This document discusses various cloud management mechanisms including remote administration systems, resource management systems, SLA management systems, and billing management systems. The remote administration system provides tools for administrators to configure cloud resources through usage and administration portals or self-service portals. Resource management systems help coordinate IT resources in response to management actions. SLA management systems monitor cloud service performance to ensure contractual QoS requirements are met. Billing management systems collect usage data to generate reports and invoices for cloud providers and consumers.

1. CLOUD MANAGEMENT
MECHANISMS
- Souparnika Padaki Patil
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Cloud Management Mechanisms

2. CONTENTS
• Remote Administration System
• Resource Management System
• SLA Management System
• Billing Management System
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3. INTRODUCTION
• Cloud management means the software and technologies designed
for operating and monitoring applications, data and services
residing in the cloud.
• Cloud management tools help ensure cloud computing-based
resources are working optimally and properly interacting with users
and other services.
• Cloud management typically involve numerous tasks including
performance monitoring (response times, latency, up-time, etc.),
security and compliance auditing and management, and initiating
and overseeing disaster recovery and contingency plans.
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4. REMOTE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
• The remote administration system mechanism provides
tools and user-interfaces for external cloud resource
administrators to configure and administer cloud-based IT
resources.
• Two primary types of portals created with the remote
administration system are:
1. Usage and Administration Portal
2. Self-Service Portal
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5. REMOTE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
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6. USAGE AND ADMINISTRATION AND
SELF-SERVICE PORTALS
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7. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• Resource management refers to techniques for managing
resources.
• The resource management system mechanism helps
coordinate IT resources in response to management
actions performed by both cloud consumers and cloud
providers.
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8. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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9. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARES
• Resource Guru
• Hub Planner
• Saviom
• 10,000ft Plans
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10. IEEE PAPER
Fahimeh Farahnakian, Rami Bahsoon, Pasi Liljeberg,” Self-adaptive Resource
Management System in IaaS Clouds”, IEEE 2016.
The focus of this paper is mainly on:
A self-adaptive resource management system that includes :
 PM Status Detection
 VM Placement Optimization
 VM Assignment
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11. SLA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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• The SLA monitor mechanism is used to specifically
observe the runtime performance of cloud services
to ensure that they are fulfilling the contractual
QoS requirements published in SLAs.
• The data collected by the SLA monitor is processed
by an SLA management system to be aggregated
into SLA reporting metrics.

12. SLA MONITORING STEPS FOR BETTER SERVICE
DELIVERY:
1. Transparent SLA monitoring: A prerequisite
2. Ask for third party monitoring
3. Ensure alerting mechanisms are in place
4. Ensure the vendor has effective backup mechanisms
5. Make certain the provider has an integrated ecosystem
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13. SLA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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14. SLA MONITORING TOOLS
 ExoPrise
 VMware Hyperic
 AppNeta
 BMC TrueSight Pulse
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15. IEEE PAPER
Xuan Liu, Feng Xu,” Cloud Service Monitoring System Based on SLA”, IEEE 2013
The important points which are covered in this paper are:
1. SLA and its key aspects
1. Service quality parameter
2. SLA sementics
2. Cloud service monitoring system structure and process
1. Cloud service monitoring system structure
2. Cloud service monitoring system processes
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16. BILLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• The billing management system mechanism is dedicated
to the collection and processing of usage data as it
pertains to cloud provider accounting and cloud
consumer billing.
• The billing management system relies on pay-per-use
monitors to gather runtime usage data that is stored in a
repository that the system components then draw from
for billing reporting and invoicing purposes
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17. PROCESS OF A BILLING MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
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18. CLOUD BILLING SERVICE PROVIDING
COMPINIES:
• Amdocs
• CGI Group
• Oracle
• Amazon Web Services
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19. REFERENCES
[1] Thomas Erl, Zaigham Mahmood and Ricardo Puttini, Cloud Computing: Concepts,
Technology & Architecture, Pearson, First Edition, ISBN No. 789332535923, 9332535922.
[2] http://cloudpatterns.org/mechanisms
[3] Self-adaptive Resource Management System in IaaS Clouds Fahimeh Farahnakian, Rami
Bahsoon, Pasi Liljeberg, Tapio Pahikkala, IEEE 2016
[4] Xuan Liu, Feng Xu,” Cloud Service Monitoring System Based on SLA”, IEEE 2013
[5] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2162241/cloud-computing
[6] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2552339/networking/CLOUD
COMPUTING.html
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