Graph Database for Virtualization Infrastructure Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The administration of virtualization infrastructures is complex, particularly in large-scale deployments, where monitoring and managing the health of virtualization environments is challenging due to the vast amount of data generated, requiring sophisticated tools and significant training to interpret effectively.
Innovation Solution
Creating a social network of virtualization infrastructure members, where parent-child relationships are mapped and affiliation relationships are established, coupled with a graph database to provide aggregated and summarized management data, allowing for intuitive management and querying of virtualization infrastructure through a virtualization management API and social network descriptors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If conventional monitoring tools aggregate and summarize large amounts of data, then the quantity of data becomes manageable, but the complexity of interpreting and visualizing the data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a social network layer as an intermediary between the virtualization infrastructure and administrators. This social network maps relationships between infrastructure components (VMs, hosts, datacenters) and presents them through familiar social networking concepts, making the complex data more interpretable without reducing the underlying data volume
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the presentation parameters of the monitoring data by transforming it into a social network format. Instead of presenting raw aggregated data, the system represents infrastructure components as nodes and relationships as connections, changing how the data is organized and perceived to reduce interpretation complexity
2Productivity
If automated monitoring techniques collect and analyze large numbers of metrics, then a concise view of environment status is provided, but significant training is still required to understand and use the output
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the infrastructure's social network relationships that administrators can interact with through a user-friendly interface. This social network representation copies the essential relationships and metadata from the complex infrastructure, allowing administrators to query and monitor without needing to understand the underlying complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the monitoring output into individual social network profiles and relationships, making the information more digestible. Each infrastructure component gets its own profile with relevant metadata, and relationships are displayed as connections between profiles, breaking down the monolithic data structure into manageable units
3Adaptability or versatility
If virtualized deployments increase in scale, then the infrastructure capacity increases, but the complexity of keeping track of basic health increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal social network representation that works across different scales of virtualization deployments. The same social network framework can represent small or large infrastructures, and the relationship mapping approach scales naturally with the number of components without requiring different monitoring strategies
Data Source
AI summary
In a computer-implemented method for providing management of a virtualization infrastructure, a query related to the virtualization infrastructure is received. A graph database of the virtualization infrastructure is accessed, the graph database including nodes associated with members of the virtualization infrastructure and edges associated with relationships of the members of the virtualization infrastructure, wherein the nodes and the relationships include types. An answer to the query is received from the graph database.