Multi-site Cloud Backup Policies Across Hardware Islands
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Converged infrastructure in cloud computing environments, while offering advantages like quick deployment and cost reduction, presents challenges such as isolated resources that hinder data protection and backup techniques across multiple sites, limiting access and compatibility between different infrastructure components.
Innovation Solution
A multi-site cloud management system with an object model and relationship mappings that allows for flexible tracking and protection of workloads across redundant hardware sets, enabling data protection and backup across multiple converged infrastructure appliances by defining hardware islands and managing resources within and across sites.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If converged infrastructure is used with tight integration of compute, storage, and network, then deployment speed and ease of operation are improved, but resource isolation prevents access across multiple infrastructure pieces and sites
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal namespace that allows storage resources from multiple converged infrastructure appliances to be accessed uniformly across different sites. The system provides a common interface and naming convention that enables compute resources at one site to access storage resources at another site, making the distributed infrastructure act as a unified system rather than isolated components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a site-wide namespace intermediary layer that sits between the isolated converged infrastructure appliances. This namespace layer translates and routes access requests across site boundaries, enabling resources to be shared between multiple infrastructure pieces without breaking the tight integration within each appliance.
2Reliability
If multiple pieces of converged infrastructure are deployed across sites, then resource utilization and disaster recovery capability are improved, but data protection and backup techniques are hindered by isolated design
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the backup and data protection capabilities across multiple converged infrastructure appliances by implementing a shared namespace. This allows a single backup infrastructure to serve multiple compute clusters from different sites, consolidating data protection resources and simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining disaster recovery capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal namespace enables backup infrastructure at one site to universally access and protect data from compute resources at any site. This multi-functional approach allows the same backup system to serve multiple purposes across different geographical locations, reducing the need for separate backup infrastructures at each site.
3Adaptability or versatility
If storage is provisioned to a cluster in one converged infrastructure using storage from another piece, then resource sharing is improved, but compute cannot access storage across infrastructure boundaries
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the storage namespace into site-specific portions while maintaining a unified view through the common namespace. Each converged infrastructure appliance maintains its own storage resources, but the namespace segmentation allows these resources to be logically organized and accessed across site boundaries without requiring physical redistribution of storage components.
Data Source
AI summary
A first hardware island is defined as including at least a first compute cluster. First backup infrastructure is associated with the first compute cluster. A second hardware island is defined as including at least a second compute cluster. Second backup infrastructure is associated with the second compute cluster. A partnership is established between the first and second compute clusters. A selection of a backup policy to be associated with a workload is received. The workload is provisioned to the first compute cluster for processing and the selected backup policy is provided to the second backup infrastructure.