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【Editor’s Note】Management is a crucial safeguard for the healthy operation of IT systems, and different IT equipment has its own management systems. Especially in large-scale data centers, centralized management systems are necessary to operate and manage computing, storage, and networking equipment, enabling rapid response and handling of business changes, abnormal events, and continuous optimization. Previous articles in the “IP Navigation” series have often focused on “data center management,” but mostly emphasizing “network-centric” management. This article will broaden the perspective to the entire data center under the cloud computing environment, comparing and analyzing three operational management models one by one.
I. Drivers of Operational Management Transformation in Cloud Computing
In traditional data centers, devices at the infrastructure layer are connected through standardized interfaces and protocol interoperability, ensuring that the management systems for computing, storage, and network devices remain separate and independent (as shown in Figure 1). This allows different operations teams to continuously refine and deepen their respective management procedures according to their own business development and architectural evolution trends, meeting the ever-growing business demands of the data center.
