11 results about "Converged infrastructure" patented technology

The disclosed method deploys a containerized health condition monitoring service that includes an embedded health condition monitoring service script. The containerized service generates a Secure Shell (SSH) key pair, including an SSH public key and an SSH private key. A management account of the containerized service is registered to a centralized account service. An SSH control module of a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) manager retrieves the management account of the containerized service from the account service. The control module accesses the containerized service to retrieve the SSH public key and stores the SSH public key to a target resource, such as a host or virtual machine, to enable any instance of the containerized service to remotely execute the health condition monitoring service script on the target resource using SSH commands.

Techniques discussed herein relate to monitoring and / or detecting destabilization events of a host machine of a cloud computing environment. At least some of these destabilization events can be associated with a converged network adaptor of the host machine. The converged network adaptor may include a combination of functionality of a host network interface card (NIC) and functionality associated with a smart adaptor (e.g., a smart NIC). The smart adaptor may be configured to use at the host machine. A converged infrastructure management service may monitor operational data associated with the host machine to identify destabilization events that may be associated with the converged network adaptor. One or more remedial actions may be identified based at least in part on identifying these destabilizing events.

An information handling system may include a main physical storage resource and a bootstrap physical storage resource. The information handling system may be configured to: boot from a bootstrap operating system (OS) stored on the bootstrap physical storage resource; install, by the bootstrap OS, a main OS onto the main physical storage resource; expose the bootstrap physical storage resource as a drive that is accessible from the main OS; and in response to a change in hardware, software, or firmware of the information handling system, update the bootstrap OS from the main OS.

A system and method include receiving, by a database engine of a database system associated with a virtual computing system, a user request via a dashboard for provisioning a source database with the database system, receiving, by the database engine via the dashboard, selection of a database engine type, and receiving, by the database engine via the dashboard, selection of a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) and a protection schedule. The system and method also include provisioning, by the database engine, the source database based upon the database engine type, creating, by the database engine, an instance of a database protection system based upon the SLA and the protection schedule, including associating the instance of the database protection system with the source database, and displaying, by the database engine, the source database within the dashboard.

Automation system, apparatus and method for coupling a device network and a communication network, wherein the system verifies addressing of components in an automation system having a hyper-convergent infrastructure, where a gateway extends data telegrams to include a device-specific signature if such a signature cannot be implemented by the automation device of the automation system itself.

A software defined distributed control system (SDCS) in a process plant includes an application layer that includes a plurality of containers instantiated in a data cluster. Each of the containers is an isolated execution environment executing within the local operating system of a respective computing node. The containers cooperate to facilitate execution of a control strategy in the SDCS, and includes a hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) operating across the data cluster, which HCI is configured to communicate with the application layer via an adapter service. The HCI includes software-defined (SD) compute resources, SD storage resources, SD networking resources, and an orchestrator service. The orchestrator service is programmed to configure a first container to include a service executing within the first container. It also assigns the first container to execute on an available hardware resource to control a plurality of field devices operating in the process plant.

A disclosed method for managing access to cloud infrastructure include responding to receiving a user request to access a cloud resource, such as a cluster associated with a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, associated with an entity by performing a layered authentication of the user. The layered authentication includes determining first layer privileges based on first user credentials associated with a first authentication module and determining second layer privileges based on second user credentials associated with a second authentication module. The request is granted or denied based on a combination of the user's first and second layer privileges. The first authentication module may be associated with a first authentication domain such as an authentication domain of a cloud service provider or an OEM of cloud infrastructure resources. The second authentication module may comprise an authentication module maintained by the entity associated with the resource targeted by the user request.

Disclosed systems and methods may retrieve a base image of a plugin for a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform and create a Docker image for an HCI platform plugin based, in part, on the base image. The HCI platform plugin enables an extended function not native to the HCI platform. Disclosed methods may include registering the Docker image within an HCI platform instance running on an HCI appliance associated with a customer, and saving the Docker image to a Docker image repository within the HCI platform instance. The extended HCI platform function may be any suitable function including, as an illustrative example, a function for provisioning a third party storage device within the HCI platform. Disclosed method steps may be performed by an independent third party developer that lacks authorized access to an HCI platform instance.

Techniques discussed herein relate to monitoring and / or detecting destabilization events of a host machine of a cloud computing environment. At least some of these destabilization events can be associated with a converged network adaptor of the host machine. The converged network adaptor may include a combination of functionality of a host network interface card (NIC) and functionality associated with a smart adaptor (e.g., a smart NIC). The smart adaptor may be configured to use at the host machine. A converged infrastructure management service may monitor operational data associated with the host machine to identify destabilization events that may be associated with the converged network adaptor. One or more remedial actions may be identified based at least in part on identifying these destabilizing events.

This invention discloses a method, apparatus, and medium for accessing a clustered file system, applicable to virtualization and hyper-converged infrastructure. Based on block file data I / O operations, the Paxos algorithm is applied to determine the target node for lock request access. The entire process achieves node-to-node access without relying on the network. I / O operations are not limited by specific storage through read and write operations. An added lock region is used for inter-node competition for lock resources. Disk regions are partitioned to target metadata structures requiring concurrent access protection. Then, based on the Paxos algorithm and the kernel block layer interface, I / O requests are directly issued to allow target nodes to compete for lock resources. This avoids the problem of existing clustered file systems being unable to simultaneously achieve network independence and storage independence during concurrent access, improving the stability and usability of clustered files.

An information handling system and method for managing event messages in a distributed computing environment employing a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) architecture in which a central controller is configured to send a heartbeat to a plurality of nodes within a management domain of the controller indicating message handling capabilities of the central controller. Each node maintains an event messaging state of the central controller based on the heartbeat. When a node detects that a reportable event has occurred, the node determines a reporting policy corresponding to the event messaging state of the central controller and takes an event message action in accordance with the reporting policy. The event message action can include sending the event message without delay or storing the event message for subsequent sending.