Cloud computing is a service oriented technology running on thousands of off-the-shelf computers connected by IP-based network.It offers a large pool of easily useable and accessible virtualized resources with fairly high performance and low cost.It is necessary for both ISP and ICP to make their business system running on the cloud platform.And it is also important to build a management system to operate and support this complicated system.This paper first introduces the importance of cloud management system and discusses its architecture and main functions
it also clarifies the key consideration in scalability design issues and how to implement a management system for a cloud computing system in practice.