Best practices for data centers
- 1. Data Centre Best Practices By Steve Amolo (WorldVision) and Gilbert Okebe(Computechltd) 7th June 2017 Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 2. Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 Hardware Performance Capacity Planning Security HA
- 3. 1. Hardware Performance Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 4. Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 •Ever growing business computing demands. •H/W Choice on Scale out/up approaches. •Benchmark Testing. •Performance Tracking. Performance per Watt TCO VS Factors to Consider !!!!!!!!
- 5. 2. HA Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 6. Unreliable donor engagement, leading to low fundraising. Loss of Reputation, loss of trust from partners. Slow intervention in time sensitive response programs. Brand Equity. Effects of IT services Downtime in NGOs Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 7. Power and Cooling, (On Premise) Network and cabling, Hardware Environment (Clustering with Virtualization) Virtual Environments (On Premise) OS and Application Services (On Premise and Cloud) Disaster Recovery. (On Premise and Cloud) The HA Stack Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 8. Identify and eliminate SPOFs at each layer of your IT architecture. Server and Application Clustering Technologies. Disaster Recovery Technologies. Specialized software configuration. Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 Factors to Consider to Improve on HA
- 9. 3.Capacity Planning Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 10. Current peak and off-peak data center resource utilization Identifying the depletion and obsolescence time frame of data center infrastructure Identifying data center resources that need to be increased, decreased or replaced in the future Planning for the design and implementation of newer resources or capacity changes as identified Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 Factors to Consider for Capacity Planning
- 11. • What are the capabilities of your current hardware ? • What is the anticipated growth in terms of Infrastructure? • What would be your future Needs vis a vis technology trends ? Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 Components to be considered for capacity planning
- 12. Capacity Planning Tools Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 • Microsoft - Capacity Planner for Hyper V, MAP Toolkit • VMWare Capacity Planner • Solar winds Virtualization Manager
- 13. 4. Security Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 14. Common Threats to Datacenters •DoS. •Breach of Confidential Information. •Data theft or alteration. •Unauthorized use of Compute resources. •Identity theft. Origin of Vulnerabilities •Implementation – Software and protocols flows, incorrect or faulty software design, incomplete testing, etc. •Configuration - Elements not properly configured, use of default, configurations. •Design – ineffective or inadequate security design, lack of or inappropriate implementation of redundancy mechanisms, etc. common source Problems: •Exploitation of Out-of-Date software. •Exploitation of software defaults. Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 15. • Physical Security. • Logical and Network Security. • Firmware Updates and patching. • Data Backup and Restore. • Incident Response Plan. • Data Security Framework Mitigate Data Center Security Risks Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017
- 16. Data Center Best Practices – NETHOPE AFRICA CHAPTER MEETING 2017 Thank You