INTERNET SERVER SYSTEM, METHOD OF CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINE OF THE INTERNET SERVER AND METHOD OF STARTING THE SAME

• US 20100042636A1
• Filed: 10/01/2008
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Lu, Ying-Chih
• Application Number:
  US12/243,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20100042636A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• 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: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

An internet server system for providing a virtual machine (VM) to a user, a method of creating a VM and an account, and a method of starting a VM via a webpage are provided. The internet server system includes at least one client apparatus, a computing server, a thin client management server, a storage unit, and a storage server. The method of creating a VM and an account includes: cloning a VM according to the request signal and logging in the VM with a preset account and a preset password; creating an FQDN for the VM; logging out the VM; and saving setting of the VM to a database server. The method of starting a VM via a webpage includes: connecting to a thin client webpage via a web browser; confirming an account and a password; starting the VM notifying a user to connect by a remote desktop connection.

Claims

1. An internet server system, comprising:

at least one client apparatus;

a computing server, for providing the client apparatus a virtual machine (VM);

a thin client management server, for managing the VM and determining a system source corresponding to the VM;

a storage unit, for storing an operation system corresponding to the VM; and

a storage server, connected to the storage unit, for managing an access authority of the storage unit,

wherein the client apparatus is connected to the computing server and the thin client management server via an external or an internal network, and the storage server is connected to the thin client management server and the computing server via an internal network.

2. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein a communication protocol applied between the client apparatus, the computer server, and the thin client management server comprises a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or an Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), and a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

3. The internet server system according to claim 2, wherein a communication protocol applied between the computing server and the thin client management server comprises an Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call (XML-RPC) communication protocol.

4. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein a communication protocol applied between the storage server, the thin client management server, and the computing server comprises an Internet Small Computer System Interface (ISCSI) protocol.

5. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the client apparatus comprises a thin client apparatus, a personal computer, or a notebook computer.

6. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the computing server comprises a plurality of blade servers.

7. The internet server system according to claim 6, wherein the thin client management server is adapted for adjusting a quantity of VMs assigned to each of the blade servers for computation, according to computation loads of the blade servers.

8. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the thin client management server is further adapted for managing a user account, transferring the VM, monitoring a status of the VM and connecting the VM to a thin client.

9. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit comprises a plurality of hard disks, and the hard disks are Serial Attached SCIS (SAS) interfaces, or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) interfaces.

10. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the thin client management server provides an RDP client environment, an ICA client environment, or an HTTP client environment to the client apparatus.

11. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the thin client management server comprises a virtual machine management module (conVirt(GUI)/xm).

12. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the VM is a Xen VM.

13. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the VM comprises a virtual disk space and an operation system.

14. The internet server system according to claim 13, wherein the operation system comprises a Microsoft®

Windows®

operation system, or a Linux operation system.

15. The internet server system according to claim 13, wherein the storage unit is a redundant array of independent disk (RAID) system.

16. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein when an address of the VM or a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the VM is varied, the VM notifies a domain name server (DNS).

17. The internet server system according to claim 1, wherein the storage server is an Internet Small Computer System Interface (ISCSI) server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server, or a Fibre Channel server.

18. The internet server system according to claim 1, further comprises:

a database server, for saving the account, the password, the FQDN, a configuration file name, and an internet address corresponding to the VM.

19. A method of creating a virtual machine (VM) and an account, comprising:

receiving a request signal;

cloning a VM according to the request signal and logging in the VM with a preset account and a preset password;

setting up a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) for the VM;

logging out the VM; and

saving a personal account, a personal password, the FQDN, and a configuration file name corresponding to the VM to a database server.

20. A method of starting a virtual machine (VM) via a webpage, comprising:

connecting to a thin client webpage via a web browser;

confirming a user account and a password;

creating or starting a virtual machine (VM), and creating or attaining a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) corresponding to the VM, when the user account and the user password are confirmed as being correct;

notifying a user to start a remote desktop connection by the FQDN of the VM;

connecting to the VM via a remote desktop client; and

logging in the VM with the user account and the password.

21. The internet server system according to claim 20, wherein when the user account and the password are failed to be confirmed as being correct, a logging error reminder is outputted.

22. The internet server system according to claim 20, wherein the step of starting the VM when the user account and the password are confirmed as being correct of the foregoing method further comprises:

directly retrieving the FQDN corresponding to the VM, if the VM corresponding to the user account has been already started; and

starting the VM, if the VM corresponding to the user account is not yet started.