Chapter 10. Data Center Optimization


The ultimate goal of the N1 Grid solution is improving data center optimization, which is operationally aligning the business services with the systems within. When services run out of storage, more space is automatically provisioned, based on the service level objectives (SLOs). The N1 Grid software control plane automatically determines that more system capacity is required to meet SLOs, so it provisions more systems.

This self-optimization is a reality with the N1 Grid software. To achieve self-optimization, the system must be architected so that it enables these changes to be made rapidly and automatically. As you read in earlier chapters, the N1 Grid software products provide much of this automation. This chapter focuses on the practical uses of these and other technologies.

Throughout this chapter, examples demonstrate the power of the flexible data center, strategically aligned to the business. This alignment is called strategic flexibility. Early product implementations of the N1 Grid architecture focuses on efficiencies that immediately improve ROI. Another way of increasing ROI is to flex the data center systems, based on business needs and conditions.



Buliding N1 Grid Solutions Preparing, Architecting, and Implementing Service-Centric Data Centers
Buliding N1 Grid Solutions Preparing, Architecting, and Implementing Service-Centric Data Centers
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