Multiple cloud and hybrid cloud management at the same time in SmartCloud Entry 2.4

With the support of cloudy and mixed clouds, users can better divide the resources of the cloud, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/9301.html "> Enhance efficiency, such as the cloud for testing and the cloud for production."

This article mainly introduces the management of cloudy and mixed clouds, as well as some other characteristics.

What is a cloud?

With the popularity of cloud computing, there are many kinds of definition for cloud, from the scope of application to see a private cloud and public cloud, from the provider to see, foreign Amazon, the domestic Huawei Sina, etc., from the virtual architecture, there are VMware, IBM and so on.

So what is the cloud for SmartCloud Entry?

From the perspective of SmartCloud Entry Management, the cloud is a managed and working vcenter or IBM System Director/vmcontrol that is hidden behind, and needs to be provided to SmartCloud Entry is just a username password and an IP address, for example, for VMware Cloud, SmartCloud Entry needs the username password and vcenter IP address, as well as the IBM Power Cloud, provided the username password and IBM The address of System Director.

The structure of cloudy and mixed clouds

From the image below, we can see that a SmartCloud Entry manages three heterogeneous clouds at the same time, and there is no limit to the physical location of these three heterogeneous clouds, as long as the network condition is good, which provides a possibility for managing the spread-zone-distributed cloud.

Cloudy Configuration Management

The browsers supported by SmartCloud Entry are ie8&9, Firefox, and Chrome. Below we use the Chrome browser to connect SmartCloud Entry servers to demonstrate how to add, update, remove multiple power Cloud, and VMware Cloud

Add multiple Clouds

The first step is to login to the SCE server with administrator privileges and switch to the revisit > clouds page as follows