Design and Implementation of Cloud Server Remote Management System Based on IMPI Protocol

With the rapid increase in cloud computing applications and resource requirements, cloud server workload and complexity are increasing quickly, the architectures of cloud server system become more and more complex. Monitoring and management for the cloud computing system are becoming more and more difficult. Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol can be applied on traditional server management. However, massive CPU, network and storage resource bring great challenge to remote management of cloud server resource. By IPMI v2.0 specification and its extension, an efficient and scalability two-level remote management system for cloud server has been designed and implemented. This paper describes how to implement and extend IPMI protocol on the cloud server to manage and monitor massive resources in cloud server system efficiently.