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Question 5
Discussion of the requirements that Video Dev will need to consider for conducting remote
administration, resource management and SLA management for its proposed Micro
Service approach.
Cloud computing is a specific technical as a service usage model that uses
virtualization. The virtual machines are the major parts of cloud computing, which run as
certain independent machines into various networks in hypervisor (Rittinghouse & Ransome,
2017). It is being done after deploying cloud computing hosting enterprise servers within the
virtual machines over an array of different high end servers. A successful management of
cloud resources requires proper control and it helps in limiting the total accessibility to the
pool of every available resource. VideoDev Limited is a video and production development
organization that works for several clients in New Zealand and Australia. They have
considered to move few of their computer infrastructures into cloud. It brings the subsequent
concept of the agreement within customers and resource service cloud providers (Botta et al.,
2016). It is termed as service level agreement or SLA for restricting access to the provisional
resources.
Resource provisioning is a flexible on demand package, which could be negotiated
and also signed on the basis of SLAs within cloud providers and customers. These SLAs
allow the cloud providers for evading expensive consequences of SLAs, in which there exists
violations, optimization of customer applications’ performance and also managing resources
for reduction of costs (Ali, Khan & Vasilakos, 2015). The cloud based IT resources
eventually require to be effectively monitored, maintained and configured. VideoDev will
have to consider remote administration, service level agreement management as well as
resource management. However, there are few requirements, which are needed to be

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considered for bringing these changes in their organization. The details of these three
important requirements are as follows:
i) Remote Administration: The first and the foremost change in VideoDev would be
remote administration system (Wei et al., 2014). This particular mechanism would be
providing different user interface and tool for a specific external cloud resource administrator
for the core purpose of configuring as well as administering cloud-based IT resource. This
type of remote server administration could eventually form a specific portal for accessing the
various features of administration and management such as resource management, billing
system and service level agreement management. The various APIs and tools that are
provided by the system of remote administration are subsequently utilized by any particular
cloud provider for successful development and customization of online portal, which
provides cloud consumers with a major variety of different administrative control.
Remote administration can create two popular types of portals, which are being
created for resolving issues with the users. The first type of portal is usage as well as
administration portal that is a portal and the second type of portal is self-service based portal,
which is a vendor portal for allowing different cloud consumers in searching upgraded list of
different cloud services (Chen, 2014). VideoDev would have to include these requirements of
usage as well as administration portal or self-service portals. The portal of usage and
administration is required for configuring the already leased virtual server. VideoDev would
be able include remote administration by involving RDP for allowing the user with a GUI
regarding connection to any other system over the network connection. The respective user
can employ RDP client software.
ii) Resource Management: The second important and significant aspect that is
required to be included is resource management. The techniques of resource management