METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY PLUGGABLE MECHANISM FOR NEW INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT

• US 20150113111A1
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Connectloud, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Connectloud, Inc.
• Inventors: Naseh, Zeeshan, Akhtar, Yusuf, Azizullah, Faisal
• Application Number:
  US14/472,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20150113111A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/079 Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/14 Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation G06F11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1484 involving virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2038 with a single idle spare processing component
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2048 where the redundant components share neither address space nor persistent storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0668 by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0895 Configuration of virtualised networks or elements, e.g. virtualised network function or OpenFlow elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities

Abstract

Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

policy for integrating updates in industry hardware or software with software defined cloud infrastructure;

and

dynamic adaptation of software defined cloud infrastructure to accommodate updated technology.

2. An apparatus, comprising:

dynamically pluggable software defined cloud infrastructure with open ended capacity; and

policy based algorithm for automation of software defined cloud infrastructure adaptation.