Three challenges! Cloud computing era data center

IT resources managed by the data center in a cloud computing environment are highly virtualized. We need to dynamically deploy the resources so that we also have to face the problem of resource management and how to solve such problems. The weight.

Challenge 1: how to manage resource allocation?

The IT resources managed by the cloud data center are highly virtualized and require dynamic deployment of resources, thus facing the problem of how resource allocation is managed.

For the management of resource configuration, NovellBSM configuration management database real-time and dynamic tracking of each IT resource and configuration of building cloud services, and automatically depict the relationship between resource objects, and federal data integration technology to collect the configuration items Information to visually describe the resource allocation organizational structure.

Challenge two: how to locate the problem?

In the cloud computing environment, a high degree of virtualization of resources, applications and components are many-to-many dependencies, an application fails, it is difficult to quickly and accurately locate which component has a problem, therefore, fault Positioning is another major challenge for data center management in the cloud computing environment. To address this challenge, Novell provides NovellBSM Business Services Impact Management.

NovellBSM Business Services Impact Performance Management uses a tree-based performance management model that targets business services. By dynamically mapping business services and IT resource configurations, it accurately reflects the relationship between business services and the IT environment, and at the same time, IT service failures Impact of intelligent analysis, business services to achieve the problem automatically locate the root cause.

Challenge three: how to assess the quality of service?

IT resources in the era of cloud computing are generally provided to users in the form of services, and the customers are most concerned about the service quality. Therefore, how to evaluate the service quality is an important aspect of data center management in the cloud computing era.

Of course, the quality of service can not be assessed simply by "good" or "bad". It must be evaluated in a "quantitative" way. That is, there is an agreement on the service level assessment. NovellBSM's Business Service Level Management developed a service-based service level agreement that effectively monitors, evaluates business indicators and automatically alerts when service level agreements are breached, as well as generating service level history reports and trend analysis.

About BSM (Business Service Management)

From the service level, business service management is based on customers, and services are the focus of cloud environment assessment management, improve service quality and enhance the end-user business experience. Technically, Business Service Management dynamically correlates business applications to underlying applications, workloads, and IT infrastructure components. Reduce operational risk, achieve impact management, and facilitate staff communication.