Datacenter As A Service : Unbreakable Setup

Introduction

With IT infrastructure moving towards the cloud it is possible to offer enterprise level data protection and high uptime guarantees at an affordable cost. In order to achieve this, the DAAS cloud computing solution has many layers of built-in redundancy features, creating an unbreakable setup.

Unbreakable storage

All data stored on the cloud is protected by our unbreakable storage setup. This self healing data storage system ensures that your data is always fully protected and available.

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Redundant networking

In order guarantee maximum availability to our clients’ applications running on the Cloud Units, we have multiple levels of redundancy in the provision of public and private connectivity to the virtual servers and desktops.

Each of our datacenters have multiple redundant internet connections into the DAAS cloud environments. The environments themselves have multiple connections to our redundant switching backbone.

The virtual servers are connected to virtual switches that are software based, meaning they can automatically fail-over should the underlying hardware fail. This, combined with the physical redundancy provides an enterprise level networking setup for our clients.

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Self healing

The DAAS cloud components are capable of automatically self healing any issues that might occur. For the Cloud Operating System (OS) that manages the whole cloud environment this means that every Cloud OS service is constantly monitoring itself and other services and will automatically be restarted on another node in case of a hardware failure.

For the DAAS storage and networking systems, the self healing capabilities have been explained above.

Automatic failover

Should one of your Cloud CPU nodes fail, the servers that were running on it will be automatically failed over to a spare CPU node within the same datacenter. This spare CPU node will use the exact same data as the original server, since the data is stored on our unbreakable storage system.

The spare CPU node is dedicated just as the original CPU node. This means that even during a failover scenario, your cloud will continue to work just as before.

Disaster recovery

The DAAS cloud system creates a snapshot of all servers and desktops every 15 minutes. This works as a primary backup function but can be extended with any existing backup solution.

These backups can easily be imported and exported, allowing you to remotely store your server images. In case of a disaster recovery scenario, these images could be quickly imported on to a DAAS cloud running in another datacenter, allowing for a comprehensive business continuity plan.

Solid state disks

Solid state disks present a major upgrade in performance compared to regular mechanical based disks. Every DAAS cloud CPU node has been equipped with a solid state disk to dramatically improve the virtual machine performance compared to other cloud setups. The solid state disks (SSD) are used as a cache on top of the unbreakable storage system, allowing for faster disk I/O then regular SAS or SATA drives.

More Information

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