SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN APPLIANCES OVER A WAN VIA A DISTRIBUTED P2P PROTOCOL

• US 20160323376A1
• 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 10,334,040 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 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/20 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1061 using node-based peer discovery mechanisms static access to replicated servers H04L67/1006; service discovery H04L67/51

Abstract

In a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method of sharing information between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network via a distributed peer-to-peer protocol. The method includes automatically discovering pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a local area network, and sharing information between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network via a distributed peer-to-peer protocol such that there is no single point of failure for the sharing information between the pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over the wide area network.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method of sharing information between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network via a distributed peer-to-peer protocol, the method comprising:

automatically discovering pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a local area network; and

sharing information between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network via a distributed peer-to-peer protocol such that there is no single point of failure for said sharing information between said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over said wide area network.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling a centralized management tool of a cluster of pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices based on said information shared between said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling a federated single sign-on to said wide area network.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

distributed monitoring of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network based on said distributed peer-to-peer protocol and a federated single sign-on such that there is no single point of failure for said distributed monitoring.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

distributed monitoring of any independent server node of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network based on said distributed peer-to-peer protocol and a federated single sign-on such that there is no single point of failure for said distributed monitoring.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said wide area network is a non-federated environment.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said shared information does not provide instructions for load balancing.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said shared information is selected from group of information comprising:

CPU metrics, memory metrics, and storage metrics.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said wide area network is a private network.

10. A computer-implemented method of distributed monitoring of pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network, the method comprising:

sharing metrics between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network via a distributed peer-to-peer protocol, wherein at least some of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices are located in separate geographical locations; and

distributed monitoring of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network based on said distributed peer-to-peer protocol and a federated single sign-on such that there is no single point of failure for said distributed monitoring.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

automatically discovering said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in a local area network.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

controlling a centralized management tool of a cluster of pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices based on said information shared between said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein said distributed monitoring of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices further comprises:

distributed monitoring of any independent server node of any of said pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices in said wide area network.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein said wide area network is a non-federated environment.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein said shared metrics does not provide instructions for load balancing.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein said shared metrics is selected from group of metrics comprising:

CPU metrics, memory metrics, and storage metrics.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein said wide area network is a public network.

18. A computer-implemented method for peer-to-peer communication outside of a local area network via a network broker, the computer-implemented method comprising:

automatically discovering, by a computing device, other computing devices in a local area network; and

peer-to-peer communicating, by said computing device, with another computing device outside of said local area network via a network broker.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein said computing device is a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, providing federated single sign-on to a wide area network.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein said peer-to-peer communicating comprises:

sharing metrics between pre-configured hyper-converged computing devices over a wide area network via a distributed peer-to-peer protocol.