BMC Could Life Cycle Managment an Overview.!
BMC-CLM CLOUD LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT AN OVERVIEW:
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management brings together the benefits of traditional IT management, including operational excellence, automation, and service delivery models, and merges them with the dynamic potential of cloud architectures. It provides the foundation for a strong, flexible, and valuable cloud infrastructure that supports IT operations and delivers exceptional service quality to the business.
FEATURES AND FUNICTIONALITY OF BMC CLOUD LIFE CYCLE:
KEY BENEFITS OF BMC CLOUD IN BUSINESS:
Following BMC products work together to deliver BMC Cloud Management Suit:
KEY CONSIDERATIONS WHEN BUILDING A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT:
Ensuring Scalability:
Cloud environments may begin reasonably small, but both the efficiency and the flexibility of the infrastructure will rapidly drive the growth of a cloud. As in the early days of virtualized environments, the ease with which cloud services can be requested and provisioned will increase demand on an IT environment, and thus drive accelerated growth. This growth represents IT’s improved ability to serve the business, but also creates a key consideration in architecting a private cloud: scalability.
The cloud being developed should be designed to scale to many times its initial estimates, and thus the management software used to build that cloud should be ready to support that growth.
FINALLY “WHY” BMC CLOUD “WHY-NOT” OPEN SOURCE OR OTHER VENDOR CLOUD TOOLS:
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management manages the dynamic nature of the cloud environment, accelerating provisioning, facilitating flexibility, and implicitly setting expectations with the business. What’s more, it helps you achieve tangible results while maintaining a structure, controlled — yet still dynamic — IT environment. One key role of cloud computing is to layer on top of virtualization an operational structure that is scalable, delivers consistent service, and addresses the needs of the business, as well as the needs of the technology team.
BMC brings together the benefits of traditional IT management, including operational excellence, automation, and service delivery models, and merges them with the dynamic potential of cloud architectures. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management delivers an operational model for the lifecycle of private cloud resources and utilization of public clouds in a hybrid model. It provides the foundation for a strong, flexible, and valuable cloud infrastructure that supports IT operations and delivers exceptional service quality to the business.
Where open source cloud tools will also deliver the same what BMC cloud does in business but, reliability and technical support will be the major concern while we consider about business continuity and quality service for customer.
When we speak about other vendor cloud tools they have a “VENDOR-LOCK IN” by which we have to depend on respective vendor products and supportive resources. Wherein BMC is a vendor neutral suit which can adapt or flexible with most of the common vendor products to deliver the cloud platform.
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management brings together the benefits of traditional IT management, including operational excellence, automation, and service delivery models, and merges them with the dynamic potential of cloud architectures. It provides the foundation for a strong, flexible, and valuable cloud infrastructure that supports IT operations and delivers exceptional service quality to the business.
FEATURES AND FUNICTIONALITY OF BMC CLOUD LIFE CYCLE:
- Support for different cloud infrastructure options: Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director, Openstack, IBM pSeries, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services, Savvis, Terremark etc.
- Support for different guest operating systems on virtual and physical systems: Redhat Linux, Microsoft Windows 2008 and 2012, IBM AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Enterprise Linux
- Self-service portal for business users: deliver complete, configurable services without IT intervention
- Management of the entire service lifecycle, from design to request, provisioning, monitoring, and decommissioning.
- Service blueprints enabling complete, configurable business services with low administrative overhead.
- Correct placement of delivered services according to compliance rules and technical requirements.
- Pricing for service catalog entries using multiple different metrics, including resource usage (memory, CPU, storage, and network), service configurations, and additional options (monitoring, compliance).
- Built-in support for integration with root-cause identification, performance, and capacity management.
- Integration with existing IT Service Management tools for seamless processes across existing and new cloud infrastructure, with native support for ITIL concepts.
- VENDOR-NEUTRAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT:
- To mitigate the risk of lock-in to a particular infrastructure platform, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management supports a variety of underlying platforms across hypervisors, servers, storage, and networks. BMC also supports third-party infrastructure provisioning tools, thus extending the flexibility of the cloud environment.
