Recently, H3C officially released a new version of its iMC Data Center Management Solution. Compared to the 1.0 version launched in 2010, the new iMC Data Center Management Solution (abbreviated as iMC DCM 2.0) delivers more outstanding performance in automation and virtualization management. As a data center management product designed for the “Cloud Era,” iMC DCM 2.0 provides higher-intelligence management assurance for resource-pooled cloud computing environments through a series of solutions in convergence, intelligence, openness, and security, helping users better manage cloud-era data centers.
The H3C iMC Data Center Management Solution is based on the H3C iMC (Intelligent Management Center), integrating various management technologies such as SNMP, RADIUS, NetStream, and ITIL. It is a user-oriented, open, automated, and intelligent data center management solution launched to meet the demand patterns of IT management in the context of cloud computing. With its excellent performance in helping users manage data center infrastructure, IP resources, services, and operations and maintenance, the H3C iMC Data Center Management 2.0 Solution received high praise from users immediately upon its release.
With the current development of cloud computing applications, new demands have emerged for data center management. The introduction of virtualization technology requires physical network configurations to provide on-demand management capabilities. In a cloud computing environment, to ensure the operation of business systems, the management system must be able to allocate resources “on demand” through automated scheduling. Therefore, innovating and refining features based on the management requirements of cloud-era data centers has become the key focus emphasized by the H3C iMC DCM 2.0 version.
As a data center management solution positioned for the cloud era, the iMC DCM 2.0 version boasts many advantages: it is more comprehensive, smarter, more open, more secure, and easier to use. Administrators only need one set of iMC software to manage various resources such as networks, virtual servers, and applications. The virtual server management function in the iMC DCM 2.0 solution can not only monitor virtual server resource usage but also intelligently migrate network policies following virtual machine migration. At the same time, the iMC DCM 2.0 solution can provide open APIs based on Restful technology for easy integration with upper-layer cloud computing systems. It also possesses comprehensive security control measures, supporting device configuration compliance checks and administrator operation audits, making user systems more secure.
Zheng Zhisong, Head of H3C’s Wireless and Software Product Department, stated that in the cloud computing era, resources such as networks, storage, computing,