In fact, the definition of Cloud Management Platform first from international authoritative Gartner, "Cloud Management Platform (Cloud Management Platform, CMP) is to provide the public Cloud, private and hybrid Cloud integration Management products, CMP ability includes mainly the service, provides the system image, metering and billing by the established strategy to optimize the workload, more advanced products and external enterprise Management system integration, including service directory, support the configuration of the storage and network resources, allowing through service governance in order to strengthen the Management of resources, and provides the advanced monitoring, improve performance and availability,"
This definition, cloud management platform to need to have the cloudy, self-service, billing, resource flexibility and service choreography, automated deployment and configuration of related resources, can be existing IT and enterprise management system integration service capabilities,
From the public cloud, private cloud and mixed cloud perspective, the cloud management platform in its, cloudy unified nanotubes, unified data center nanotubes, hybrid scheduling management of heterogeneous resources, as shown in the following diagram:
From the cloud infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS) cloud, the cloud management platform can realize uniform nanotubes for infrastructure resources, hybrid arrangements and scheduling of resources, implementation for unified management middleware services and database service and supply, shown in the diagram below:
The author himself since 2010 engaged in the design of cloud and research and development, there has always been a complex to cloud sublimation "IT as a Service", followed by the cloud management platform is a kind of "big cloud management platform" (i.e. the generalized cloud management platform) thinking, try to thinking with drawing (signal) is as follows:
Narrow cloud management platform mainly includes self-service, operations management, service directory and service, organization structure, etc.) of examination and approval, cloud operations management (monitoring, security, etc.) connecting the existing IT and enterprise management system, etc; And generalized cloud management platform (also the aforementioned "big cloud management platform") not only contains special tube part of cloud, the cloud resource management platform should also include the picture, the range of cloud resources through a unified resource adapter interface shielding the difference of all resources, supporting the upper service choreography and deployment,
At the same time, the author here would like to clarify two error:
Myth 1. IaaS providers is the cloud management platform ability
This widespread misunderstanding, the mentioned above X information on companies is IaaS providers, and the ability of itself is not to provide cloud management platform, the product is not entirely meet the characteristics of cloud management platform, ought to say, such companies basically meet the demand for resource management, implement the service directory and self-service, simple management and customer service IT management system integration, but in cloudy, mix, heterogeneous, multi-level, etc.) management, cross cloud service choreography, pricing and cost optimization of enterprise measure, etc. Are absent,
On the one hand, in addition to a complete IaaS platform itself should have to count the unification of the storage network resources nanotubes, scheduling and scheduling, shall also have the ability of part of the cloud management platform; , on the other hand, can manage IaaS cloud management platform itself, can also manage the PaaS and docking enterprise existing IT management system (such as 4 a, ITSM, monitoring, CMDB, etc.),
Myth 2. It is the cloud management platform
Gartner on December 1, 2015 published the "it Is Not a Cloud Management Platform" (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3173523), the paper analyzes the differences between it and the Cloud Management Platform,
There are a lot of people interpret it as the cloud management platform, outside a couple of reasons:
1) it is already a DE facto standard of open source cloud framework, influential, I do not know there are han, regardless of the wei and jin dynasty;
2) ability to ecological it itself, expanding the scope of, have the ability to the part of the cloud management platform;
3) the more it provider based on the secondary development, implements some characteristics of the cloud management platform,
I didn't mean to question the development of it, even prudent bullish on its expanding market share in the future, and also analyzed the ability of it, apply to the scene and disadvantages (see my book "why cloud computing is not necessarily save enterprise cost?" The second part points 5),
It in a heterogeneous resources nanotubes (support but not mature), cloud management, service choreography, measuring the billing, etc and cloud management platform ability requires a larger gap, many ability all have depth but need to be customized stage, and I will it as the cloud resource management platform, or the cloud resource management platform nanotubes one of the resource pool types (it management KVM virtualization),
So what is the cloud management manufactures in the world rankings? Its ability to provide what kind of?
Another famous evaluation institutions Forrester in early 2016 the answer, we can see the IaaS providers on behalf of VMWare and not in the position of the top,
This figure widely circulated, I go, it is worth mentioning that polysaccharide of data in cloud management platform provider partners RightScale leader position, and have a splendid,
RightScale with a simple architecture diagram summarizes their abilities:
RightScale cloud management platform by cloudy choreography for public cloud, private cloud, virtual and physical servers the unification of the nanotubes, resource scheduling, layout and management, and implement a service, based on the cloud management and analysis functions of cloud, to help enterprises to improve the efficiency of IT, to accelerate the application delivery, improve investment returns,
For a long time not write, edge, consciously saturated down, everyone's view,