Virtual computing environments

• US 9,515,953 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2015
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kubisys, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kubisys, Inc.
• Inventors: Safari, Tigran, Acharya, Soubir, Urano, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Camquy
• Application Number:
  US14/698,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20150249619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1433 during software upgrading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1471 involving logging of persistent data for recovery
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3684 for test design, e.g. generating new test cases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3692 for test results analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3696 Methods or tools to render software testable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45583 Memory management, e.g. access or allocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45591 Monitoring or debugging support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• 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 2201/84 Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/14 Network analysis or design
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 : Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 : Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 : for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 : Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for discovering entities in a first portion of a data center network, examining information associated with the discovered entities to determine relationships that exist between pairs of entities in the first portion of the data center network, and generating a specification of the relationships that exist between pairs of entities in the first portion of the data center network based on results of the examining.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

analyzing a networked computing environment to identify one or more server applications present in the environment and, for each server application identified, to identify storage locations hosting relevant application data and to identify inter-application relationships;

establishing a time-fixed data image of at least some relevant application data for a candidate server application present in the networked computing environment; and

initiating a second instance of the candidate server application relying, at least in part, on the time-fixed data image.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

analyzing the networked computing environment includes accessing one or more of;

configuration files, registry entries, application meta-data, file-system meta-data, log files, and name servers.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

establishing a time-fixed data image includes creating a disk-level snapshot.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

establishing a time-fixed data image includes creating an operating-system level file copy.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

establishing a time-fixed data image includes signaling an instance of the candidate server application to create a time-fixed data image.

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

facilitating network communication between the second instance of the candidate server application and one or more other server application instances present in the computing environment.

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

determining the candidate server application by receiving input from a user.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores executable instructions to cause a machine to:

analyze a networked computing environment to identify one or more server applications present in the environment and, for each server application identified, to identify storage locations hosting relevant application data and to identify inter-application relationships;

establish a time-fixed data image of at least some relevant application data for a candidate server application present in the networked computing environment; and

initiate a second instance of the candidate server application relying, at least in part, on the time-fixed data image.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions to cause the machine to analyze the networked computing environment comprises instructions to access one or more of:

configuration files, registry entries, application meta-data, file-system meta-data, log files, and name servers.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions to cause the machine to establish a time-fixed data image comprises instructions to create a disk-level snapshot.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions to cause the machine to establish a time-fixed data image comprises instructions to create an operating-system level file copy.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions to cause the machine to establish a time-fixed data image comprises instructions to signal an instance of the candidate server application to create a time-fixed data image.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the stored executable instructions further comprise executable instructions to cause a machine to:

facilitate network communication between the second instance of the candidate server application and one or more other server application instances present in the computing environment.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the stored executable instructions further comprise executable instructions to cause a machine to:

determine the candidate server application by receiving input from a user.