Data Center Management
Code
11166
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Informática
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
José Augusto Legatheaux Martins, Paulo Orlando Reis Afonso Lopes
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
68
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Knowledge:
Data Centres (DC): characterization and service classes
Assess and plan service levels towards performance and availability
Identify and evaluate HW and SW architectures that meet designated service levels
Identify/evaluate datacenter management tools
Identify and plan for lower energy consumptions (green datacenter)
Application:
Capacity planning to meet a designated service level
Design HW/SW solutions that meet designated scalability and fault tolerance targets
Monitor and manage DC resources, from infrastructure to applications and services
Define backup and disaster recovery policies
Develop written and oral presentation skills targeting distinct audiences (management, suppliers, IT staff)
Subject matter
Software architectures: monolithic to multi-tier. Adapt, interoperate, maintain and evolve.
Computer system architectures: from mainframe to clusters and farms. The CPU, memory and I/O subsystems.
Network infrastructures: Ethernet, Infiniband
Storage architectures and File Systems. Distributed block and file storage. Converged network infrastructures.
Isolation, consolidation and virtualization. Partitioning. Containers. The virtualization spectrum.
Cloud computing. The elastic, pay-per-use computer system. Virtualize everything: processor, memory, network, storage. Cloud service models.
Architecture design. Scale, performance and availability levels. Geographically distributed architectures.
Monitoring and analysis: Models, tools and benchmarks.
DC management. Policies, methodologies and tools. Dealing with heterogeneous HW and SW. Backup and recovery. Disaster recovery.
DC room: Organization, power and cooling.
Bibliography
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition Luiz André Barroso, Jimmy Clidaras, Urs Hölzle Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, July 2013,(doi:10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y201306CAC024).
Available: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y201306CAC024
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Selected papers from: "SPECIAL TOPIC: SYSTEMS WORK AT VMWARE". ACM OPERATING SYSTEMS review, Volume 44, Number 4, December 2010.
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Introduction to Storage Area Networks and System Networking, An IBM Redbooks publication, ISBN-13 9780738437132. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
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Tuning IBM System x Servers for Performance, An IBM Redbooks publication, ISBN-13 9780738433073. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
Evaluation method
Assessment Components:
- Two intermediate tests (2 x 30 % of the final grade)
- Group project (20% of final grade)
- Survey and report on guided lab assignments (20% of the final grade)
Notes about the "deliverables": Late deliverables will see their grades reduced at the rate of 1.0 grade per day.
General notes:
- Students must at least deliver the group project and survey and have an average grade ≥ 9,5;
- Intermediate tests are closed-book;
- All intermediate grades have a resolution of 0.1 grade.