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Business Application Software and Efficiency of Organizational Functions

(Aspects of Cloud Computing)

Submitted For the purpose of fulfillment of requirement

Of Deptt. Of IT

BY Manas Pandey 1st Year JKBS

Under Supervision of - Dr. Teena Saharan (Prof. Business Research Methods)

Contact/Mobile no: 9717421698 E-mail Id: manaspandey88@gmail.com manaspandey@live.com

Objective: The future aspects of the cloud computing gives the new computing era. It provides the infrastructure beyond the future aspect, gives the thoughts beyond the limit, there is no need of basic infrastructure. IT needs a better strategy. Cloud computing offers a new model that cuts through IT complexity by leveraging the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service. But cloud computing draws strength from forces that could propel it beyond the ranks of the also-rans.

Cloud Computing: Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet a. Cloud Computing Delivery Models Private cloud Community cloud. Public cloud. Hybrid cloud. b. Cloud Computing Service Models Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The Seven Standards of Cloud Computing: 1. World-class security Provision world-class security at every level. 2. Trust and transparency Provide transparent, real-time, accurate service performance and availability information. 3. True multitenancy Deliver maximum scalability and performance to customers with a true multitenant architecture. 4. Proven scale Support millions of users with proven scalability. 5. High performance Deliver consistent, high-speed performance globally. 6. Complete disaster recovery Protect customer data by running the service on multiple, geographically dispersed data centers with extensive backup, data archive, and failover capabilities. 7. High availability Equip world-class facilities with proven high-availability

infrastructure and application software.

Pros and Cons to Cloud Computing: Gather your Resources to Make an Informed Decision.
a. Hardware b. Infrastructure c. Virtualization

Cloud Computing Technologies:

Scope Of Cloud Computing: State clearly the questions for which answers are sought through this research. Define Develop further on the background material provided in the introduction and bring the State of art in the chosen area of research. Should clearly indicate the existing drawbacks and Why further research is required to eliminate the drawbacks. Emphasize, based on the current Status, the importance of the research problem identified. You can enumerate those technical challenges one has to address to solve the problem(s) posed herein to place emphasis on the Quality of the research work. Maximum one page, preferably half a page be allotted to this Section.

Business Model of Cloud Computing:

How the Cloud Is Transforming IT:

Yet many IT organizations arent quick enough on the uptake because their infrastructures are exorbitant to manage and too complex to easily adapt.

Cloud computing provides a vastly more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective way for IT to meet escalating business needs: IT as a Service. VMware offers you an evolutionary and practical path to this new model, with solutions that harness the power of the cloud while ensuring security and preserving the value of your existing technology investments.

What is Vmware?

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows , Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESi, are bare-metal embedded

hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operatin system.

Infrastructure Virtualization and Management:

Simplify your IT infrastructure as you create a more dynamic and flexible datacenter with VMware's proven server and datacenter virtualization solutions built on Vmware, Vsphere, and the industrys leading virtualization Platform.

Reduce costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware with server consolidation. Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter with VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Virtualize enterprise apps, including Oracle, Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint and SAP, and deliver the highest SLAs and top performance.

Use policy-based automation and ensure compliance and performance with a zero-touch infrastructure using the vCenter Product Family for virtualization management.

What is Virtualization? Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that one physical computer across multiple environments. Transform your Business with Virtualization:

Run multiple operating systems on a single computer including Windows, Linux and more. Let your Mac run Windows creating a virtual PC environment for all your Windows applications. Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware while increasing your server to admin ratio

Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and performance Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter

Improve enterprise desktop management & control with faster deployment of desktops and fewer support calls due to application conflicts.

How Does Virtualization Work? o The VMware virtualization platform is built on a business-ready architecture. Use software such as VMware vSphere to transform or virtualize the hardware resources of an x86-based computer including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controllerto create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a real computer.

Desktop Virtualization: You create a more flexible IT infrastructure so you can help your business respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities.

Streamline deployment and management by delivering desktops as a service. Virtualize Windows applications for easier OS migration as you package once, deploy everywhere.

Give secure remote access to teleworkers and temporary workers without sacrificing performance or security. Transform your Business with Virtualization Transform your Business with Virtualization

Transform your Business with Virtualization: VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT cost by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware Vsphere.

Run multiple operating systems on a single computer including Windows, Linux and more. Let your Mac run Windows creating a virtual PC environment for all your Windows applications. Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware while increasing your server to admin ratio

Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and performance Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter

Improve enterprise desktop management & control with faster deployment of desktops and fewer support calls due to application conflicts.

The Business Impact of Virtualization: Shift your focus from maintenance to efficiency and innovation. Help grow your business as you fully optimize financial resources throughout IT, shift human energy and conserve the Earths energy.

