METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MIGRATING APPLICATIONS TO A CLOUD-COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20180260241A1
• Filed: 08/24/2016
• Published: 09/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Persistent Systems, Inc. (Persistent Systems Limited)
• Original Assignee: Persistent Systems, Inc. (Persistent Systems Limited)
• Inventors: Khurange, Ashish
• Granted Patent: US 11,086,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1453 using de-duplication of the data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44568 Immediately runnable code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• 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 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

In one aspect, a computerized method includes the step of selecting a subset of servers of a set of servers to migrate to a specified cloud- computing platform. An administrator utilizes a dashboard view provided in a web browser to identify the subset of servers. The computerized method: includes the step of selecting a sequence of migration steps to manage a migration of the subset of servers to the specified cloud-computing platform, wherein the administrator utilizes the dashboard view to generate a plan for a server-data migration of the subset of servers. The computerized method includes the step of automatically determining a set of attributes of the subset of servers. The computerized method includes the step to automatically determining a set of dependency modules associated with the subset of servers to migrate and reinstall upon migration of the subset of servers.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for server migration comprising:

connecting to a set of servers;

identifying an application and mapping it to subset of servers of the set of servers to migrate to a specified cloud-computing platform, wherein an administrator utilizes a dashboard view provided in a web browser to identify the subset of servers;

providing a pre-capture operation and post-capture operation as a set of scripts to execute inside the server to be migrated upon the pre-capture operation and the post capture operation;

providing a sequence of migration steps to manage a migration of the subset of servers to the specified cloud-computing platform, wherein the administrator utilizes the dashboard view to generate a plan for migration of the subset of servers;

selecting a set of attributes such as CPU, memory, network settings, recovery zone/region in cloud, disk format, logical volume manager devices etc. of the subset of servers; and

automatically executing post-recovery operations as a set of dependency modules associated with the subset of servers to migrate and install upon migration of the subset of servers.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

Specifying programs/scripts with binaries for pre-post capture operations and post-recovery operations in the GUI for subset of servers.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 further comprising:

automatically pushing the programs/scripts and executing remotely on the subset of servers before and after the capture operation

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

automatically enumerating dependencies as per the applications running on the subset of servers.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising:

automatically recovering the subset of servers as per the application dependency in the specified cloud-computing platform.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 further comprising:

automatically pushing the programs/scripts and executing remotely as part of post-recovery operations on the recovered subset of servers on cloud-computing platform.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the set of dependency modules, comprises an anti-virus software program, a hypervisor tool, application license, operating system license and a cloud-computing platform monitoring tool.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the administrator specifies the disk format, thin-provisioned or thick-provisioned, of the subset of recovered servers.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the sequence of migration steps comprises:

capturing a set of images of the subset of servers with the image-capture utility pushed in the subset of servers;

replicating the set of images to a set of local storage appliances in a dedupe-storage format; and

replicating the set of images to a remote storage appliance in the cloud-computing platform.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the pre-capture operation comprises a stop monitoring tools operation.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the post-capture operation comprises a start monitoring tools operations.

12. A computer-implemented method for migrating server data to a cloud-computing environment comprising:

enabling an administrator to use a web browser connected to a migrator software application is add an image capture utility to a server and generate a plan for server migration;

capturing an image of the server with the image-capture utility;

replicating the image to a local storage in a dedupe-storage format;

replicating the image to a remote storage;

appliance; and

recovering the server in a target computing environment using the replicated image.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 further comprising:

generating a set of relevant scripts that provide the attributes and functionality of the server; and

storing the set of relevant scripts in an administrator'"'"'s computing system.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein after the server is in a recovered on the target environment, pushing the set of relevant scripts to the server in the recovered state from the administrator'"'"'s computing system.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 further comprising:

remotely executing the set of relevant scripts in the server in the recovered state.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, wherein the target environment comprises a cloud-computing environment or a remote server-system site or a remote hyper-converged infrastructure.