Content Library Synchronization via Control Signals
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Solution Overview
Problem
In distributed computer systems, managing and synchronizing consumable software contents across virtual data centers and processing clusters is challenging due to security concerns and inefficiencies in sharing and updating software items, particularly as these contents are stored in multiple datastores located in different regions, leading to potential unauthorized access and tedious management processes.
Innovation Solution
A distributed computer system and method for synchronizing content libraries in replication groups, where a synchronization control signal is transmitted from a master content library to subscribed content libraries, allowing them to synchronize their contents based on metadata analysis to match the master library, ensuring secure and efficient updates across the network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If consumable software contents are stored in local or remote datastores accessible to anyone with administrative rights, then universal access to data is achieved, but security is compromised allowing unauthorized access and unauthorized build operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments consumable software contents into consumable items (templates, ISOs, scripts) stored in content libraries, separating them from the datastore structure. This allows controlled access to individual items through the vCLM module while maintaining security, as users can only access items through authorized consumption operations rather than direct datastore access.
Solution Approach 2:
The vCLM (virtual machine content library management) module acts as an intermediary between users and consumable software contents. It manages the content libraries and controls all access operations, preventing direct unauthorized access to datastores while enabling legitimate consumption of software items through controlled interfaces.
2Ease of operation
If consumable software contents are stored in numerous datastores located in different regions or locations, then data consolidation benefits are reduced, but sharing these contents between different administrators and users becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The vCLM module provides a universal management interface for content libraries across multiple datastores. It can discover, manage, and synchronize consumable software items from any datastore location through a single system, eliminating the need for administrators to manually manage each datastore separately and enabling centralized control over distributed content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the management of consumable software contents from multiple distributed datastores into unified content libraries. The vCLM consolidates access to items across different regions through a single management interface, allowing administrators to share and synchronize contents across all locations simultaneously rather than handling each datastore individually.
3Reliability
If manual management of consumable software contents is performed across multiple datastores, then control over software items is maintained, but management time and operational complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The vCLM system provides automated self-service capabilities for managing consumable software contents. It automatically discovers items in content libraries, synchronizes them across datastores, and manages their availability without requiring manual administrative intervention for routine operations, significantly reducing management time while maintaining control through the automated management interface.
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AI summary
A distributed computer system and method for synchronizing content libraries in replication groups uses a synchronization control signal that is transmitted to a subscribed content library management module of each subscribed content library in a replication group from a content library management module of the master content library in the replication group to initiate a synchronization procedure. Using metadata of at least one consumable software item from the master content library, contents of a subscribed content library in the replication group are modified to synchronize its contents to the contents of the master content library.