VMware Customers Move Beyond Server Consolidation to Maximize the Business Value of Virtualization.

Technical Virtualization Best Practices:

Security and compliance are paramount to successful virtualization. Our vShield line gives you betterthan-physical security, from the edge to the endpoint. Learn more about virtualization security.

Virtual networking uses physical networking features, standards and principles. VLANs let you scale your traffic types yet maintain complete isolation on the same physical networking hardware. Learn more about virtual networking.

Virtualizing storage enables high-performance access to shared storage resources and creates efficiency of storage arrays used. Learn more about storage management for virtual machines.

Enhance the performance of your applications by fully understanding best practices in deploying and optimizing a virtualized infrastructure. Learn more about virtualization performance.

Deploying Virtualization in Your Infrastructure: Business Impact of Virtualization


Cost Savings Energy Efficiency Cloud Computing

Datacenter Solutions

Server Consolidation Business Continuity Virtualization Management

Desktop Solutions: o sservices, is the outsourcing of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to a third party service provider. Typically, DaaS has a multi-tenancy architecture and the service is purchased on a subscription basis.

o In this delivery model, the service provider manages the back-end responsibilities of data storage, backup, security and upgrades. The customer's personal data is copied to and from the virtual desktop during logon/logoff and access to the desktop is device, location and network independent. Windows 7 Migration: o This document provides links and information for upgrading or migrating user content when deploying a new installation of Windows 7. Upgrade means you can install Windows 7 by inserting the Windows 7 DVD and following the instructions on your screen. When you use the Upgrade option, your files and applications are maintained on the computer and do not need to be reinstalled. The Upgrade option is available in Windows 7 Setup for some computers running Windows Vista, but it is not available for Windows XP. o You must migrate user content that you want to maintain when installing Windows 7 onto any computer running Windows XP. Migrate means that you save files and settings in a safe location, such as on a USB drive or a network share, prior to installing Windows 7 on your computer. When the installation is complete, you can move the files and settings from the safe location to the computer running Windows 7.

Vitalizing Enterprise Applications

Overview: Virtualization is the creation of substitutes for real resources, that is substitutes that have the same functions and external interfaces as their counterparts, but that differ in attributes, such as size, performance, and cost. These substitutes are called virtual resources, and their users are typically unaware of the substitution. Virtualization is commonly applied to physical hardware resources by combining multiple physical resources into shared pools from which users receive virtual resources. With virtualization, you can make one physical resource look like multiple virtual resources. Virtual resources can have functions or features that are not available in their underlying physical resources.

Exchange Virtualization: Consolidate multiple Exchange server roles and mailboxes to reduce infrastructure footprint by 5X to 10X. Maximize Exchange availability without the complexity of Microsoft clustering. Right-size Exchange infrastructure and scale your mailboxes dynamically to support increasing loads. Virtualization provides the following benefits:

Consolidation to reduce hardware cost:

Virtualization enables you to efficiently access and manage resources to reduce operations and systems management costs while maintaining needed capacity.

Virtualization enables you to have a single server function as multiple virtual servers.

Optimization of workloads:
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Virtualization enables you to respond dynamically to the application needs of its users. Virtualization can increase the use of existing resources by enabling dynamic sharing of resource pools.

IT flexibility and responsiveness:


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Virtualization enables you to have a single, consolidated view of, and easy access to, all available resources in the network, regardless of location.

Virtualization enables you to reduce the management of your environment by providing emulation for compatibility, improved interoperability, and transparent change windows.

When you think about applying virtualization to your current environment, you must think about consolidating logical resources rather than physical resources into a system designed to support server, storage, and network virtualization. By adding any of these virtualization technologies to your environment, you create an on demand, secure, and flexible infrastructure prepared to handle workload changes in your environment.

Oracle Virtualization: Oracle VM 3.0 is the latest release of Oracle's server virtualization and management solution. As companies focus on delivering complete solutions, virtualization can help them transform the data centermoving beyond server consolidation to improving application deployment and management. This application-driven virtualization is the fundamental underpinning of Oracle VM 3.0.

Easier to deploy and manage applications Four times more scalable than VMware Cost is lower Suitable for all data center workloads 90+ Oracle VM Templates available for enterprise software All Oracle software is certified

SAP Virtualization: In traditional landscapes, the SAP system is installed on a dedicated physical server. Calibrated to meet peak demand rather than average demand, these dedicated servers are seldom used to full capacity. This leads to a high rate of IT spend for both hardware and maintenance - even as your IT infrastructure remains underutilized. Virtualization technology addresses this problem.

