A Paradigm Shift towards On-Premise Modern Data Center Infrastructure for Agility and Scalability in Resource Provisioning
Bharani i Dharan G · International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering · 2020
In this Modern Era, Datacenters are the backbone of today's enterprise businesses.To expand their business growth, an organization should first identify whether they are going to stay with on-premises or cloud infrastructure.In this paper we are going to explore the evolution towards on-premises Modern Data Centre (DC) from the basic classical, "siloed" traditional infrastructure.The old traditional data centre relies on more hardware and physical servers, needs more individual team to maintain, consumes more electricity, incurs more cost on buying machines for extra workloads when company grows.Maintaining the data securely is also a crucial task in siloed infrastructure because it needs more configuration and administration task which may lead to error-prone.The Next level of converged infrastructure in which the configurations are of pre-defined bundled templates which cannot be scaled further.The one more level-up the existing on-premise hyper-converged infrastructure in which CPU and storage will be coupled in one plane and network is in another plane and here when scalability is needed extra nodes to be created completely again is an additional overhead.In this paper the proposed Composable Infrastructure which supports all kinds of traditional and modern workloads with fluid pool of independent resource provisioning can be done intelligently through predictive unified API with more scalability, High availability and agility by means of the technologies like virtualization and containerization like the power of cloud infrastructure and services.Moreover, the software industry is highly fluid in this present decade to adapt the old software model to fit with evolving containerized Micro-services based applications which requires greater scalability and fast deployment.Hence the evolved on-premises composable modern infrastructure which is more dynamic in provisioning the resources with unlimited scaling is compared with other existing infrastructures with various parameters like Energy efficiency, High Availability, Cost and Agility.