69 results about "Bare machine" patented technology

The present application is directed towards systems and methods for adaptive application provisioning for cloud services. An appliance deployed in a network as a gateway may be able to transparently monitor application activity in a cloud computing environment provided by one or more servers, including servers executed by virtual machines, bare-metal or non-virtual servers, or other computing devices. In some embodiments, the appliance may monitor one or more network metrics, including bandwidth usage, latency, congestion, or other issues; and/or may monitor application health or server or virtual machine statistics, including memory and processor usage, bandwidth usage, latency, or other metrics. Responsive to one or more metrics exceeding a threshold, the appliance may automatically provision or start, or deprovision or shut down, one or more virtual or physical machines from a cloud service provider, and may provide configuration information to the provisioned or started machines as needed.

A novel method is disclosed for capturing an installed state of a conventional application and converting the captured state into a virtual application. The novel method starts with a bare machine in a known state, preferably soon after the OS was installed. Installation scripts are used to install one or more software applications along with required components and dependencies. Other artifacts can be added and configured such as files, trees, directories, entries, data, values, among others. These also may include updates to various system databases, such as the Windows registry in which certain metadata is stored. The installed applications are tested and verified to work as desired. Undesired artifacts can be deleted manually or removed by the OS. The state of the virtual machine with the installed applications is captured. The installed applications can be tested on the frozen virtual machine. If the user determines that the installed applications are working properly, a virtual machine image is prepared and then written out. The resulting output is a new populated virtual application container that encapsulates the applications installed and configured by the user. If the user determines that one or more installed applications do not work properly during testing, then the frozen virtual machine can be unfrozen and any deficiencies corrected. The virtual machine image is stored as a launch document and a set of shards. The virtual machine image represents the state of the virtual machine along with the installed applications at the time the preparation virtual machine was frozen.

A system, method and computer program product for providing “bare metal” computer hardware with full operating system capabilities, including: (a) executing software contained in computer hardware read-only memory; (b) transferring software control to a location of a start-up program; (c) performing initialization of devices of the computer hardware; (d) selecting an origin storage device for restoration of an operating system to a destination storage device of the computer hardware; (e) establishing a connection with an origin for restoration of an operating system to the computer hardware; (f) initiating a transfer of the operating system data from selected origin to the computer hardware; (g) performing optional substitution of the computer hardware drivers; (h) performing optional structural modifications to the restored operating system; and (i) restoring the operating system to the computer hardware from a data storage device located either locally or remotely, from full or incremental operating system backup.

The invention discloses a method and system for automatically adding a host machine to a cloud platform. The method comprises the steps of assigning an IP address to a physical machine; acquiring the first data of the physical machine, including hardware information of the physical machine and connection relationship between a network card of the physical machine and a switch port; updating network topology; restarting the physical machine after hardware configuration of the physical machine; assigning an IP address for the physical machine again; installing an operating system for the physical machine; conducing a basic configuration for the physical machine, switching a network segment; and conducting an application deployment of the host machine for the physical machine. By means of the method and system for automatically adding the host machine to the cloud platform, a workflow for deploying the physical machine from a bare machine to the host machine, a standardized installation configuration is automatically completed, an original cross-group or even the cross-departmental manual workflow is replaced, the expansion speed of host machine resources of the cloud platform is accelerated, and the stability and usability of the cloud platform are improved.

The invention discloses a method and device for detecting the information of a bare metal network card. The method comprises the following steps of creating a physical machine instance type in an OpenStack platform; registering the bare metal to the OpenStack platform and downloading the deployment image to the bare metal, wherein the deployment image is used for guiding the download and installation of the user image of the bare metal; when the DHCP request sent by the network card of the bare machine is monitored, assigning the IP address to the bare machine, and then downloading the pre-stored memory image to the bare machine, wherein the memory image includes an information collecting program which is used to collect the information of the network card and the switch connected with thenetwork card through the LLDP protocol; when the information of the bare NIC and the information of the switch are received, uploading the information of the bare NIC and the information of the switch to the OpenStack platform. The scheme can conveniently detect the logical network card information registered on the OpenStack platform and the switch information connected with the network card, and the user does not need to record the cumbersome network card and switch information.

The invention provides a system for automatically executing preinstalled software components, and an execution method thereof. The system comprises a management subsystem, a modularization subsystem and a preinstallation subsystem, wherein the management subsystem establishes a requirement list of the preinstalled software components according to the model of a bare computer; the modularization subsystem modularizes every software component on the requirement list so as to form at least one software component module and installs the at least one software component module in the bare computer; the preinstallation subsystem establishes a corresponding image file for the at least one software component module and stores the image file in the bare computer; and then the operation of preinstalling the software component in the bare computer is automatically completed by use of the system for automatically executing preinstalled software components.

The invention discloses a control method and device of an OpenStack cloud computing management platform, which are applied to an OpenStack cloud computing management platform. The method includes: receiving a mirror image used for being deployed to physical nodes; creating instance types for physical nodes and adding metadata identified as providing physical node services; registering the physicalnode that will mirror the virtual machine; upon receiving a user-initiated request to create a virtual machine and a request to deploy a physical node, creating a virtual machine, and deploying a user image to the physical node to install an operating system contained in the user image to the physical node according to the instance type for the physical node and metadata identified as providing services to the physical node. The OpenStack cloud computing management platform can install the operating system for the bare machine in the form of virtual machine, which improves the operation and maintenance efficiency and saves the operation and maintenance cost.

The invention discloses a method for testing X86 architecture server mainboards. An X86 architecture server mainboard is mounted in a server case to form an X86 architecture server system. The method includes: testing the server system upon a bare computer; testing the server system upon an operating system; and storing test results into corresponding tables of a file for comprehensive analysis of the server mainboard. Using the testing method can effectively verifying the problems of stability, performance and functionality of the X86 architecture server mainboards in a development stage and a productization stage.

