METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPLATE DRIVEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN VIRTUALIZED SERVER SYSTEMS

• US 20190327144A1
• Filed: 04/24/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vmware LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VMware, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tembey, Priyanka, Panda, Atanu, Sridhar, Thayumanavan
• Granted Patent: US 10,855,537 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• 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 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0869 Validating the configuration within one network element
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5048 Automatic or semi-automatic definitions, e.g. definition templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/70 Virtual switches
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for template driven infrastructure in virtualized server systems. An example apparatus includes a catalog mapper to map a requirement and system information associated with a cloud computing environment including a virtual controller to a first tag including instructions to deploy a first virtual resource corresponding to physical hardware and identify a template including the first tag based on the mapping, a plan generator to generate a plan corresponding to the template including an order of execution of tags including the first tag to deploy virtual resources including the first virtual resource to the cloud computing environment, and a controller invoker to deploy a workload domain to the cloud computing environment to execute an application by executing the instructions associated with the first tag included in the template in response to determining that the virtual controller can execute the plan.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a catalog mapper to;

map a requirement and system information associated with a cloud computing environment including a virtual controller to a first tag including instructions to deploy a first virtual resource corresponding to physical hardware; and

identify a template including the first tag based on the mapping;

a plan generator to generate a plan corresponding to the template including an order of execution of tags including the first tag to deploy virtual resources including the first virtual resource to the cloud computing environment; and

a controller invoker to deploy a workload domain to the cloud computing environment to execute an application by executing the instructions associated with the first tag included in the template in response to determining that the virtual controller can execute the plan.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the requirement includes an availability requirement, a capacity requirement, a performance requirement, or a security requirement.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the system information includes at least one of an identification of a virtual resource included in the cloud computing environment, a version of the virtual resource, an availability of the virtual resource, or a usage of the virtual resource.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the tag includes a tag name field, a primary resource field, a primary resource version field, a tag data field, and a dependent resource field.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the dependent resource field includes a virtual resource, a version of the virtual resource, and instructions to deploy the virtual resource.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the template includes a template name field, a template version field, a template description field, a template type field, and a required template field.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the template includes a resource field, a resource version field, and a tag field including a set of tags representing instructions to deploy a virtual resource associated with the resource field.

8. A method, comprising:

mapping a requirement and system information associated with a cloud computing environment including a virtual controller to a first tag including instructions to deploy a first virtual resource corresponding to physical hardware;

identifying a template including the first tag based on the mapping;

generating a plan corresponding to the template including an order of execution of tags including the first tag to deploy virtual resources including the first virtual resource to the cloud computing environment; and

in response to determining that the virtual controller can execute the plan, deploying a workload domain to the cloud computing environment to execute an application by executing the instructions associated with the first tag included in the template.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the requirement includes an availability requirement, a capacity requirement, a performance requirement, or a security requirement.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the system information includes at least one of an identification of a virtual resource included in the cloud computing environment, a version of the virtual resource, an availability of the virtual resource, or a usage of the virtual resource.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first tag includes a tag name field, a primary resource field, a primary resource version field, a tag data field, and a dependent resource field.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the dependent resource field includes a virtual resource, a version of the virtual resource, and instructions to deploy the virtual resource.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the template includes a template name field, a template version field, a template description field, a template type field, and a required template field.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the template includes a resource field, a resource version field, and a tag field including a set of tags representing instructions to deploy a virtual resource associated with the resource field.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the virtual resources include the first virtual resource and a second virtual resource and the tags include the first tag and a second tag, the template including (1) the first virtual resource and the first tag including first instructions to deploy the first virtual resource and (2) the second virtual resource and the second tag including second instructions to deploy the second virtual resource.

16. The method of claim 8, further including generating a modified template by modifying the template by at least one of adding a tag, removing one of the tags, or modifying one of the tags.

17. The method of claim 16, further including:

validating the modified template by comparing the modified template to at least one of a validation rule or a validated template included in a template catalog; and

in response to validating the modified template, storing the modified template in the template catalog.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to at least:

map a requirement and system information associated with a cloud computing environment including a virtual controller to a first tag including instructions to deploy a first virtual resource corresponding to physical hardware;

identify a template including the first tag based on the mapping;

generate a plan corresponding to the template including an order of execution of tags including the first tag to deploy virtual resources including the first virtual resource to the cloud computing environment; and

in response to determining that the virtual controller can execute the plan, deploy a workload domain to the cloud computing environment to execute an application by executing the instructions associated with the first tag included in the template.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the requirement includes an availability requirement, a capacity requirement, a performance requirement, or a security requirement.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the system information includes at least one of an identification of a virtual resource included in the cloud computing environment, a version of the virtual resource, an availability of the virtual resource, or a usage of the virtual resource.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the tag include a tag name field, a primary resource field, a primary resource version field, a tag data field, and a dependent resource field.

22. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the dependent resource field includes a virtual resource, a version of the virtual resource, and instructions to deploy the virtual resource.

23. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the template includes a template name field, a template version field, a template description field, a template type field, and a required template field.

24. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the template includes a resource field, a resource version field, and a tag field including a set of tags representing instructions to deploy a virtual resource associated with the resource field.

25. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the virtual resources include the first virtual resource and a second virtual resource and the tags include the first tag and a second tag, the selected template including (1) the first virtual resource and the first tag including first instructions to deploy the first virtual resource and (2) the second virtual resource and the second tag including second instructions to deploy the second virtual resource.

26. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, further including instructions which, when executed, cause the machine to at least generate a modified template by modifying the template by at least one of adding a tag, removing one of the tags, or modifying one of the tags.

27. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 26, further including instructions which, when executed, cause the machine to at least:

validate the modified template by comparing the modified template to at least one of a validation rule or a validated template included in a template catalog; and

store the modified template in the template catalog when the modified template is modified.