DEPLOYED APPLICATION FACTORY RESET

• US 20140068022A1
• Filed: 08/28/2012
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VCE Company, LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: KSHIRSAGAR, Mohit, MAHAPATRA, Akshaya, CHOUDRY, Faisal, OLSZEWSKI, David, KUMAR, Archana
• Granted Patent: US 9,170,845 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5022 Mechanisms to release resources
• 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: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0813 characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/085 Retrieval of network configuration; Tracking network configuration history
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0859 by keeping history of different configuration generations or by rolling back to previous configuration versions

Abstract

A method and apparatus for integrating a converged infrastructure platform in a data center is provided. The described apparatus configures the physical and virtual resources that run on the converged infrastructure to communicate with the rest of the data center. The described apparatus further enables a system administrator to rollback configurations of the physical and virtual resources of the converged infrastructure to restore the converged infrastructure to a factory state.

Claims

1. A method for installing an integrated computing platform into an existing computing environment, the method comprising:

configuring an integrated computing platform to communicate with at least one service running in an existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform, wherein the integrated computing platform includes an application having a plurality of functional components using a plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform;

restoring each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform to a state prior to the configuring the integrated computing platform to communicate with the service running in the existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the integrated computing platform is configured to enable communication between the functional components of the application and the service executing within the existing computing environment.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prior to the restoring, generating a snapshot of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform, wherein the snapshot represents a configuration state of the resources of the integrated computing platform.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prior to the restoring, determining a plurality of configuration operations performed on the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform during installation of the application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein restoring the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform comprising:

determining an inverse operation to undo a configuration change made to the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein restoring each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources comprises:

restoring a configuration state of the networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources based on a snapshot of configuration state.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtualized resources comprise a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), and wherein restoring each of the virtualized resources comprises:

responsive to determining a VM is derived from a VM template, deleting the VM and creating a new instance of the VM template.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtualized resources comprise a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), and wherein restoring each of the virtualized resources comprises:

responsive to determining a VM is not derived from a VM template, retrieving a snapshot of the VM from a repository of snapshots; and

reverting the state of the VM based on the retrieved snapshot.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the functional components comprise virtual machines executing application components of a virtual desktop infrastructure.

10. An integrated computing platform, comprising:

a plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources having an application with a plurality of functional components executing thereon;

a management server configured to;

configure the integrated computing platform to communicate with at least one service running in an existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform;

restore each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform to a state prior to the configuring the integrated computing platform to communicate with the service running in the existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform.

11. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the integrated computing platform is configured to enable communication between the functional components of the application and the service executing within the existing computing environment.

12. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the management server is further configured to, prior to restoring, generate a snapshot of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform, wherein the snapshot represents a configuration state of the resources of the integrated computing platform.

13. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the management server is further configured to, prior to the restoring, determine a plurality of configuration operations performed on the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform during installation of the application.

14. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the management server configured to restore the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform is further configured to:

determine an inverse operation to undo a configuration change made to the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform.

15. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the management server configured to restore each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources is further configured to:

restore a configuration state of the networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources based on a snapshot of configuration state.

16. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the virtualized resources comprise a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), and wherein the management server configured to restore each of the virtualized resources is further configured to:

responsive to determining a VM is derived from a VM template, delete the VM and creating a new instance of the VM template.

17. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the virtualized resources comprise a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), and wherein the management server configured to restore each of the virtualized resources is further configured to:

responsive to determining a VM is not derived from a VM template, retrieve a snapshot of the VM from a repository of snapshots; and

revert the state of the VM based on the retrieved snapshot.

18. The integrated computing platform of claim 10, wherein the functional components comprise virtual machines executing application components of a virtual desktop infrastructure.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed in a computing device, install an integrated computing platform into an existing computing environment, by performing the steps of:

configuring an integrated computing platform to communicate with at least one service running in an existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform, wherein the integrated computing platform includes an application having a plurality of functional components using a plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform;

restoring each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform to a state prior to the configuring the integrated computing platform to communicate with the service running in the existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the integrated computing platform is configured to enable communication between the functional components of the application and the service executing within the existing computing environment.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, further comprising instructions for:

prior to the restoring, generating a snapshot of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform, wherein the snapshot represents a configuration state of the resources of the integrated computing platform.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, further comprising instructions for:

prior to the restoring, determining a plurality of configuration operations performed on the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform during installation of the application.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the instructions for restoring the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform comprise instructions for:

determining an inverse operation to undo a configuration change made to the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the instructions for restoring each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources comprises instructions for:

restoring a configuration state of the networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources based on a snapshot of configuration state.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the virtualized resources comprise a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), and wherein the instructions for restoring each of the virtualized resources further comprises instructions for:

responsive to determining a VM is derived from a VM template, deleting the VM and creating a new instance of the VM template.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the virtualized resources comprise a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), and wherein the instructions for restoring each of the virtualized resources further comprises instructions for:

responsive to determining a VM is not derived from a VM template, retrieving a snapshot of the VM from a repository of snapshots; and

reverting the state of the VM based on the retrieved snapshot.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the functional components comprise virtual machines executing application components of a virtual desktop infrastructure.