The invention provides an operation system installation method and system. The method comprises the following steps of: S100, carrying out registration according to hardware information of bare equipment so as to obtain hardware registration information; S200, creating a node corresponding to the bare equipment according to the hardware registration information; S300, controlling the bare equipment in a startup state to install an automatic installation script so that the bare equipment can call a configuration script in the automatic installation script to carry out configuration, wherein the automatic installation script comprises the configuration script of a target operation system; and S400, restarting the bare equipment, the installation configuration of which is completed. The target operation system is seamlessly fused with openstack, so that the bare equipment installed with the target operation system can manage physical hosts like managing virtual machines, so that the scaled deployment is automatic and the work of manually installing and configuring the operation system is decreased.

Systems and methods for a resource advisor for automated bare-metal operating system installation is disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method comprising using at least one processor and memory for detecting available resources in a computing device. Further, the method comprises validating resource criteria specified by a user. Further, the method, in response to validating the resource criteria, generating a list of recommended resources for installing an operating system based on the detected available resources.

The invention discloses a method and a device for burning a file into an EMMC (Embedded MultiMedia Card). The method comprises the following steps that: according to a model of user equipment, a system file corresponding to the model is obtained, and the system file comprises at least one sub file which is positioned in the same file folder; the installing sequence of the at least one sub file is determined according to the model of the user equipment, and the at least one sub file is merged into one file according to the installing sequence; and the merged file is converted into a set format and is burned into the EMMC corresponding to the user equipment. The method and the device have the advantages that a plurality of sub files can be merged into one file; the merged file is directly burned into the EMMC; and the defect that system sub files are installed into the EMMC only after the bare machine production completion of the user equipment is avoided, so the production efficiency of the user equipment is improved.

The invention discloses a CPU (central processing unit) test method of a server and a system. The method comprises the following steps: installing an automatic PXE deployment operation system in a main server; decompressing a first operation system file needing to be deployed by virtue of the main server, and packing CPU performance test software and relevant compiler files into the decompressed first operation system file; compressing the decompressed first operation system file by virtue of the main server, and generating a second operation system file; altering kickstart file parameters by virtue of the main server, and automatically deploying the second operation system file onto a server bare computer to be tested by virtue of the automatic PXE deployment operation system. By adopting the test method, the deployment speed of the server CPU performance test can be increased, and the efficiency for testing the server CPU performance by engineers can be improved.

A system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least two virtual machines running on a hardware platform using either a hosted or a bare metal hypervisor. The virtual machines may communicate with an agent-server resident in the host operating system or in one of the virtual machines to switch control of the hardware component, such as graphics hardware, from one virtual machine to another.

The invention discloses a bare machine management method and device based on an SDN (Software Defined Network), a server and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: receiving a network creation request sent by a current tenant through an SDN controller, wherein the network creation request at least includes the tenant identifier of the current tenant; searching for a tenant network corresponding to the current tenant in pre-created tenant networks in response to the network creation request; if no tenant network corresponding to the current tenant is found in the pre-createdtenant networks, creating a tenant network corresponding to the current tenant through an inspection network and a provision network; and managing bare machines BM corresponding to the current tenantthrough the tenant network corresponding to the current tenant. Bare machines can be managed as a whole to meet the specific feasibility and efficiency requirements of tenants.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and device for deploying and managing a cloud data center device. The method includes the steps that different deployment task types in the cloud data center are judged; according to the judged deployment task types, corresponding resources are called in a virtual resource pool or a physical resource pool; corresponding deploying operation is completed through a corresponding resource-operation application program interface (API). According to the method and device for deploying and managing the cloud data center device in the embodiment, indiscrimination deployment and management of a lower bare computer and a virtual machine of the cloud data center are achieved, and the utilization rate of data center resources is increased.

The invention discloses a user programmable PLC (programmable logic controller) serial communication extension module, which uses a naked machine framework instead of an embedded operating system, and provides a serial read-write drive interface required by user programming and development and library functions such as a system data area read-write interface function, a soft timer operating function and the like; a user accomplishes works such as development, debugging and downloading of an application program of a communication protocol and the like and then performs module configuration, configuration file downloading, serial communication debugging and the like through an Ethernet interface and at the same time; and the Ethernet can provide communication functions of Modbus TCP communication or other communication protocols. As the embedded operating system is not used in a software layer, associated expenses of the operating system and works such as development and maintenance and the like of the operating system are reduced; and the user programmable PLC serial communication extension module has lower requirements on performances of a core CPU (central processing unit) and a memory system, so that development difficulty and cost of software and hardware are reduced greatly.

The present invention provides a method for implementing menu organization and interaction based on a GUI frame of embedded bare metal. The method comprises the steps of structural organization, loading and running, interface interaction and extension response. The method for implementing menu organization and interaction based on a GUI frame of an embedded bare machine provided by the present invention solves defects such as that an original menu system is inflexible in organization, difficult in maintenance, and difficult in extension.

iSCSI based bare metal os image deployment and a diskless boot method are provided. Various examples of the present technology provide a method for iSCSI based bare metal OS image deployment and diskless boot in a server system. In some examples, methods for iSCSI based bare metal OS image deployment and diskless boot in a server system comprise setting a boot order of a BIOS of the server system to iSCSI NIC of a controller (e.g., BMC) of the server system, setting iSCSI boot configuration to the controller, updating the boot order based at least upon information from the controller, syncing the iSCSI boot configuration to the BIOS of the server system based upon the information from the controller, and causing the server system to be booted from a specific target IP and LUN of an iSCSI storage server of a SAN.