私有云架构 - 第二部分 设计原则

私有云架构 - 第二部分：设计原则 (Private Cloud Architecture - Part 2: Principles)

(译者评论：翻译到第二篇，感觉作者还是从一个比较从Rigid的传统讲究标准化IT环境出发，缺少一些Lean IT的思维。不过不管怎么样，我都会把这连载给翻译完的)

原贴： http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yasserabdelkader/archive/2010/12/20/private-cloud-architecture-part-2-principles.aspx

 

In the first part of this series (here and here ), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises.

In this post, I will discuss the main principles behind Private Cloud

上一章节讲述了私有云的基本概念，这一章节，我将会讲述私有云的设计原则.

 

Let’s agree first some terminology; the cloud promise is to provide computing as a utility. Let me explain, we need to reach a model where the user of the cloud service will use the computing power as if he uses electricity. When he needs it, he will find it… and he will get as much or as little as he wants. So, let’s name the user who uses this service as a consumer.

在深入讨论之前，让我们现就一些要点先达成共识：我们所谓的云计算就如同一些公共服务，我们的目标是让用户像用电一样用计算资源。当他/他需要的时候，他可以使用，他想用多少就用多少。让我们暂时把这些服务的使用者称之为"消费者"

 

So, the principles are:

所以基于以上共识，我们的设计准测标将会是：

 

Infinite Capacity: Users will see the service appears as if it has unlimited capacity. Consumers use the service as much or as little as he wants. To achieve that by not using the cloud model, you will need a great amount of resources and will end up - for sure - with an underutilized servers / infrastructure resources and will cost you a huge amount of money.

取之不竭的容量： 用户会看到这些服务以无限量的方式供给，消费者按自己需求获取资源。为了达到这个目的，你需要准备大量的资源，同事还需要有机制减少停止那些低使用率的情况发生。

 

Continuous Availability : the service will appear to be available when the consumer wanted it with no interruption of services. We will achieve this by providing a mature approach for governance and management in combination with resiliency at the application level and redundancies at the infrastructure level (computing, storage and network)

持续供给： 服务应当是持续而且没有中断的，在消费者需要的任何时候都可以提供。为了达到这一目的，我们将会采用两种比较成熟的方法去管理：应用层面的弹性和基础架构层面的冗余部署（计算资源、存储资源和网络资源）

 

Drive Predictability : Consumer should find the service consistence with the same quality and functionality any time they are used. From the service provider view, standardization will be the key for services and processes manageability.

保持可预测性： 对消费者来说，在任何时间，服务在质量和功能上应当是保持一致的。从服务提供者来看，IT服务的标准化将会是设计的关键

 

Service Provider’s approach to delivering infrastructure : the current data center approach for providing IT Services to business is on per need bases. This will lead to longer time to provision servers and services (more cost due to duplicate infrastructure).

提供服务的方法的改变 ：当前IT服务的提供方式是耗时和而又昂贵的，因为它每一个客户的需求都产生了部署，这即耗时又费钱（因为重复的基础架构）

 

Resiliency over redundancy : Normally, It provides high availability by H/W redundancy at all the layers of the stack by providing another H/W component that will start to serve the request if the original component failed. This comes at a prime cost (consider active/passive cluster were the passive server is just there doing nothing). In contrast, Private Cloud provides that through resiliency. The design depends on the fact that a failure will happen. It focuses instead on rapidly restoring the service through virtualization and real-time detection and automated response to health states that will allow the workload to be moved to another working node.

弹性比冗余更重要 ：通常我们会通过提供冗余硬件来保证高可靠性。但是我们也需要为此付出代价（大部分用来灾备的服务器都是闲置的）。相反的，私有云通过弹性机制来保证可靠性。假设异常发生时，这种机制更关注与通过虚拟化和实施探测来恢复服务，通过把任务转移到其他可工作的节点来自动响应和保证正常运行。

 

Minimize human involvement : by dynamically detect and respond to failure and elastically add or reduce capacity per the need

最小化人为干预 ：通过对异常的动态的监测和响应，以及硬件资源的动态增加或减少，（系统将会最小化人为的干预）

 

Optimization of resource usage By allowing resource sharing, optimization of resources usage can be achieved.

对资源利用的优化：资源共享和以促进资源使用的优化

 

Influence Good Consumer Behavior by using a cost per use bases, consumer will pay according to his actual use. For example, in the electrical utility world, consumers are charged a lower multiplier when utilization is below an agreed upon threshold. If they reach the upper bounds of the threshold, a higher multiplier will be used as additional resources are consumed.

影响和改良用户使用资源的模式 ： 通过基于单个用例的资源安排方式，消费者只需要付实际使用的费用。如同我们的日常用电，如果用电量在某个阈值之下，我们使用的较低单位电费，如果超过了那个阈值，我们会用更高的单位电费，因为你使用了更多的资源。

 

 

In the next blog I will discuss the concepts behind Private Cloud.

下一篇博客将会讨论私有云的一些概念。谢谢关注