Multi-service application fabric architecture

• US 10,148,740 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2016
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Wei, Zhen, Li, Xiaolong, Wang, Ke, Raman, Sridhar, Singh, Ram Pratap, Sundararaj, Ananth Inamti, Vitaldevara, Krishna, Kunda, Jagadeesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Keller, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US15/172,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20170353528A1
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

In representative embodiments, multiple cloud computing infrastructures, each having its own application and management fabric, coexist with in the same cloud computing infrastructure. This results in a cloud computing infrastructure where multiple management fabrics and application fabrics coexist to offer their own services and cross platform services. Each functions independently and also communicates with each other to offer high availability and disaster recovery. One application and management infrastructure is a host to the other application and management infrastructure. The hosted infrastructure accesses underlying fabrics through the host infrastructure. A resultant system comprises a common hardware fabric, a common runtime, and a service fabric comprising services from both the host and hosted infrastructures.

Claims

1. A computing system hosting multiple cloud computing infrastructures comprising:

a processor and executable instructions accessible on a machine-readable medium that, when executed, cause the system to perform operations comprising;

provide a common machine fabric layer comprising at least one service to control of physical assets in a datacenter;

provide an integrated service fabric layer comprising;

a host service fabric layer in communication with the common machine fabric layer, the host fabric service layer comprising a first set of services, the first set of services including at least one service related to business policy enforcement and a first group of services related to a first cloud service infrastructure, the first group of services utilized by services of a first customer fabric layer; and

a tenant service fabric layer providing a second set of services comprising a second group of services relating to a second cloud service infrastructure, the second group of services utilized by services of a second customer fabric layer; and

a third group of services related to the first cloud service infrastructure, the third group of services utilized by at least one service of the second group of services.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the second set of services access the common machine fabric layer through the first set of services.

3. The computing system of claim 1, further comprising a common runtime layer and wherein the host service fabric layer accesses the common machine fabric layer through the common runtime layer.

4. The computing system of claim 1, further comprising a common runtime and wherein the common runtime provides communication between the first set of services and the second set of services.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the common machine fabric layer provides two or more services selected from the group comprising:

supply chain management;

data center management;

rack management;

network management;

server management;

hardware resource management;

virtual resource management; and

lifecycle management.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the common machine runtime layer allows code to run side-by-side without being in the same depot, code base, or co-development model.

7. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, which, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

provide a common machine fabric layer comprising at least one service to control of physical assets in a datacenter;

provide an integrated service fabric layer comprising;

a host service fabric layer in communication with the common machine fabric layer, the host fabric service layer comprising a first set of services, the first set of services including at least one service related to business policy enforcement and a first group of services related to a first cloud service infrastructure, the first group of services utilized by services of a first customer fabric layer; and

a tenant service fabric layer providing a second set of services comprising a second group of services relating to a second cloud service infrastructure, the second group of services utilized by services of a second customer fabric layer; and

a third group of services related to the first cloud service infrastructure, the third group of services utilized by at least one service of the second group of services.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the common machine fabric layer provides one or more services selected from the group comprising:

supply chain management;

data center management;

rack management;

network management;

server management;

hardware resource management;

virtual resource management; and

lifecycle management.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 further comprising a communication channel between the host service fabric and the tenant service fabric.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the second set of services access the common machine fabric layer through the first or third set of services.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 further comprising a common runtime and wherein the common runtime provides communication between the first set of services and the second set of services.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein prior to making a state change, a service of the second set of services requests permission from a service of the first set of services.

13. A method for hosting a tenant cloud computing infrastructure within a host cloud computing infrastructure comprising:

providing a common machine fabric layer comprising at least one service to control of physical assets in a datacenter;

providing a common runtime layer, the common runtime layer in communication with the common machine fabric layer;

providing an integrated service fabric layer comprising;

a host service fabric layer in communication with the common machine fabric layer or the common runtime layer, the host fabric service layer comprising a first set of services, the first set of services including at least one service related to business policy enforcement and a first group of services related to a first cloud service infrastructure, the first group of services utilized by services of a first customer fabric layer; and

a tenant service fabric layer providing a second set of services comprising a second group of services relating to a second cloud service infrastructure, the second group of services utilized by services of a second customer fabric layer; and

a third group of services related to the first cloud service infrastructure, the third group of services utilized by at least one service of the second group of services.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second set of services only accesses the common runtime layer or the common machine fabric layer through the first or third set of services.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein prior to accessing the common runtime layer or the common machine fabric layer, at least one service of the second set of services requests permission from at least one service of the first or third set of services.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein the common machine fabric layer provides one or more services selected from the group comprising:

supply chain management;

data center management;

rack management;

network management;

server management;

hardware resource management;

virtual resource management; and

lifecycle management.