REPLICATION OF VIRTUALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20160048408A1
• Filed: 08/07/2015
• Published: 02/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Onecloud Software, Inc.
• Original Assignee: OneCloud Labs, Inc.
• Inventors: Madhu, Suresh, Gilhooly, Sean, Van Vorst, Nathanael M., Keiser, Thomas, Stair, David, Chen, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US14/820,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20160048408A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1484 involving virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1662 the resynchronized component or unit being a persistent storage device re-synchronization of failed mirror storage G06F11/2082; rebuild or reconstruction of parity RAID storage G06F11/1008
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2023 Failover techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2025 using centralised failover control functionality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2048 where the redundant components share neither address space nor persistent storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2056 by mirroring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2094 Redundant storage or storage space G06F11/2056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2097 maintaining the standby controller/processing unit updated initialisation or re-synchronisation thereof G06F11/1658 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/301 where the computing system is a virtual computing platform, e.g. logically partitioned systems virtual machines G06F9/45533; logical partitioning of resources G06F9/5077
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45579 I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual middleware or OS functionality using virtual machines to implement generic software techniques for error detection or fault masking G06F11/1484
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers

Abstract

A management platform, which includes a plurality of virtual machines, wherein one virtual machine utilizes a first hypervisor and is linked to resources in a first virtual environment of an enterprise data center, and one virtual machine uses a second heterogeneous hypervisor and is linked to resources in a second virtual environment of a cloud. A user interface allows a user to set a policy with respect to disaster recovery of the computing resources of the enterprise data center. A control component replicates some of the infrastructure of the enterprise data center to the second virtual environment of the cloud computing infrastructure, controls the plurality of virtual machines to provide failover to the cloud computing infrastructure when triggered based at least in part on the user-set policy, and controls the plurality of virtual machines to provide recovery back to the enterprise data center after failover to the cloud computing infrastructure.

Claims

1. A management platform for handling disaster recovery relating to computing resources of an enterprise, the management platform comprising:

a plurality of virtual machines, wherein at least one virtual machine utilizes a first hypervisor and is linked to resources in a first virtual environment of an enterprise data center, and at least one virtual machine uses a second hypervisor and is linked to resources in a second virtual environment of a cloud computing infrastructure, wherein the first and the second virtual environments are heterogeneous and do not share a common programming language; and

a control component that abstracts infrastructure of the enterprise data center using a virtual file system abstraction layer, monitors the resources of the enterprise data center, and replicates at least some of the infrastructure of the enterprise data center to the second virtual environment of the cloud computing infrastructure based at least in part on the abstraction.

2. A management platform for handling disaster recovery relating to computing resources of an enterprise, the management platform comprising:

a plurality of virtual machines, wherein at least one virtual machine utilizes a first hypervisor and is linked to resources in a first virtual environment of an enterprise data center, and at least one virtual machine uses a second hypervisor and is linked to resources in a second virtual environment of a cloud computing infrastructure, wherein the first and the second virtual environments are heterogeneous and do not share a common programming language;

a user interface for allowing a user to set a policy with respect to disaster recovery of the computing resources of the enterprise data center; and

a control component that abstracts infrastructure of the enterprise data center using a virtual file system abstraction layer, monitors the resources of the enterprise data center, replicates at least some of the infrastructure of the enterprise data center to the second virtual environment of the cloud computing infrastructure based at least in part on the abstraction, controls the plurality of virtual machines to provide failover to the cloud computing infrastructure when triggered based at least in part on the user-set policy, and controls the plurality of virtual machines to provide recovery back to the enterprise data center based at least in part on the user-set policy after failover to the cloud computing infrastructure.

3. The management platform of claim 2, wherein at least some of the replicated infrastructure of the enterprise data center has an associated user-set policy and the at least some of the replicated infrastructure of the enterprise data center is stored in a storage tier of a plurality of different available storage tiers in the cloud computing infrastructure based at least in part on the associated user-set policy.