SharePoint Virtualization: Virtualization in SharePoint farm is one of the key design factors that simplify server availability by providing number of additional servers that might not be available over physical server models, or solution become very expensive. Microsoft officially supports SharePoint farm in virtualized environment since mid 2007. The following virtualizations technologies are supported: Hyper-V, Virtual PC, Virtual Server and 3rd party providers like VMware. sOne of the key factors for virtualization is that performance of virtualized farm is competitive to the physical farm. Microsoft tests shows: - 7.2% less throughput on virtual Web roles with 8GB of RAM than a physical Web role server with 32GB of RAM; - 4.4% slower in the page response time on the Hyper-V Web front-end than the physical server.

Virtualize SharePoint Web Role: Web front-end servers are responsible for the content rendering and have comparatively lower memory requirements and disk activity than other roles, what makes them is an ideal candidate for virtualization.

Choose disk type for Query Role The query role is responsible for a search performed by users is a good candidate for virtualization. The disk type choice for this role depends on the size of propagated index and the rate of index propagation. The recommendation for the large indexes and the farm with the high rate of the updated information to use a physical disk volume that is dedicated for the individual query server, rather than a virtual disk file.

Consider using Index Role on physical server

The Index server role in a SharePoint farm is often the most memory-intensive role, what makes it less ideal candidate for virtualization. Virtualized Index server role might be appropriate for development environment, small farm or farm with small content usage. Take into account, that index can vary from 10% to 30% of the total size of the documents being indexed. For the large indexes (above 200 GB) consider using physical disk volume that is dedicated to the individual query server, rather than virtual disk. For large farms with big amount of crawled data use physical Index server role due to large memory requirements and high disk I/O activity.

Do not virtualize Database role SharePoint database role is the least appropriate role for virtualization in production scenarios, mainly due to the highest amount of disk I/O activity and very high memory and processor requirements. However, it is very common to see the SQL Server virtualized in test farms, quality assurance (QA) farms, and smaller SharePoint environments.

Do I need to virtualize Application role? The decision of virtualizations the application roles, such Excel Services and InfoPath Services, depends on the roles usage. Those roles can be easily virtualized, because they are similar to Web Roles and mostly CPU intensive. When necessary, those servers can be easily moved to dedicated physical servers.

Virtualized scenario sample The following picture demonstrates the common virtualized scenario of SharePoint Farm.

Common deployment scenarios for the SQL role in a SharePoint farm may have multiple farms, both physical and virtual, use a single database server or database cluster, further increasing the amount of resources consumed by the role. For example, in the picture above, the sample SharePoint environment illustrated maintains a two-server SQL cluster that is used by several virtual farms and one production farm.

Use proper number of CPU Do not use more virtual CPUs than physical CPUs on the virtual host computer this will cause performance issues, because the hypervisor software has to swap out CPU contexts.

The best performance can be realized if the number of virtual processors allocated to running guests does not exceed the number of logical processors (physical processors multiplied by the number of cores) on the host. For example, a four processor quad-core server will be able to allocate up to 16 virtual processors across its running sessions without any significant performance impact. Note that this only applies to sessions that are physically running simultaneously.

Use proper amount of RAM: Plan to allocate the memory on virtual sessions according the next rule divide the total amount of RAM in the server by the number of logical processors (physical processors multiplied by number of cores) in the host server. This will align allocated memory along with NUMA sessions. Otherwise it will provide performance issues. In some testing, a virtual SharePoint Web server role with an allocation of 32GB of RAM actually performed worse than a virtual server with an allocation of 8GB of RAM.

Plan to use physical drives

In virtual scenarios front-end Web servers or Query servers disk performance is not as important as it would be physicals servers of the Index role or a SQL Server database. A fixed-size virtual disk typical provides better performance than a dynamically-sized disk. If disk speed is a high priority, consider adding physical drives to the host computer. Add new virtual hard drive and map it to an unused physical drive on the host. This configuration, called a pass-through disk, is likely to give the best overall disk throughput.

Consider using hardware load balancing Hardware load balancing provides the best performance, comparing with the software load balancing. It offloads CPU and I/O pressure from the WFEs to hardware layer thereby improving availability of resources to SharePoint. Examples of Hardware: F5 BIG IP, Citrix Netscaler, Cisco Content Switch. Software load balancing examples are Windows Network load balancing, Round Robin load balancing with DNS. It is a trade-off between cost and performance. (Additional details are heres)

Be careful with snapshot feature on virtual servers Using snapshots for the backup might cause you troubles, because SharePoint timer service might be unsynchronized during the snapshot process, and once the snapshot is finished, errors or inconsistencies can arise. So, consider backups over the snapshots for the production environments.

