Authors:
Jonathan Eccles
1
and
George Loizou
2
Affiliations:
1
University of London, United Kingdom
;
2
University of London and European University Cyprus, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Cloud Architecture, Profiles, Policy Management, Virtualization, Abstraction Classes, Service Control.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Application Architectures
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Cloud Delivery Models
;
Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
;
Cloud Middleware Frameworks
;
Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
COTS and Cloud
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Architectures and Services
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Fundamentals
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Performance Development and Management
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Service Strategy
;
Service-Oriented Architectures
;
Services Science
;
Software Engineering
;
Technology Platforms
;
Virtualization Technologies
Abstract:
This summary describes a specific aspect of the work that has been done to virtualize the IT server estate of a company with a modern business architecture of about 3-400 servers. This results in a practical server environment with the same architecture and servers and integrated networking in an abstracted form by using sets of HP c7000 chassis units. This has been done by applying hypervisor-based Virtualization technologies to clusters implemented across constituent blades between sets of chassis units. This working system is enhanced by enabling specific HP c7000 operational capabilities together with separate virtualization technologies, which are consolidated in a single coherent design model that is enabled as a virtualized system implemented within one to three HP c7000 chassis units on a single site. Furthermore, this system is enhanced by enabling virtual L3 Ethernet via specific HP c7000 chassis operational capabilities which are consolidated in a single coherent design mo
de. The system is now enhanced to operate on a multiple site basis and also to use physical as well as virtual systems (e.g. servers, appliances, applications, networks, storage) in the same functional domain.
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