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Current Trends in <strong>Biotechnology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong><br />
Vol. 5 (3) 1353-1361 July 2011, ISSN 0973-8916 (Print), 2230-7303 (Online)<br />
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Fig. 2. Data center with virtualization<br />
1. To increase hardware utilization <strong>and</strong> reduces<br />
hardware requirements with server<br />
consolidation (also known as Physical-to-<br />
Virtual or P2V transformation).<br />
2. To reduce required data-center rack space,<br />
power cooling, cabling, storage <strong>and</strong> network<br />
components by reducing the sheer number<br />
<strong>of</strong> physical machines.<br />
3. To improve application availability <strong>and</strong><br />
business continuity independent <strong>of</strong> hardware<br />
<strong>and</strong> operating systems.<br />
4. To improve responsiveness to business needs<br />
with instant provisioning <strong>and</strong> dynamic<br />
optimization <strong>of</strong> application environment.<br />
Virtualization has brought an advantage to<br />
make data center more dynamic <strong>and</strong> providing<br />
performance, flexibility <strong>and</strong> capacity at a much<br />
lower cost, enabled the automatic <strong>and</strong> dynamic<br />
allocation <strong>of</strong> resources depending on workloads<br />
<strong>and</strong> business requirements. VMware technology<br />
has helped to replicate data from primary to<br />
secondary with Site Recovery Manager (SRM)<br />
thereby creating resiliency from a disaster<br />
recovery perspective as well as creating the<br />
snapshot <strong>of</strong> these virtual machines to replicate<br />
them to other sites (2).<br />
Data center applications: The CRO under study<br />
has a variety <strong>of</strong> applications deployed at its data<br />
center. Some <strong>of</strong> the key systems deployed have<br />
been described below.<br />
Enterprise management system: As the virtual<br />
IT infrastructure becomes more dynamic in order<br />
to meet on-dem<strong>and</strong> application delivery, the<br />
Enterprise Management S<strong>of</strong>tware (EMS) tools<br />
given below are used to control <strong>and</strong> manage the<br />
infrastructure at the CRO.<br />
SiteScope: At CRO, SiteScope (3) has been<br />
implemented that helps to monitor the<br />
availability <strong>of</strong> hardware along with operating<br />
system as well as the status <strong>of</strong> all applications<br />
deployed at DC <strong>and</strong> DR SiteScope is a Webbased<br />
agent-less monitoring solution designed<br />
to ensure the availability <strong>and</strong> performance <strong>of</strong><br />
distributed IT infrastructure. The real time data<br />
collected from SiteScope by monitoring the total<br />
infrastructure would be used for trend analysis<br />
Chavali et al
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