot-swapped, indicating whether the module is active or inactive, for example. Second, it monitors a secondary IPMI management bus that's commonly used in carrier-grade products built with Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA). Finally, it improves hacker and malware protection by restricting management capabilities to a given interface through a so-called "Firmware Firewall."
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17. Hardware Management Standards AdvancedTCA
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture
Developed as PICMG 3.x specs by PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group
Focused primarily on telecom, but potentially useful in other applications
Rapidly gaining traction in telecom
With recent ECN-001, has 160+ pages on platform management
Currently based on & extends IPMI v1.5 r1.1
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September 18, 2018

18. Hardware Management Standards - DMTF
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM).
CIM is a standard for a common information model that features object friendly data content format that can be expressed in XML.
DMI is a component instrumentation interface for workstations and servers.
SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) is the standard for management extensions to the BIOS interface on Intel-based architectures).
ASF (Alert Standard Format) which is an evolution of IBM and Intels Alert on LAN (AoL) standard for status and control of devices before an O/S is loaded.
DEN (Directory Enabled Network) standard so management services can use standard distributed directories (via LDAP).
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry standards organization developing management standards for enterprise and Internet environments, and the Blade Systems Alliance (BladeS), have entered into an alliance partnership where the two organizations will work to help strengthen and speed the implementation of DMTF's server management and utility computing standards
Other related standards incorporating the DMTFs work include SNIA-driven SMI-S, open source movement driven WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management) initiative and Microsoft's WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) standard.
© 2004 Hitachi Data Systems
September 18, 2018

19. Hardware Management Standards - SMASH
The DMTF has formed a new sub-group, called the Server Management Working Group which has released a new group of standards, dubbed Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH). SMASH is a collection of efforts aimed at enabling network managers to gather hardware and low-level software information up to the OS.
SMASH, like SMI-S, is based on and uses CIM
The standard creates a unified way remote administration software can perform tasks such as rebooting a machine, reconfiguring a storage subsystem, assigning an Internet address to a machine or updating system software
SMASH augments the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard, released by the DMTF in 1998.
SMASH includes a Command Line Protocol (CLP) for addressing and discovering CIM objects, as well as CIM models and profiles.
Working on the standard are Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun as well as Microsoft, Oracle, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
© 2004 Hitachi Data Systems
September 18, 2018

20. Microsoft’s WMX
Microsoft has pushed its own proposed management framework, code-named Web services for Management Extension (WMX). The framework describes a generic SOAP-based management protocol that reuses Microsoft's existing Web Service (WS) specifications and security models to support server management operations.
Microsoft positions WMX as complementary to SMASH, noting that after integrating feedback about WMX from DMTF members, Microsoft would propose WMX as a standard to the DMTF
There are concerns about overlap
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September 18, 2018

21. Software Management Standards
Software Management products for blades falls into a variety of categories such as:
change and configuration management;
image cloning and management;
provisioning;
application monitoring and control, and
policy-based management
At a low level a variety of standards exist and are used for these applications, such as the DMTF standards, SNMP and syslog, but at higher levels there is little standardization. Instead what may be most appropriate and is happening is for the major cross-platform management tools to add blade management capabilities.
So software management software is a key factor in differentiating among the vendors, for example (not complete list):
Egenera's Processing Area Network management software will provide the Epic and Oracle software with automatic backup and failover capabilities within the blade server chassis.
IBM’s IBM Director connects with IBM’s Tivoli management software for more expansive capabilities and IBM‘s Web Infrastructure Orchestration software, designed to automate data-center operations for its Intel-based BladeCenter servers running its WebSphere middleware, DB2 database, and Tivoli Storage Manager software.
RLX Technologies Control Tower XT software
HP's Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) server management package and HP’s Insight Manager which hooks into HP OpenView
Dell's OpenManage server management package.
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22. Distributed Environment Standards
The web services standards community (WW3, DMTF, Oasis) and the grid computing standards community (Globus) are standardizing on a common set of Internet based standards for distributed services (IPC, directory, security, data formats, events). These will be important for both remote management and for commercial application support.
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September 18, 2018

23. Thanks!
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COMPRESS YOUR POWERPOINTS TO THE OPTIMUM SIZE FOR SCREEN DISPLAY in Powerpoint 2002
Highlight any picture in the presentation (even the title image in the title master)
Right click on the picture and select Format Picture
Under the picture tab there is a button called Compress.  Click on the button.
In the Compress Pictures dialog box select Apply to All Pictures in Document and Change Resolution to Web/Screen
Click OK. Any possible picture optimization will be applied in a few seconds.
Click OK.
Use Save As to save the File under the same or a different filename
TO SAVE THIS AS A MASTER TEMPLATE ….
Use SAVE AS in the file menu and select DESIGN TEMPLATE (.POT) as the file type.
Save it to the APPLICATION DATA/MICROSOFT/TEMPLATES directory (should be presented by default)
From then on this Master template should be available to you for use in the Apply a design template/Available for Use section of the TASK PANE. Simply select it and you can bring in the page templates for use.
YOU CAN ALSO USE THIS TEMPLATE AS A REGULAR POWERPOINT FILE and simply delete unused files.
To keep final presentations as small as possible, it’s best to delete any and all page templates not used in the presentation before doing your final SAVE AS.
March 23, 2005
© 2004 Hitachi Data Systems