Conquer！ Three challenges of data center management in cloud era

Novell Senior Technical Advisor Shenzhi a speech on the theme "Next-generation http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13621.html" > Business Services Management Strategy and roadmap at the Cloud Computing Forum last year. , the three major challenges of data center management in the cloud computing era are described, and the corresponding solutions and products for Novell for these three challenges are presented.

Three challenges to data center management in cloud computing environment

Challenge one: How to manage resource allocation?

Shenzhigang pointed out that in the cloud computing environment, the data center's IT resources are highly virtualized, the resources need to be dynamically deployed, so it is also facing the problem of how to manage the resource configuration.

For resource allocation management issues, Shenzhigang describes the Novell BSM Configuration management database. According to the introduction, Novell BSM Configuration Management database can real-time, dynamic tracking the construction of cloud services of the various IT resources and its configuration, and automatically depict the relationship between the resource objects, at the same time, federated data integration technology, collect the information of each configuration items, in a visual manner to describe the structure of resource allocation.

Challenge two: How to locate the problem?

In the cloud computing environment, resource height virtualization, application and component is a many-to-many dependency, an application fails, it is difficult to accurately pinpoint which component is the problem, therefore, the problem of fault location is a cloud computing environment in the data center management of another major challenge. In response to this challenge, Novell provides an impact management of Novell BSM Business services, and it is reported that Novell BSM Business Services Impact Performance management employs a tree-like performance management model that targets business services and dynamically maps business services and IT resource configurations Accurately reflect the relationship between business services and IT environment, at the same time, the impact of IT service failures of intelligent analysis, to achieve business services to automate the root cause of the problem location.

Challenge three: How to evaluate the quality of service?

It resources in the era of cloud computing are generally provided to users in the form of services, and the customer is most concerned about the quality of service, therefore, how to evaluate the quality of service is an important aspect of data center management in the cloud computing era. "Assessing the quality of the service is not simply" good "or" bad ", Shenzhigang said," It must be evaluated in a "quantitative way", which means an agreement to evaluate the service level. He noted that Novell BSM's business service level management has developed a business based service water protocol that effectively monitors, evaluates, and automatically warns against service level agreements, generating service level history reports and trending analysis.

About BSM (Business Services Management)

From the service level, business service management is to target customers, service as the focus of the cloud environment assessment management, improve service quality, enhance end-user business experience.

Technically speaking, business service management is the dynamic Association of Business services to the underlying applications, workloads, and IT infrastructure components. Reduce operational risk, achieve impact management, and promote communication between people.