APPLIANCE FOR SHARING INFORMATION OVER A WAN VIA A DISTRIBUTED P2P PROTOCOL

• US 20160323375A1
• Filed: 05/01/2015
• Published: 11/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vmware LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VMware, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: SHANLEY, Dave, RIEWRANGBOONYA, Wit
• Granted Patent: US 10,284,642 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/122 of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation [NFV]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1061 using node-based peer discovery mechanisms static access to replicated servers H04L67/1006; service discovery H04L67/51

Abstract

A pre-configured hyper-converged computing device for supporting a virtualization infrastructure includes one or more independent server nodes each comprising a CPU, memory, and storage. The device also includes a peer-to-peer communication agent, that when executed, provides peer-to-peer communication between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a wide area network, and enables a federated single sign-on to the wide area network.

Claims

1. A pre-configured hyper-converged computing device for supporting a virtualization infrastructure comprising:

one or more independent server nodes each comprising a central processing unit (CPU), memory, and storage; and

a peer-to-peer communication agent, that when executed, provides peer-to-peer communication between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a wide area network, and

a single sign-on agent, that when executed, enables a federated single sign-on to said wide area network.

2. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, further comprising:

a graphical user interface module for viewing metrics of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network via a graphical user interface, wherein said metrics are transmitted via said peer-to-peer communication.

3. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, wherein said peer-to-peer communication agent does not provide work load balancing between said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network.

4. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, wherein said wide area network is a non-federated environment.

5. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, wherein said peer-to-peer communication between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network does not have a single point of failure.

6. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, wherein each of said one or more independent server nodes comprises an auto-discovery agent.

7. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, further comprising:

a centralized management tool for managing a cluster of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a local area network.

8. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 7, wherein said centralized management tool comprises said peer-to-peer communication agent.

9. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1, wherein said one or more independent server nodes each comprises:

an auto-discovery agent, that when executed, provides auto-discovery of pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a local area network.

10. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1 is a two rack unit-four node (2U/4N) device.

11. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device of claim 1 is offered for sale as a single stock keeping unit (SKU).

12. A computing system for supporting a virtualization infrastructure comprising:

a first cluster of one or more hyper-converged computing devices in a first local area network, wherein said first cluster of said one or more hyper-converged computing devices comprises;

a centralized management tool for centrally managing said first cluster of one or more hyper-converged computing devices, and

a peer-to-peer communication agent, that when executed, provides peer-to-peer communication between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a wide area network, and

a single sign-on agent, that when executed, enables a federated single sign-on to said wide area network; and

wherein each of said one or more hyper-converged computing devices in said first cluster comprises;

one or more independent server nodes; and

an auto-discovery agent, that when executed, provides auto-discovery of other pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said first local area network.

13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said centralized management tool of said first cluster is not linked to other centralized management tools of other clusters of one or more hyper-converged computing devices in other local area networks such that workloads are unable to be balanced between said first cluster in said first local area network and said other clusters in said other local area networks.

14. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said one or more independent server nodes in said first cluster further comprises:

a graphical user interface module for viewing metrics of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network via a graphical user interface, wherein said metrics are transmitted via said peer-to-peer communication.

15. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said wide area network is a non-federated environment.

16. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said peer-to-peer communication between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network does not have a single point of failure.

17. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said one or more hyper-converged computing devices are a two rack unit-four node (2U/4N) device.

18. The computing system of claim 12, wherein said one or more hyper-converged computing devices of said first cluster are offered for sale as a single stock keeping unit (SKU).

19. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

an auto-discovery agent, that when executed by said processor, auto-discovers other computing devices in a local area network;

a peer-to-peer communication agent, that when executed by said processor, provides peer-to-peer communication between said computing device and at least one other computing device outside of said local area network via a network broker.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein said computing device is a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device.

21. The computing device of claim 19, wherein said auto-discovery agent auto-discovers other a pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said local area network.

22. The computing device of claim 19, wherein said peer-to-peer communication agent provides peer-to-peer communication between said computing device and at least one other pre-configured hyper-converged computing device outside of said local area network via a network broker.

23. The computing device of claim 19, further comprising:

a single sign-on agent that provides for a federated single sign-on to a wide area network.