MIGRATION OF EXISTING COMPUTING SYSTEMS TO CLOUD COMPUTING SITES OR VIRTUAL MACHINES

• US 20130262390A1
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Mitkar, Amit, Pawar, Rahul S., Degaonkar, Sumedh P., Bhagi, Sri Karthik
• Granted Patent: US 9,461,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/649
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1446 Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• 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 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0846 based on copy from other elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0863 by rolling back to previous configuration versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0895 Configuration of virtualised networks or elements, e.g. virtualised network function or OpenFlow elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata

Abstract

Software, firmware, and systems are described herein that migrate functionality of a source physical computing device to a destination virtual machine. A non-production copy of data associated with a source physical computing device is created. A configuration of the source physical computing device is determined. A configuration for a destination virtual machine is determined based at least in part on the configuration of the source physical computing device. The destination virtual machine is provided access to data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device using the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device.

Claims

1. At least one tangible computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by at least one data processing device perform a method for migrating functionality of a source physical computing device to a destination virtual machine, the method comprising:

identifying a non-production copy of data and metadata associated with a source physical computing device;

determining a configuration of the source physical computing device;

determining or establishing a desired configuration for a destination virtual machine,

wherein the configuration is based at least in part on the determined configuration of the source physical computing device;

creating a virtual machine;

providing the virtual machine with access to data and metadata from the non-production copy of data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device,

wherein the data and metadata from the non-production copy includes application-specific data and metadata; and

modifying a configuration of the virtual machine based at least in part on the determined or established configuration for the destination virtual machine,

wherein modifying the virtual machine comprises modifying a configuration of the virtual machine to substantially match the determined or established configuration for the destination virtual machine.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising decommissioning the source physical computing device after migration is complete, wherein the source physical computing device is inoperable after being decommissioned, and wherein the non-production copy is a point-in-time snapshot copy.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the migration method is initiated in response to determining that the source physical computing device has lost some of its data redundancy protection or a disk drive, or the source physical computing device has been infected by a virus.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the method is initiated in response to determining that the source physical computing device has experienced an increase in frequency of errors or in response to determining that the source physical computing device has presented symptoms indicative of system instability.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising updating existing IP address mapping from the source physical machine to the destination virtual machine;

and, applying existing information management policies from the source physical machine to the destination virtual machine.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the virtual machine is created by repurposing an existing virtual machine, and further comprising using another snapshot to revert the virtual machine to an earlier point in time, wherein the virtual machine has a physical compatibility mode raw device mapped logical unit number (LUN).

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising performing information management operations on the production data of the destination virtual machine;

restoring or otherwise providing production data to the destination virtual machine from a non-production copy of the data; and

installing application binaries to the destination virtual machine based on applications determined on the source physical computing device.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein modifying the configuration of the virtual machine based at least in part on the determined configuration for the destination virtual machine comprises adjusting the configuration of the virtual machine to match the determined configuration using, at least in part, one-touch recovery techniques.

9. A method for migrating functionality of a source physical computing device to a destination virtual machine, the method being performed by a processor executing instructions stored in a memory, the method comprising:

determining a configuration of the source physical computing device;

determining a configuration for a destination virtual machine based at least in part on the configuration of the source physical computing device;

providing the destination virtual machine with access to data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device using a non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device; and

establishing or initiating the destination virtual machine based on the determined configuration for the destination virtual machine and the provided access to the non-production copy of the data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device.

10. The method of claim 9,

wherein the non-production copy of data associated with the source machine represents a snapshot copy of data and metadata associated with the source machine, and

wherein providing the destination virtual machine with access to data and metadata from the source physical computing device comprises mounting the snapshot copy of data and metadata at the destination virtual machine.

11. The method of claim 9,

wherein the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device comprises an auxiliary backup copy of data associated with the source physical computing device,

wherein the auxiliary backup copy is created using an existing backup copy of data associated with the source machine, and

wherein the auxiliary copy is periodically or continuously updated to reflect ongoing changes to the existing backup copy of data associated with the source physical computing device.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device is created in accordance with an applicable information management policy, and wherein the same applicable information management policy is applied to the destination virtual machine.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein determining a configuration of the source physical computing device includes determining physical hardware resources available to the source physical computing device.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein providing the destination physical computing device access to data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device comprises providing access to only a limited subset of data and metadata from the source physical computing device in accordance with an applicable information management policy.

15. A system for migrating functionality of a source physical computing device to a destination virtual machine, the system comprising:

at least one processor;

memory coupled to the at least one processor;

means for creating a non-production copy of data associated with a source physical computing device;

means for determining a configuration of the source physical computing device;

means for determining a configuration for a destination virtual machine based at least in part on the configuration of the source physical computing device;

means for providing the destination virtual machine access to data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device using the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device.

16. The system of claim 15,

wherein the non-production copy of data associated with the source machine represents a snapshot copy of data and metadata associated with the source machine, and

wherein the means for providing comprises means for mounting the snapshot copy of data and metadata at the destination virtual machine.

17. The system of claim 15,

wherein the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device comprises an auxiliary backup copy of data associated with the source physical computing device,

wherein the auxiliary backup copy is created using an existing backup copy of data associated with the source machine, and

wherein the auxiliary copy is periodically or continuously updated to reflect ongoing changes to the existing backup copy of data associated with the source physical computing device.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device is created in accordance with an applicable information management policy.

19. The system of claim 15, further comprising means for selecting one copy from multiple non-production copies of data and metadata associated with a source physical computing device.