Boot Key Virtualization Management Overhead
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Solution Overview
Problem
Small companies face high overhead costs and management complexities in implementing hardware virtualization due to traditional management requirements, making it a luxury they cannot afford despite its benefits.
Innovation Solution
A web-service based virtualization solution that includes a remote virtualization distribution and management system and a boot key to simplify the deployment and management of virtual servers, reducing overhead by allowing a third-party operator to manage updates, upgrades, and configuration, and enabling automatic communication with a web-service for executable instructions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If hardware virtualization is implemented using traditional methods, then multiple virtual machines can be operated on a single physical computer, but management overhead and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the management functions from the customer's control environment and places them in a remote management system. The management system is separated into independent components: a management server that handles updates, upgrades, and configuration, and a customer premises equipment that only needs to execute received instructions. This extraction resolves the contradiction by removing management complexity from the customer's side while preserving virtualization capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a remote management system as an intermediary between the customer and the virtualization infrastructure. This intermediary handles all complex management tasks including maintaining, upgrading, and configuring virtualization technologies, while the customer simply receives and executes instructions. The intermediary resolves the contradiction by absorbing management overhead away from the customer's operational environment.
2Reliability
If hardware virtualization is deployed with full management capabilities, then comprehensive control over virtual machines is achieved, but costs and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service model where the remote management system autonomously handles all management tasks without requiring customer intervention. The management system automatically performs maintenance, updates, and configuration, then communicates instructions to the customer premises equipment. This self-service approach resolves the contradiction by maintaining full control capabilities while eliminating the need for customer management resources.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional virtualization management is implemented, then complete management control is maintained, but ease of operation decreases due to complex maintenance and upgrading requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the virtualization system into two distinct parts: a remote management system that handles all complex operations, and a simplified customer premises equipment that only executes instructions. The management functions are divided into separate tasks (maintenance, updates, configuration) that are independently handled by the remote system. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by preserving management control in the remote system while providing operational simplicity to the customer.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method of operating an electronic device may include loading an operating system, from a boot key, on the electronic device during turn-on of the electronic device. The operating system may be operated on the electronic device. The boot key may cause the electronic device to automatically communicate with a web-service located on a communications network to enable executable instructions from the web-service to be communicated to the electronic device for execution thereon.