A Software-Defined Datacentre (SDDC) architecture enables a fully automated, zero-downtime infrastructure for any application and any hardware, now and in the future. SDDC uses virtualisation technologies so all infrastructure services become as inexpensive and easy to provision and manage as virtual machines.
By virtualising a Datacentre, all of the resources of the system – including computing, storage, and networking – can be “abstracted” and represented in a software form.
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If you answered yes to any of these questions, introducing a Software-Defined Data Centre would greatly benefit your organisation.
In a software-defined data centre, policy-driven automation enables provisioning and ongoing management of logical compute, storage and network services resulting in unprecedented agility and efficiency, with flexibility to support hardware and applications for today and tomorrow. Benefits include:
SDDC technology helps attain new levels of infrastructure utilisation and staff productivity, substantially reducing capital expenditures and operating costs.
Enabling deployment of applications in minutes or even seconds with policy-driven provisioning that dynamically matches resources to continually changing workloads and business demands.
Driving right availability, security and compliance for every application via automated business continuity, policy-based governance and virtualisation-aware security and compliance.
SDDC can be leveraged as a private, hybrid or public cloud with infrastructure fully abstracted from applications, so they can run on multiple hardware stacks, hypervisors and clouds.
There are six major SDDC building blocks that Asystec can assist you with:
Network virtualisation combines network resources by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can each be assigned/reassigned to a particular server/device in real time.
Server virtualisation masks server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors and operating systems, from server users. The intention is to spare users from managing complicated server-resource details. It also increases resource sharing and utilisation, while maintaining the ability to expand capacity at a later date.
Ensures uptime with Performance, Health & capacity monitoring of your entire Hybrid cloud environment. Moving from a reactive monitoring tool to a proactive management tool that utilises predictive analytics to identify potential capacity or performance issues in your SDDC.
Storage virtualisation pools physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device managed from a central console.
Provides a self-service catalog for all IT services, from single micro-services, up to multi-machine application and infrastructure blueprints. These blueprints can be delivered consistently, embedding security policy, and deployed to on-prem or public cloud environments with 3rd party integrations and approval workflows.
Allows organisations to provide IT as a service to multiple cost centres and subsidiaries with a showback or chargeback model to ensure costs are accurately tracked and managed.
The dedicated Asystec cloud infrastructure solutions team can offer you SDDC expertise to transform your business. Ask our team how VMware Cloud Foundation, vSan, NSX, vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, and vRealize Business can help you deliver a fully automated Software-defined Datacentre, inclusive of assessments, professional services, managed services to ensure a successful implementation.
Data is expanding and unpredictable with more data, apps, devices and users, making it more challenging to protect and leading to fragmented data protection solutions.
Networking refers to the entire process of creating and using computer networks with respect to hardware, protocols and software, including wired and wireless technology.
Storage is the retention of information in an electronic format that is readily accessible from a technology perspective. The forms of storage have evolved from the early days of computers, where punch cards were away of holding programs and data in a non-volatile format.
Converged infrastructure (CI) combines compute, storage and networking as pre-tested and validated turnkey offerings. CI allows organisations to pool resources in centralised platforms eliminating expensive 1:1 business application silo’s.
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) streamlines the deployment, management and scaling of Datacentre resources by combining x86-based server and storage resources with intelligent software in a turnkey software-defined solution.
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