Blueprint-Driven Environment Templates for Virtual Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large organizations face challenges in efficiently designing and scaling complex electronic record-keeping systems due to the need for customized hardware infrastructure, which is time-consuming and prone to troubleshooting issues, especially when problems arise.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a blueprint-driven environment template creation in a virtual infrastructure, allowing for automated provisioning and deployment of virtual environments, which standardizes resource requests and ensures consistency across different environments, reducing setup and maintenance costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If customized hardware infrastructure is designed for each organization's specific needs, then the system meets the organization's specific requirements effectively, but it takes a great deal of time to build and test new systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring standardized infrastructure templates that contain pre-defined hardware, software, and network configurations. These templates are prepared in advance with common organizational requirements already incorporated, allowing rapid deployment when new systems are needed. The templates include pre-tested configurations that eliminate the need to build and test from scratch each time a new system is deployed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes by allowing organizations to customize standardized templates through configuration parameters rather than redesigning entire systems. Key parameters such as system size, capacity, specific software versions, and hardware specifications can be adjusted within the standardized framework, enabling adaptation to specific organizational needs while maintaining the benefits of standardization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customized infrastructure is designed for each system, then the system serves organizational needs effectively, but it requires extensive design and testing effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the infrastructure into modular standardized components or building blocks. Each template represents a self-contained module with specific functionalities (e.g., database server, application server, network configuration). These segmented modules can be independently configured, deployed, and managed, allowing parallel development and testing while maintaining overall system coherence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes copying by creating replicable standardized templates that can be instantiated multiple times across different organizations or departments. Once a template is designed and validated, it can be copied and deployed consistently throughout the organization, ensuring uniformity while reducing the need to redesign systems repeatedly. The templates serve as reusable blueprints that maintain productivity across multiple deployments.
3Ease of manufacture
If standardized environment templates are used for automated provisioning, then setup and maintenance costs are reduced, but customization flexibility may be limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the standardized templates configurable and adaptable rather than rigid. The templates include parameterized configurations that can be dynamically adjusted based on organizational needs. This allows the same standardized template to serve multiple purposes with different configurations, maintaining ease of provisioning while providing necessary customization flexibility through dynamic parameter adjustment.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for automated provisioning of heterogeneous virtual environments comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive an environment template, receive an environment configuration, and provision an environment using the environment template and the environment configuration. The environment template is built using a blueprint. The environment configuration comprises an environment endpoint. The environment is for deploying an application. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions.