Data center virtualization and visualization
The emergence of cloud computing has promoted growing demand and rapid deployment of data centers. However, data center operations require a set of sophisticated skills (e.g., command-line-interface), resulting in a high operational cost. In this research, to reduce the data center operational co...
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| author | Xu, Weida |
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| description | The emergence of cloud computing has promoted growing demand and rapid deployment
of data centers. However, data center operations require a set of sophisticated skills (e.g.,
command-line-interface), resulting in a high operational cost. In this research, to reduce
the data center operational cost, we design and build a novel cloud data center management
system, by leveraging the concept of 3D gamification. To this end, we implement
two types of functions, including multi-source data monitoring and data center visualization.
For data collecting, we build a suit of unified middleware to monitor and control
the three intrinsic subsystems in a data centre, including ICT, power and cooling. Our
system consists of three main parts, i.e., datasource adapters for information collection
over various subsystems in data center, a unified message bus for data transferring, and a
high-performance database for persistent data storage. For data visualization, we apply
data visualization techniques to overlay operational status upon a data center 3D model,
allowing the operators to monitor the real-time situation and control the data center
from a friendly user interface. We have successfully implement a light–weight mobile
application, together with a cloud-based service engine. Heavy-life computation tasks
(e.g., visual rendering, CFD emulation, etc) are offloaded from the mobile application
to the cloud engine. enabling mobility and ubiquity in data center operations. Our
application, owing to its intuitive user interface and visualization capability, renders its
potential wide adoption for a variety of user cases, ranging from data center operations,
marketing campaigns, staff training, and business decision. It potentially creates new
revenue streams for IT department. |
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| id | ntu-10356/66269 |
| institution | Nanyang Technological University |
| language | English |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/662692023-03-04T00:34:14Z Data center virtualization and visualization Xu, Weida School of Computer Engineering Centre for Advanced Information Systems Wen Yonggang DRNTU::Engineering The emergence of cloud computing has promoted growing demand and rapid deployment of data centers. However, data center operations require a set of sophisticated skills (e.g., command-line-interface), resulting in a high operational cost. In this research, to reduce the data center operational cost, we design and build a novel cloud data center management system, by leveraging the concept of 3D gamification. To this end, we implement two types of functions, including multi-source data monitoring and data center visualization. For data collecting, we build a suit of unified middleware to monitor and control the three intrinsic subsystems in a data centre, including ICT, power and cooling. Our system consists of three main parts, i.e., datasource adapters for information collection over various subsystems in data center, a unified message bus for data transferring, and a high-performance database for persistent data storage. For data visualization, we apply data visualization techniques to overlay operational status upon a data center 3D model, allowing the operators to monitor the real-time situation and control the data center from a friendly user interface. We have successfully implement a light–weight mobile application, together with a cloud-based service engine. Heavy-life computation tasks (e.g., visual rendering, CFD emulation, etc) are offloaded from the mobile application to the cloud engine. enabling mobility and ubiquity in data center operations. Our application, owing to its intuitive user interface and visualization capability, renders its potential wide adoption for a variety of user cases, ranging from data center operations, marketing campaigns, staff training, and business decision. It potentially creates new revenue streams for IT department. Master of Engineering (SCE) 2016-03-22T12:20:10Z 2016-03-22T12:20:10Z 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66269 en 82 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering Xu, Weida Data center virtualization and visualization |
| title | Data center virtualization and visualization |
| title_full | Data center virtualization and visualization |
| title_fullStr | Data center virtualization and visualization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Data center virtualization and visualization |
| title_short | Data center virtualization and visualization |
| title_sort | data center virtualization and visualization |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66269 |
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