Cloud Platform

Sangfor Cloud Platform (SCP) is an enterprise-grade cloud management platform that unifies infrastructure resource management, virtualization, cloud service delivery, and security capabilities. It enables organizations to build flexible private, hybrid, and managed cloud environments by providing a single pane of glass for managing heterogeneous resources, including Sangfor HCI, VMware vSphere, and public clouds. SCP simplifies IT operations through automation, multi-tenancy, and self-service portals.

Yes. SCP acts as a unified control plane beyond HCI, managing Sangfor HCI clusters, VMware vCenter clusters, and physical bare-metal hosts under one interface, with integration into AWS Cloud for heterogeneous public cloud management. For multi-site organizations, SCP also supports hierarchical management through an integrated Sangfor Cloud and SCP architecture, unifying operations across dispersed data centers or campuses under a single organizational structure and admin hierarchy.

Yes. SCP uses a three-level role model: Platform Administrator, Tenant, and Tenant User. Platform Administrators hold full control over resources, networking, and licensing. Tenants manage their own quota and users, requesting more as needed. Tenant Users manage only their assigned VMs. A self-service work order flow routes requests through tenant and admin approval, with automatic resource issuance once approved — built for enterprises, MSPs, and multi-department environments needing clean resource isolation.

Yes. SCP includes a built-in resource billing module supporting per-resource unit pricing across CPU, memory, and storage tiers. Administrators view full tenant and per-VM cost breakdowns, while tenants see their own usage and bills. Costs can be queried over any date range and exported to Excel for offline reporting. A Ceilometer module tracks real-time VM usage, polled every 10 minutes by the billing engine, with cost data refreshed hourly for near-live visibility.

Yes. SCP combines microservice, distributed, and cloud-native design for reliability at scale. Stateless services scale out with load balancing, while stateful services stay on dedicated nodes for consistency. In cluster mode, a master/slave model with synchronous replication ensures failover without data loss.

Yes. Powered by the Sangfor AIOps Engine, SkyOPS covers over 150 failure scenarios, predicting issues 7 to 30 days in advance, identifying them within 1 minute, and locating root causes within 3 minutes. Disk failure prediction reaches 90%+ accuracy using SMART attributes with deep-learning models, while memory failure prediction prevents over 90% of failures in advance. SkyOPS also flags idle VMs and recommends optimization based on usage trends.

Sangfor Cloud Platform, together with Sangfor HCI, provides an enterprise alternative to VMware virtualization environments. SCP delivers centralized cloud management, automation, self-service, and orchestration capabilities, while Sangfor HCI provides the underlying virtualization and infrastructure foundation.

Yes. SCP is positioned like VMware's vCenter — a manager for hosts and resource pools, giving centralized visibility and control across your infrastructure.

SCP supports two paths for organizations working with VMware:

1. VMware co-management: manage existing VMware hosts and resource pools alongside other hypervisors from a single console.

2. VMware migration: move workloads to Sangfor HCI through cross-hypervisor, agentless migration — with minimal disruption to existing operations.