With the development of cloud computing, cloud platform to build on the basis of computing resources, storage, networking, etc. gradually become very popular; and with the development of a variety of cloud platform technology route, multiple cloud cloud platform vendors began to appear in the enterprise IT market .
For businesses, in order to meet the cost, on-demand, privacy, compliance and avoid vendor lock-in and other purposes, often using multiple public or private cloud, which makes uniform resource built on top of a variety of cloud platforms enterprise IT management platform became just need.
Why companies need a cloud management platform (MSP)
With the popularity of cloud computing technology, more and more companies are in the cloud. The hybrid cloud architecture enables organizations to choose a more suitable cloud platform for different business systems.
Improve business continuity:
Cross-platform cloud disaster recovery and business continuity, to avoid the "put all our eggs in one basket," if a cloud platform downtime or other failure, the enterprise business system will not fall into a comprehensive halt the use of hybrid cloud architectures.
Flexible, fast capacity management:
Under hybrid cloud architectures, enterprises can increase quickly when needed from the public cloud or decrease computing resources, lack of supplementary private cloud capacity, without having to deal with short-term business peaks, take the cumbersome procurement process to purchase IT equipment.
Cost Control:
By using an appropriate combination of public and private cloud capacity building IT systems, companies can better manage and control IT costs. You do not have to deal with short-term business peaks, purchasing a large number of hardware devices, resulting in idle equipment.
But the public cloud, private cloud, virtualization and the growing complexity of the underlying infrastructure, it also brings new challenges for the enterprise, how to manage a number of different cloud platforms:
Management practices difficult to standardize and unify: different cloud platforms, the size of its management, monitoring indicators, operation and maintenance management practices are not the same, which bring greater challenges for hybrid cloud management personnel;
Different cloud platform technology, leading IT employees need to acquire more skills and knowledge: When you use the cloud, companies must ensure that they have the appropriate IT staff, can have configure, deploy and manage the skills required for its cloudy infrastructure ;
Internal private cloud, virtualized resources and external cloud platform resources, unified management and control is difficult to achieve from the enterprise level;
With the development of business, business requirements will be increasingly high agility, as IT continues to expand the scale, the traditional manual work becomes large, low efficiency of service delivery resources will seriously hinder business agility;
For the enterprise cloud the issues and challenges facing the process of major companies need to build a sound platform for cloud management.
Popular Science: What is the cloud management platform
When Gartner defines cloud management platform, the cloud is divided into three layers:
Cloud resource layer: hardware resource virtualization, including server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization;
Cloud infrastructure layer: management provided by a single vendor cloud virtualization of resources, resource management platform to deliver cloud resources, and external to provide the appropriate API service;
Cloud Management: centralized management of public cloud, unified resource management platform for private and hybrid cloud environments. While the CMP is positioned in the layer of product
CMP (Cloud management platforms, cloud management platform) is a managed public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments integrated products that enable enterprise organizations to unify management services and resources cloudy.
Released in Gartner2019 report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Management Platforms" pointed out, CMP has the following seven key capabilities:
Resources and scheduling;
Cloud resource allocation and classification;
Service management;
Monitoring and analysis;
Cloud cost management and optimization;
Cloud migration and disaster recovery,
Authentication and security compliance.
Personally think that it should include a minimum range of cloud resource management, cloud service scheduling, cost-optimized cloud the three most fundamental aspects.
Cloud management platform, how to build?
From a technical analysis, one of the most basic cloud management platform architecture refer to the following chart:
By the middle of the orchestration engine and access cloudy, various resources connected to the bottom of the downward, upward to provide self-service, cloud management functions and services cloud. Therefore, in the core of the cloud management platform should focus on the following areas:
Cloudy access: integration and management of multiple heterogeneous infrastructure and resources; can best be achieved by way of plug-in, when the company introduced a new cloud platform, you can use a smaller cost for fast access;
Cloudy choreography: cross-platform scheduling arrangement, allowing users efficient and flexible use of cloud resources in different cloud platforms;
Self Service: a self-service interface, unified management of resource access and process configuration;
Cloud Management: cloud management module to achieve experience consistency cloud resource base of operation and maintenance management;
云分析：通过历史资源使用分析，提高资源使用率，优化成本；对于企业IT来说，省钱既是赚钱。
整合：打通企业CMDB、监控、自动化运维平台、ITSM流程管理，实现资源的全生命周期管理；对于CMP，一定不能做成一个烟囱系统，云资源管理和交付只是企业运维的起点，要具备强大的集成和被集成能力，才能为企业后续的一体化运维打下基础，而不是埋下巨坑。
嘉为蓝鲸云管理平台解决方案
嘉为蓝鲸云管理平台产品定位是面向企业IT基础架构及数据中心的资源运维管理，提供异构下的混合云资源的生命周期管理，包括云管理、云服务、云分析。功能架构设计如下：
架构分三层：
驱动集成层：云平台驱动器插件，新增云平台时，可通过插件开发的方式快速完成对接；资源交付的流程编排引擎，基于蓝鲸的标准运维编排引擎打造，实现流程编排的可视化拖拽，大大降低运维的门槛；IT工单系统集成适配器，可以实现企业内部的ITSM/OA等工单系统的快速对接。这一层主要解决多云快速接入，提供多云编排的能力。
管理功能层：6大功能模块。
云资源自助：用户可自助完成资源申请、软件安装；
云资源服务：即内置提供资源申请工单服务，又支持管理员自助编排发布新的云服务；
云资源管理：统一各个云平台的基础运维管理，为管理员提供一致的运维管理体验；
云资源分析：利用内置的分析模型和算法，从资源使用、容量、成本三个方面进行分析，并给出最佳资源配置，优化云成本；
组织管理：从企业的管理维度出发，适配不同部门和项目的需求，更好的落地云管理平台；
System Management: from the cloud platform itself is starting to provide a platform for configuration, operation and maintenance of the price of the model audit. This layer provides self-service, cloud management, cloud analysis of three basic modules.
Portal presentation layer: points of view and the role of large-screen display. Different user roles have different user interfaces, starting from the role itself, the role of custom proprietary interface.
Finally, the entire cloud management platform, based on the platform to build a blue whale, with a powerful multi-platform integration skills, natural and blue whales CMDB, monitoring, operation and maintenance automation platform seamless connectivity, providing a complete operation and maintenance of ITOM solutions for the enterprise.
Author: Su