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With the development of cloud computing, cloud platforms based on computing, storage, network and other basic resources are becoming more and more popular; with the development of a variety of cloud platform technology routes, cloud platforms of multiple cloud vendors begin to appear in the enterprise IT market.

For enterprises, multiple public or private clouds are often used to meet the goals of cost, on-demand, privacy, compliance, and avoiding vendor lock-in, which makes a unified resource management platform built on various cloud platforms become a rigid requirement for enterprise IT.

Why do Enterprises need Cloud Management platform (MSP)

With the popularity of cloud computing technology, more and more enterprises are on the cloud. The hybrid cloud architecture enables enterprises to choose a more suitable cloud platform for different business systems.

Improve business continuity:

Use hybrid cloud architecture to achieve disaster recovery and business continuity across cloud platforms to avoid "putting all eggs in one basket". If a cloud platform goes down or other failures, the enterprise's business system will not come to a complete standstill.

Flexible and fast capacity management:

Under the hybrid cloud architecture, enterprises can quickly increase or reduce computing resources from the public cloud when needed to supplement the insufficient capacity of the private cloud, without having to go through the tedious procurement process to purchase IT equipment in order to cope with the short-term business peaks.

Cost control:

By using IT systems built with an appropriate combination of public and private cloud capacity, enterprises can better manage and control IT costs. There is no need to purchase a large number of hardware equipment in order to cope with the short-term business peaks, resulting in idle equipment.

But the increasing complexity of public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, and underlying infrastructure also poses new challenges for enterprises, how to manage multiple different cloud platforms:

It is difficult to standardize and unify management norms: different cloud platforms have different management granularity, monitoring indicators and operation and maintenance management norms, which brings great challenges to hybrid cloud managers.

Cloud platforms with different technologies require IT employees to acquire more skills and knowledge: when using the cloud, companies must ensure that they have the right IT staff with the skills needed to configure, deploy and manage their multi-cloud infrastructur

Internal private cloud, virtualization resources and external cloud platform resources are difficult to achieve unified control at the enterprise level

With the development of business, enterprises will have higher and higher requirements for agility. With the continuous expansion of the scale of IT, the traditional manual operation workload and low efficiency of resource delivery services will seriously hinder the agility of the business.

In view of the main problems and challenges faced by enterprises in the process of cloud, it is necessary for enterprises to build a perfect cloud management platform.

Popular Science: what is the Cloud Management platform

When Gartner defines a cloud management platform, it divides the cloud into three layers:

Cloud resource layer: hardware resource virtualization, including server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization

Cloud architecture layer: a resource management platform provided by a single cloud vendor to manage virtualized resources, deliver cloud resources, and provide corresponding API services

Cloud management: a unified resource management platform that centrally manages public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. And CMP is the product located at this layer.

CMP (Cloud management platforms, Cloud Management platform) is an integrated product that manages public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, enabling business organizations to manage multi-cloud services and resources in a unified manner.

According to the report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Management Platforms" released by Gartner2019, CMP has the following seven key capabilities:

Resource provision and scheduling

Cloud resource allocation and classification

Service management

Monitoring and analysis

Cloud cost management and optimization

Cloud migration and disaster recovery backup

Authentication and security compliance.

In my opinion, its minimum scope should include three basic aspects: cloud resource management, cloud service scheduling and cloud cost optimization.

How to build a cloud management platform?

From a technical point of view, the architecture of a basic cloud management platform is shown in the following figure:

Through the middle multi-cloud access and orchestration engine, we can connect the underlying resources and provide the functions of self-service, cloud management and cloud service. Therefore, the core of the construction of cloud management platform should focus on the following aspects:

Multi-cloud access: integrate and manage a variety of heterogeneous infrastructure and resources; preferably in the form of plug-ins, fast access can be achieved at less cost when enterprises introduce new cloud platforms

Multi-cloud choreography: cross-platform scheduling, allowing users to use cloud resources efficiently and flexibly on different cloud platforms

Self-service: unified management of resource access and process configuration through the self-service interface

Cloud management: realize the experience consistency of cloud resource basic operation and maintenance management through the cloud management module.

Cloud analysis: through the analysis of the use of historical resources, improve the utilization rate of resources and optimize costs; for enterprise IT, saving money is making money.

Integration: open up enterprise CMDB, monitoring, automated operation and maintenance platform, ITSM process management, and achieve full lifecycle management of resources; for CMP, it must not be a chimney system, cloud resource management and delivery is only the starting point of enterprise operation and maintenance, and strong integration and integration capabilities are needed to lay the foundation for subsequent integrated operation and maintenance of the enterprise, rather than laying a huge hole.

Jiawei blue Blue whale king cloud management platform solution

The product positioning of the cloud management platform is for enterprise IT infrastructure and resource operation and maintenance management of data centers, and provides heterogeneous hybrid cloud resources lifecycle management, including cloud management, cloud services, cloud analysis. The functional architecture is designed as follows:

The architecture is divided into three layers:

Driver integration layer: cloud platform driver plug-in, which can be quickly completed through plug-in development when adding cloud platform; process choreography engine for resource delivery, which is built by standard OPS choreography engine based on PaaS, realizes visual dragging of process choreography, which greatly reduces the threshold of operation and maintenance; IT ticket system integration adapter can realize fast interfacing of ITSM/OA and other ticket systems within the enterprise. This layer mainly solves the problem of multi-cloud fast access and provides multi-cloud orchestration capability.

Management function layer: 6 function modules.

Cloud resource self-help: users can complete resource application and software installation by themselves.

Cloud resource service: it not only provides a built-in service to apply for a ticket for resources, but also supports administrators to arrange and publish new cloud services by themselves.

Cloud resource management: unifies the basic operation and maintenance management of each cloud platform, and provides administrators with a consistent operation and maintenance management experience

Cloud resource analysis: using built-in analysis model and algorithm, analyze from three aspects: resource usage, capacity and cost, and give the best resource allocation to optimize cloud cost.

Organizational management: starting from the management dimension of the enterprise, adapting to the needs of different departments and projects, and a better landing cloud management platform

System management: starting from the cloud platform itself, it provides functions such as platform configuration, price model maintenance and operation audit. This layer mainly provides three basic functional modules: self-service, cloud management and cloud analysis.

Portal presentation layer: role-by-role view and large screen display. Users with different roles have different user interfaces. Starting from the role itself, customize the proprietary interface of the role.

Finally, the entire cloud management platform, built on the PaaS platform, has strong multi-platform integration capabilities, and seamlessly connects with CMDB, monitoring and automation operation and maintenance platforms, which can provide enterprises with a complete ITOM operation and maintenance solution.

Author: Su Wen

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