Introduction to Software-Defined Data Center

Software-Defined Data Centers are the new era platform for centralizing organization operations. Housed in a secure in-house facility same as traditional data centers ensuring the data security and the platform remains up and running. SDDC methodology has been adopted by many organization for their current and future data center deployment. Organizations are moving from the traditional way of managing to the Software-Defined Data Center.

How Software-Defined Data Centers work?

In SDDC, everything is software-defined including three major components of the stack

• Storage
• Network
• Compute

Software-Defined Storage

Software-defined storage is an approach to which abstracts the management and orchestration layer from underlying physical hardware providing flexibility, scalability, reliability. Resource flexibility is paired with programmability to ensure storage adapts new demands automatically. Unlike traditional NAS or SAN system SDS is generally designed to perform on any standard x86_64 arch removing software dependency on proprietary hardware.

Software-Defined Networking

Networking is the major of the data center. The traditional way to managing network was complex and rigid for the vast network; the flow of system was from north to south. But the requirements have been changed requiring north to south and east to west traffic flow. Software-defined networking enables easier management as the control plane is programmable and manages all the networking hardware components reducing the effort of manual configuration of each element. The software-defined network focuses on the separation of the network control plane from the data plane.

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