The growing deployments of cloud data centers and a range of cloud services, such as virtualization and elastic computing services, complicate the network structure and service logic of data centers. Efficiently managing cloud data centers has become a thorny issue that must be addressed.

In the cloud computing environment, user services must be better ensured. How can we provide on-demand cloud services? How can we quickly and automatically deliver cloud services? How can we ensure a consistent service experience without compromising service level agreements (SLAs)? Huawei's customizable cloud management solution gives the best answers to these questions and safeguards cloud service rollouts for customers.

Compared with management of traditional data centers, cloud management makes improvements on automated resource allocation, automated operation and maintenance (O&M), and service catalogs. Cloud management truly enables cloud computing as a service for users.

The following figure shows the Huawei cloud management solution.

• l Using the self-service portal, users can apply for and subscribe to cloud services.
• l The preset automation process provided by this solution helps quickly deploy services.
• l This solution monitors network traffic, application and transaction processing status, and quality of service (QoS) in real time. It also allows for automatic resource expansion or reduction based on specific policies.

Highlights of the Huawei Cloud Management Solution

The Huawei cloud management solution has three features: automatic, intelligent, and open. Based on these three features, this solution helps manage data centers efficiently and provide on-demand services to users.

Automatic

Faster and on-demand service delivery: Users order the desired services through a unified service catalog portal. Then, services are automatically delivered and charged. This automated process shortens the service provisioning from days to minutes.

• l Dynamic resource management: Cloud resources can dynamically adapt to users' changing service requirements. This ensures the normal operation of services while reducing service deployment costs.
• l Automatic discovery of network topology and automatic association of configuration: The network topology is automatically discovered, which makes it easy, quick, and efficient to deploy a cloud.

Intelligent

• l End-to-end service monitoring and analysis based on SLAs: Cloud management intelligently senses the service quality and ensures users' service experience by quickly locating and resolving faults.
• l Rich set of service reports: A range of service reports help users learn about the running status of cloud computing services and make right decisions.

Open

• l Open service interfaces: An open framework and a range of open interfaces make it easy to integrate with and customize service portals.
• l Easy to integrate with other systems: Open application programming interfaces (APIs) are easy to integrate with existing IT management systems.
• l Open architecture: The open architecture allows for integration with the popular heterogeneous cloud computing infrastructures in the industry.

Company A is the largest integrated logistic service provider in China. Their existing IT systems failed to meet business growth because they faced many issues, for example, complex O&M, high energy consumption, and low resource utilization. The company planned to use cloud computing technology to consolidate IT platforms and innovate IT services. After careful analysis, the company finally selected Huawei's cloud management solution. In this project, Huawei provided a secure, reliable, SLA-guaranteeing, and high-performance cloud management platform. The platform adopts an open, unified cloud platform architecture to achieve resource reuse, dynamic allocation of elastic resources, and disaster recovery functionality for data centers. This cloud management platform supports the largest number of clusters in the industry.

Huawei's cloud management solution helps the customer:

• l Improve resource utilization from 20% to 70%.
• l Accelerate the service rollout speed from several months to three weeks
• l Reduce the O&M personnel from 64 to 4 employees.
• l Improve the system reliability to 99.99%.



Customer Benefits

With Huawei's cloud management solution, the customer obtains the following benefits:



• l Increased revenue: Services are launched to market more quickly and customer satisfaction is improved. This ensures more streams of revenue.
• l Reduced costs: Services are automatically configured, thereby reducing operating costs.
• l Mitigated risks: The cloud management system intelligently senses the service quality, dynamically plans resources based on SLAs, and quickly locates and resolves issues.