Cloud Management Device Pre-Allocating IP Addresses for Rapid Elastic Scale-Up
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current elastic scale-up technologies in cloud computing are slow in deploying new virtual machines to handle increased service traffic, leading to delayed provision of external services due to the time-consuming process of building a new virtual machine environment and configuring applications.
Innovation Solution
A cloud management device rapidly scales up by pre-allocating an IP address to a new node before updating the data routing table, allowing it to receive service requests from a load balancer, and then migrates records to ensure seamless service provision, using a hybrid scale-up mode that includes pre-scale-up and formal scale-up conditions based on resource and service performance indicators.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a new virtual machine environment is built and application is configured when system capacity resource is allocated according to requirement, then the new node can support access service, but the scale-up process consumes relatively long time and the added node cannot provide external service promptly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-allocating IP addresses to potential new nodes before they are actually needed for service. When scale-up is triggered, these pre-configured nodes can be rapidly activated and integrated into the service network without undergoing time-consuming IP allocation and configuration processes, thus reducing scale-up time while maintaining service availability
2Ease of manufacture
If virtual machine environment building and application configuration are performed during scale-up, then the new node becomes functional, but both processes consume relatively long time delaying service provision
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary configuration by pre-allocating IP addresses and preparing node environments in advance. When scale-up is needed, the new node already has its network identity assigned and can be rapidly integrated into the cluster, eliminating the time-consuming configuration steps during critical scale-up operations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the node configuration process into distinct phases: pre-allocation phase (IP address assignment before scale-up) and activation phase (rapid integration after scale-up trigger). This segmentation allows the time-consuming configuration tasks to be performed in advance rather than blocking the scale-up process
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AI summary
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of cloud computing technologies, and in particular, to a method for a virtual resource in a cloud computing environment and a device, to simplify and rapidly implement elastic scale-up. When a cloud management device scales up a new execution device, before the execution device is successfully scaled up, that is, before a data routing table of each execution device is updated, the cloud management device sends an IP address of the new execution device to a load balancer, so that the new execution device can receive a service request allocated by the load balancer. When the execution device processes the service request, if a data module is required to process a process, the execution device still allocates the data module according to a previous data routing table. Therefore, elastic scale-up of the execution device is rapidly implemented, so that the execution device can rapidly process a service request from an external network.