With the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, more and more enterprises and organizations are accelerating digital and intelligent transformation and constantly expanding the scale of their data center computing, storage and network equipment. According to IDC statistics, there are currently 600 ultra-large-scale data centers in the world, each with more than 5,000 servers. It is expected that by 2025, the number of ultra-large-scale data centers will exceed 890.
The continuous and rapid growth of data center scale has created huge market opportunities. However, as the number of IT equipment continues to increase, the complexity of the IT environment and operation and maintenance environment is increasing day by day. Any error may lead to data center system failure or even business interruption. , causing a huge impact on users. In this regard, Inspur Information has newly upgraded its physical infrastructure management platform ISPIM to provide unified intelligent management of the entire life cycle of servers, storage, and network equipment for cloud-edge data centers in the Internet, finance, communications and other industries, allowing data center equipment to operate throughout the entire process. Worry-free, ensuring the stable operation of user business.
There are many IT equipments, and data center operation and maintenance faces multiple challenges such as efficiency and stability.
Traditional data center operation and maintenance personnel have to perform a series of tasks such as equipment racking, system updates, and operation and maintenance. With the large-scale development of data centers, the number of servers has increased explosively, and there are many types of equipment. The occurrence of various types of failures is highly uncertain. Moreover, with the increase of data center equipment, the original extensive energy consumption operation and maintenance management also needs to be more refined. management.
First, there are many types of equipment, making unified management difficult. For example, a multinational IT customer of Inspur Information has multiple data centers in California and Malaysia. The server suppliers, models, and configurations are diverse, and the operation and maintenance personnel have a heavy workload and are error-prone. Therefore, how to uniformly manage and monitor tens of thousands or even millions of heterogeneous devices in multiple data centers across regions faces great challenges.
Secondly, various types of faults make data center security face uncertainties. The current failure rate of data centers is 1% to 5%. Although the probability of failure is low, it may still have a serious impact on the business stability of the data center . If fault location, rapid warning, and further processing cannot be effectively carried out, unplanned server downtime will be increased and have a significant impact on users.
At the same time, there is also the problem of high energy consumption costs in data centers. As the scale of data center equipment continues to grow, energy consumption costs are getting higher and higher, and energy consumption management has become part of the full life cycle management of IT equipment. However, the traditional server operation and maintenance model cannot conduct real-time monitoring and statistics of the power consumption of the server alone. It can only count the power consumption of the entire computer room (including air conditioning, lighting, servers, etc.) through the power supply equipment. The energy consumption management is coarse-grained.
Inspur Information ISPIM , a 360° intelligent housekeeper of data center equipment
Facing the new operation and maintenance challenges of data centers, Inspur Information has developed a complete server life cycle operation and maintenance solution ISPIM to help enterprise users uniformly manage servers, storage, networks and other equipment, improve operation and maintenance efficiency, and reduce operation and maintenance costs. Ensure the stable operation of the data center.
In response to the problem of multiple types of equipment in data centers with multiple users and difficulty in unified management, ISPIM can manage up to 400 types of machines through unified interfaces and protocols, and the number of equipment can reach up to 100,000 units. It is currently the largest data center server . Operation and maintenance platform. In terms of automated operation and maintenance management, the asset quick inventory function of the ISPIM platform supports rapid equipment inventory, automatic entry into the system, 3D panoramic inspection, unified reporting, etc. In a customer's data center system BMC, BIOS upgrade, software deployment update, etc., through the Inspur Information ISPIM platform, the customer was helped to shorten the deployment cycle of 3,500 devices from the originally expected dozens of days to seven days, and the operation and maintenance efficiency was improved. More than 450% , enabling rapid firmware/OS/software updates to ensure stable operation of the data center. At the same time, ISPIM provides a rich set of northbound API interfaces to provide customers with more flexible options for subsequent business application expansion.
In addition to large-scale data center operation and maintenance requirements, for small-scale deployment scenarios, operation and maintenance personnel do not need to set up separate cluster management software. They can use the Inspur Information ISPIM SaaS version to move the server system operation and maintenance work to the cloud , and can also enjoy Inspur Information server operation and maintenance experts. 360° service to realize remote hosting of data center servers. At the same time, operation and maintenance personnel can also perform out-of-band management and monitoring of the server through the mobile APP, automatically complete a quick health check of the server, and output a test report.
As the demand for IT infrastructure in data centers grows rapidly, the IT environment and deployment environment become more complex, and various potential failures make data center security face uncertainty. However, fault operation and maintenance management has evolved from the initial script operation and tool operation to platform operation and maintenance. It is approaching the human limit and is in urgent need of more intelligent and humanized operation and maintenance tools. The intelligent real-time warning function of Inspur Information ISPIM platform covers tens of thousands of server downtime cases , exhausting server CPU, hard disk, memory, and fault cases. It can provide real-time warning for non-downtime faults and reduce the risk of sudden server failure under high-load operation.
At the same time, ISPIM will perform real-time detection and isolation of faults during the boot process. Sub-modules such as CPU and storage will perform self-tests. If there are problems, they will be isolated in time. During the operation phase, the memory will be inspected and inspected in real time, and the motherboard and power supply will also be inspected. Set up cutting-edge technologies such as intelligent fault diagnosis, fault log analysis, and fault early warning, including fault handling capabilities such as Inspur Information's ISBMC , InService , and AIOPS . In addition, ISPIM's fault diagnosis and positioning accuracy is leading, with an accuracy of 95%, which is much higher than the industry average standard of 50%, improving data center fault operation and maintenance efficiency by 80%.
In order to optimize the energy consumption of data center equipment, Inspur Information ISPIM has designed real-time monitoring of data center energy consumption, which can collect the power consumed by servers during operation in real time, and comprehensively adjust and optimize based on data center temperature, humidity, air flow and other factors, and can dynamically manage single machines and data center power consumption, further optimize and balance server operating loads, improve the reliability of overall business operations, and save about 15% to 20% of energy consumption.
At present, relying on these advantages, Inspur Information ISPIM has gained wide recognition at home and abroad. It provides full-process worry-free operation and maintenance services for data centers of global Internet, finance, communications, IT, education and scientific research users to ensure data center business. Safe and stable operation.