SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150363181A1
• Filed: 09/02/2014
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Alberti, Enrica, Mariani, Gianluca, Secomandi, Antonio, Tomassi, Michele
• Granted Patent: US 9,304,752 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45575 Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45504 Abstract machines for programme code execution, e.g. Java virtual machine [JVM], interpreters, emulators
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]

Abstract

A computer implemented method for deploying, in a distributed virtual environment, a multi-component software product is disclosed. The method may include requesting and receiving product installation parameters, which may include virtual machine IDs corresponding to subsets of the product installation parameters. The method may also include copying software product installation files and parameters onto a first virtual machine, halting the first virtual machine, cloning the first virtual machine to a second virtual machine and setting virtual machine IDs on the virtual machines. The method may also include starting the virtual machines and identifying, based on virtual machine IDs, subsets of the product installation parameters. The method may also include deploying, based on subsets of the product installation parameters, the software product by installing first and second components of the software product on the first and second virtual machines, respectively.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for deploying, in a distributed virtual environment, a software product having multiple components, the method comprising:

accessing, in response to receiving a command to run a product installer on a first virtual machine, user-defined product installation parameters including;

a first virtual machine ID corresponding to a first subset of the product installation parameters; and

a second virtual machine ID corresponding to a second subset of the product installation parameters;

copying software product installation files and the product installation parameters onto the first virtual machine;

halting the first virtual machine;

cloning the first virtual machine to a second virtual machine;

setting a first virtual machine ID on the first virtual machine and a second virtual machine ID on the second virtual machine;

starting the first and the second virtual machines;

identifying, based on the first virtual machine ID, a first subset of the product installation parameters and based on the second virtual machine ID, a second subset of the product installation parameters; and

deploying, based on the first subset and the second subset of the product installation parameters, the software product, from the software product installation files, by installing a first component of the software product on the first virtual machine, and installing a second component of the software product on the second virtual machine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the product installation parameters include virtual machine synchronization parameters.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, in response to receiving virtual machine synchronization parameters, the starting of the first virtual machine occurs before the starting of the second virtual machine.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising starting, after the first virtual machine is started, an initialization task on the first virtual machine and starting a second virtual machine after the initialization task is completed.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

cloning the first virtual machine to a third virtual machine;

setting a third virtual machine ID on the third virtual machine;

starting the third virtual machine;

identifying, based on the third virtual machine ID, a third subset of the product installation parameters; and

deploying, based on the third subset of the product installation parameters, the software product, by installing a third component of the software product on the third virtual machine.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first virtual machine has a first set of allocated resources and the second virtual machine has a second set of allocated resources different than the first set of allocated resources.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a first set of processes started on the first virtual machine is different than a second set of processes started on the second virtual machine.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating, in response to receiving a command to create the first virtual machine, the first virtual machine.