Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Workload Recreation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Business organizations lack the resources and expertise to manage data backup and recovery efficiently, particularly in maintaining a second physical site for disaster recovery, which hampers quick restoration of critical workloads and networks.

Innovation Solution

A cloud-based disaster recovery system that recreates failed client workloads by reserving resources and creating virtual machines within a cloud-based computing platform, enabling swift recovery without the need for a duplicate physical site.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a second duplicate physical site is maintained for disaster recovery, then reliability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisaster recovery capabilityVSAvoidphysical infrastructure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies virtualization to create virtual copies of physical infrastructure resources (computing, storage, networking) in the cloud instead of maintaining a complete duplicate physical site. Virtual machines and virtual network functions can be rapidly provisioned and migrated to restore workloads after disasters, achieving reliability without the complexity of duplicate physical infrastructure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud-based platform provides universal disaster recovery capabilities that can serve multiple clients and workloads simultaneously. The same cloud infrastructure can be shared across different organizations and recovery scenarios, reducing the need for dedicated duplicate physical sites while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If cloud resources are used for disaster recovery, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of time for resource provisioning may occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverecovery managementVSAvoidresource provisioning time

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-provisions virtual infrastructure resources in the cloud before disasters occur. Virtual machines, storage resources, and network configurations are prepared in advance and can be rapidly activated when needed, eliminating provisioning delays during actual disaster recovery operations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud-based system provides dynamic resource allocation and automatic scaling capabilities. Resources can be rapidly provisioned, adjusted, or migrated based on recovery needs without manual intervention, improving both ease of operation and reducing provisioning time through automated orchestration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10797940B2Methods, apparatuses and systems for cloud-based disaster recovery

Publication Date: 2020.10.06 STORAGE ENGINE INC

AI summary

A method, apparatus and system for cloud-based disaster recovery include receiving, at a cloud-based computing platform, an indication of a failed client workload, in response to the failure indication, recreating the failed client workload at the cloud-based computing platform, reserving resources of the cloud-based computing platform based on the recreated client workload, creating a virtual machine of the recreated client workload in the cloud-based computing platform within the reserved resources, and enabling the virtual machine for use by the client in place of the failed client workload.