- Further, BMC works with public cloud providers to support the provisioning of those resources in a hybrid model, including Amazon Web Services and others.
- A unique feature of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is the network container functionality, which creates isolated and secure virtualized network zones within the cloud. Network containers are often used by organizations to separate cloud services from one another, supporting co-mingled, multi-tenant environments. They create isolated networking environments that can include security zones, firewalls, and load balancers. Once created, cloud services can then be provisioned within them.
KEY BENEFITS OF BMC CLOUD IN BUSINESS:
- Meet business needs by providing a flexible menu of self-service offerings.
- Design and deliver single and multi-tier cloud services using a model-based approach
- Optimize resource usage through intelligent, policy-based placement
- Prevent vendor lock-in by leveraging the product’s infrastructure-neutral design
- Deliver value quickly with out-of the-box support for physical and virtual, private and public clouds, including Amazon Web Services and vCloud Director
- Meet end-user expectations with ongoing performance and capacity management
- Manage IT costs by enabling show back or chargeback of cloud resource utilization
Following BMC products work together to deliver BMC Cloud Management Suit:
- BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
- BMC Atrium Orchestrator
- BMC ITSM Tools
- BMC Atrium CMDB
- BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite
- BMC Service Request Management
- BMC BladeLogic Network Automation
- Self-Service Portal
- Service Catalog
- Cloud Administration
- Orchestration
- Provisioning
- The cloud lifecycle starts with a user needing to request a service from the cloud. Requestors need a self-service portal by which they can request, augment, and retire their cloud services. Driving the portal is a service catalog that aggregates the offerings available, by role, to the users.
- Once a request is initiated, a workflow is invoked, either fully automated or with manual steps, depending on the request and on the organization’s needs. Once approved, the service is automatically provisioned.
- A cloud requires full-stack provisioning — server, storage, and network resources, as well as middleware, applications and other software elements — in order to exist. This provisioning can be in any environment (virtual, cloud, or even physical) and spans server, network, and storage resources. Once provisioned, the service enters its operational phase, where the normal day-to-day activities of performance, capacity, and compliance are managed.
- Once a cloud service is no longer needed, users will need a mechanism to decommission that resource.
- Good decommissioning systems operate on-demand, at the user’s explicit request, or according to a predetermined schedule.
Ensuring Scalability:
Cloud environments may begin reasonably small, but both the efficiency and the flexibility of the infrastructure will rapidly drive the growth of a cloud. As in the early days of virtualized environments, the ease with which cloud services can be requested and provisioned will increase demand on an IT environment, and thus drive accelerated growth. This growth represents IT’s improved ability to serve the business, but also creates a key consideration in architecting a private cloud: scalability.
The cloud being developed should be designed to scale to many times its initial estimates, and thus the management software used to build that cloud should be ready to support that growth.
FINALLY “WHY” BMC CLOUD “WHY-NOT” OPEN SOURCE OR OTHER VENDOR CLOUD TOOLS:
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management manages the dynamic nature of the cloud environment, accelerating provisioning, facilitating flexibility, and implicitly setting expectations with the business. What’s more, it helps you achieve tangible results while maintaining a structure, controlled — yet still dynamic — IT environment. One key role of cloud computing is to layer on top of virtualization an operational structure that is scalable, delivers consistent service, and addresses the needs of the business, as well as the needs of the technology team.
BMC brings together the benefits of traditional IT management, including operational excellence, automation, and service delivery models, and merges them with the dynamic potential of cloud architectures. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management delivers an operational model for the lifecycle of private cloud resources and utilization of public clouds in a hybrid model. It provides the foundation for a strong, flexible, and valuable cloud infrastructure that supports IT operations and delivers exceptional service quality to the business.
Where open source cloud tools will also deliver the same what BMC cloud does in business but, reliability and technical support will be the major concern while we consider about business continuity and quality service for customer.
When we speak about other vendor cloud tools they have a “VENDOR-LOCK IN” by which we have to depend on respective vendor products and supportive resources. Wherein BMC is a vendor neutral suit which can adapt or flexible with most of the common vendor products to deliver the cloud platform.
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