Four considerations for choosing a cloud management platform

How to transition from virtualization to cloud computing, how to choose cloud computing management platform? The Qin Guo-ming of the median cloud believes that the following four points are important criteria for consideration:

1. The stability, reliability and security of the system can be ensured. This is one of the most important metrics for it decision makers when choosing a cloud management platform. Cloud computing brings us increased it delivery and responsiveness, reduced IT management and maintenance costs, but these are predicated on the stability, security, and reliability of the cloud computing platform. The choice of cloud computing platform is how to achieve dynamic load balancing, whether it has automatic fault migration, virtual machine and storage hot standby, whether there is sufficient flexibility to respond to sudden demand.

2. Can be compatible with the current virtualization platform. Upgrading cloud computing with existing virtualization vendors is an option, but with cost and vendor lock-in issues, you can choose a cloud management platform that can be compatible with the existing virtualization infrastructure.

3. Complete lifecycle management. Now that the problem of virtual machine flooding is very common, IT managers are not clear which applications on which virtual machines, not timely recovery of resources, and so on, most applications can not define the service level of the virtual machine according to different requirements. Virtual machine lifecycle management, combined with workflow, not only helps IT managers to effectively virtual machines to solve the problem of virtual machines flooding, and business units can order and create virtual machines in order to reduce the workload of the system administrator and reduce the errors caused by human intervention.

4. Ease of management. An important advantage of cloud computing is reducing IT management costs. Users manage their own virtual machines, complete virtual servers and physical server views, not only to help users or administrators keep abreast of resource usage, but also to help administrators quickly define the type of failure and the cause of the failure.

The above four points are enterprises in the choice of cloud management platform, the main reference, enterprises should be based on their own virtualization and the actual management needs, choose the appropriate cloud computing management platform.

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