4. The management platform of claim 2, wherein the user-set policy is based on at least one of a recovery time objective and a recovery point objective of the enterprise for disaster recovery.

5. The management platform of claim 2, wherein the replicated infrastructure include CPU resources, networking resources, and data storage resources.

6. The management platform of claim 2, wherein additional virtual machines are automatically created based at least in part on monitoring a data volume of the enterprise data center.

7. The management platform of claim 2, wherein the control component monitors data sources, storage, and file systems of the enterprise data center and determines bi-directional data replication needs based on the user-set policy and the results of monitoring.

8. The management platform of claim 2, wherein failover occurs when triggered automatically by detection of a disaster event or when triggered on demand by a user.

9. A management platform for managing computing resources of an enterprise, the management platform comprising:

a plurality of federated virtual machines, wherein at least one virtual machine is linked to a resource of a data center of the enterprise, and at least one virtual machine is linked to a resource of a cloud computing infrastructure of a cloud services provider;

a user interface for allowing a user to set policy with respect to management of at least one of the enterprise data center resources and the resources of the cloud computing infrastructure; and

a control component that monitors data storage availability of the enterprise data center resources, and controls the plurality of federated virtual machines to utilize data storage resources of the enterprise data center and the cloud computing infrastructure based at least in part on the user-set policy, wherein at least one utilized resource of the cloud computing infrastructure includes a plurality of different storage tiers.

10. The management platform of claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of federated virtual machines performs a corresponding role and the federated virtual machines are grouped according to corresponding roles.

11. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the user-set policy is based on at least one of:

a recovery time objective and a recovery point objective of the enterprise for disaster recovery;

a data tiering policy for storage tiering; and

a load based policy for bursting into the cloud.

12. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the control component comprises at least one of a policy engine, a REST API, a set of control services and data services, and a file system.

13. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the plurality of federated virtual machines are automatically created based at least in part on monitoring data volume of the enterprise data center.

14. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the plurality of federated virtual machines are automatically created based at least in part on monitoring velocity of data of the enterprise data center.

15. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the control component further monitors at least one of data sources, storage, and file systems of the enterprise data center, and determines data replication needs based on user set policy and results of monitoring.

16. The management platform of claim 9, further comprising a hash component for generating hash identifiers to specify the service capabilities associated with each of the plurality of federated virtual machines.

17. The management platform of claim 16, wherein the hash identifiers are globally unique.

18. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the control component is enabled to detect and associate services of the plurality of federated virtual machines based on associated hash identifiers.

19. The management platform of claim 9, wherein the control component is enabled to monitor the performance of each virtual machine and generate a location map of each virtual machine of the plurality of federated virtual machines based on the monitored performance.

20. A management platform of claim 9, further wherein the control component comprises an enterprise data center control component and a cloud computing infrastructure control component,

wherein each system component comprises a gateway virtual machine, a plurality of data movers, a deployment node for deployment of concurrent, distributed applications, and a database node;

wherein a plurality of database nodes form a database cluster, and

wherein each gateway virtual machine has a persistent mailbox that contains a queue with a plurality of queued tasks for the plurality of data movers, and each deployment node includes a scheduler that monitors enterprise policies and manages the queue by scheduling tasks relating to movement of data between the enterprise data center database node and the cloud computing infrastructure database node.

21. A management platform of claim 20, wherein the deployment nodes are Akka nodes, the database nodes are Cassandra nodes, and the database cluster is a Cassandra cluster.

22. A management platform for managing computing resources of an enterprise, the management platform comprising:

a plurality of federated virtual machines, wherein at least one virtual machine is linked to a resource of a data center of the enterprise, and at least one virtual machine is linked to a resource of a cloud computing infrastructure of a cloud services provider;

a user interface for allowing a user to set policy with respect to management of the enterprise data center resources; and

a control component that monitors data volume of the enterprise data center resources and controls the plurality of federated virtual machines and automatically adjusts the number of federated virtual machines of the enterprise data center and the cloud computing infrastructure based at least in part on the user-set policy and the monitored data volume of the enterprise data center.