Measure virtualized environment performance After you complete your virtualized environment installation and configuration measure how fast you environment operates and optimize it to the best performance. Measure the following parameters: 1) Processor performance \Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor(_Total)\% Total Run Time performance monitor counter. Results: <60% Utilization is fine, 60%-89% caution, > 90% significant performance degradation 2) Memory performance \Memory\Available Mbytes of the physical memory available to processes running on the computer, as a percentage of physical memory installed on the computer. Results: 50% is fine, 10% and below is critical 3) Disk performance \Logical Disk(*)\Avg. Disk sec/Read or \Logical Disk(*)\Avg. Disk sec/Write disk latency on the Hyper-V host operating system.

SQL Server Virtualization: In the last several years, and especially within the last couple, the biggest buzzword in IT has been virtualization. The spin has taken this form: Save money on servers, save money on power and there are no downsides to virtualizing your servers. Coming from marketing

people, I suppose two out of three accurate points aren't that bad. SQL Server virtualization can certainly save money on servers and on power. But if your server isn't a good candidate for virtualization, then there are some big downsides to it.

Fujifilm Virtualization: Fully virtualized for more than a year, Fujifilm is starting down the road to a private cloud. It hopes that a highly automated, fully virtualized, elastic and scalable environment will help the firm squeeze every dollar out of its data center operations.

Cost, efficiency and scalability also play a large role in this competitive and cost conscious market. Until recently, ensuring performance and availability in physical environments was not compatible with keeping costs down because it required adding hardware, increasing complexity, and, in larger environments, replicating SAN and HSM fabrics.

With VMware virtualization, Fujifilm can offer its customers the performance, reliability and scalability they need in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Testing shows that Synapse performs very well in a VMware virtualized environment, and scalability becomes simply a matter of deploying additional virtual machines when more capacity is required. For reliability, Fujifilm extends its existing DR and BC solutions by leveraging VMware technologies to eliminate planned downtime during system upgrades, ensure that each Synapse server has the resources it needs to perform well, and provide failover in the event of unexpected downtime.

Partner Solutions

Cisco and VMware Virtualization EMC and VMware Virtualization Dell and VMware Virtualization HP and VMware Virtualization IBM and VMware Virtualization Intel and VMware Virtualization AMD and VMware Virtualization Netapp and VMware Virtualization

Three layer solution:

VMware offers a 3-layered solution stack to supports your evolution to the cloud:

Cloud Infrastructure and Management. The foundation for your cloud, based on virtualization and the ability to unify private and public cloud resources with consistent security, compliance, management, and quality of service.

Cloud Application Platform. Enabling developers to rapidly build and run modern cloud applications while deploying on premises or off for maximum flexibility.

End-User Computing. Creating a modern, user-centric approach to personal computing, delivering secure access to applications and data from any device, anytime and anywhere.

Future Aspects: When we are fond of advance computing as well think abut the virtualization, the thought go to beyond the imagination. There is lot of opportunities to work without building infrastructure in initial there are some problems due to versioning of the IP (Internet protocol) address concept. Countries are using IPv6 infrastructure due to technological advancement but some where it is not possible to immediate enhancement of the technology. When the world opt the changes about infrastructure, the concept of Cloud has a good future because it reduce the cost as well as increase the connectivity over the world beyond the imagination.

Review: o In current time the IT based services demands , services deployment cost , scalability issues and many more constraints have paved the way for focusing on cloud computing. Cloud computing is the structure of central server resources distributed on the platform scalable environment to provide "on demand" computing resources. o In this research in detail the various structures of cloud computing are reviewed. The applications of these architectures are discussed for different areas of life. Also the different working domains of cloud computing architectures are summarized. The purpose of this research is to provide understanding to the students, professionals, developers and researchers about cloud computing. o Recently Apple updated their MacBook Air line to include the new Sandy Bridge CPUs, the i5 and the i7, as well as boosting the available RAM and storage capacity. The method for installing Windows 7 on the new MacBook Air models should work just as well as it did for the old models. I should point out that this article was originally published on November 17, 2010, and the Windows 7 installation on my MacBook Air 11 is still as stable and fast as it was when I first installed it. o VMware management solutions integrate with your existing system's management tools so you can use what you already have and get an integrated experience for physical and virtual machine management. Bibliography and References: DosLinux: Small linux distribution installed on an existing Dos system i.e. msdos, pcdos, opendos, and win95/98., . e2fsck: ext2 filesystem checker Included in tomsrtbt, . fdisk: Partition table editor Included in most linux distributions (e.g. tomsrtbt, Slackware), . ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/systems/linux/slackware/slakware/a14/util.tgz fips: Partition Splitter, . ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/system/installl/ format: Windows Partition Fromatter Included in Windows 95/98/NT, Microsoft. Ghost: Windows Partition Backup, Norton. http://www.norton.com/sabu/ghost/ Hardware Compatibility HOWTO: compilation of linux support experience what works, what doesn't, If the product manufacturer does not support linux, it may be several months before user experience is reported, . http://howto.linuxberg.com/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html

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