HCI Correlation Engine for Infrastructure Migration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of correlating Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) system needs with traditional physical information handling system infrastructures makes it difficult to provide an optimal HCI configuration that meets the requirements of the traditional infrastructure while minimizing costs and ensuring on-demand scalability with minimal disruption.
Innovation Solution
An Information Handling System (IHS) with a processing system and memory that includes an HCI correlation engine, which retrieves physical device and performance information from the traditional infrastructure, accesses an HCI component database, and identifies suitable HCI components to configure an HCI system that replicates the functionality of the traditional infrastructure, allowing for dynamic adjustment of component prioritization based on performance and positioning strategies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If HCI systems are configured from a wide variety of HCI components to provide different solutions with varying resiliency levels and capacities, then the system can meet diverse infrastructure requirements and provide optimal configuration, but it becomes increasingly difficult to correlate HCI system needs with traditional physical infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an HCI correlation system as an intermediary between the traditional physical infrastructure and the HCI system. This correlation system automatically correlates physical device information with HCI component requirements, managing the complexity of matching diverse infrastructure needs with appropriate HCI configurations. The intermediary handles the complex matching process by retrieving physical device information, determining required HCI components, and generating configuration recommendations, thereby resolving the contradiction between configuration flexibility and correlation difficulty.
2Productivity
If traditional physical information handling system infrastructures are replaced with software-defined HCI systems, then costs are reduced and flexibility with on-demand scaling is improved, but it becomes difficult to ensure minimal disruption during migration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having the HCI correlation system perform advance analysis and planning before migration. The system retrieves physical device information and performance capabilities, determines the required HCI components in advance, and generates configuration recommendations that ensure compatibility and minimal disruption. This preliminary correlation and planning process allows organizations to prepare migration strategies ahead of time, reducing unexpected disruptions while maintaining the productivity benefits of HCI systems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the number of HCI system components available to provide HCI systems grows, then more solutions with varying resiliency levels and capacities become available, but the difficulty of correlating HCI system needs with traditional physical infrastructure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The HCI correlation system serves as an intermediary that automatically manages the complex correlation process between physical infrastructure and HCI components. It retrieves physical device information, compares it with HCI component specifications from the database, and determines the appropriate HCI configuration. This intermediary approach handles the increased complexity brought by the growing number of HCI components, making it easier to find suitable matches without reducing the variety of available solutions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual correlation processes with an automated electronic system. The HCI correlation system uses automated retrieval of physical device information, database queries for HCI component specifications, and algorithmic matching to determine appropriate configurations. This substitution of manual mechanical processes with automated electronic systems reduces the difficulty of correlation while maintaining access to a wide variety of HCI solutions with different resiliency levels and capacities.
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AI summary
A Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)/physical infrastructure correlation system includes a compute/networking/storage physical infrastructure system coupled to an HCI correlation system via a network. The HCI correlation system retrieves physical device information about respective physical devices included in the compute/networking/storage physical infrastructure system, as well as performance capability information of the respective physical devices included in the compute/networking/storage physical infrastructure system. The HCI correlation system then accesses an HCI component database, and uses the physical device information and the performance capability information to identify a plurality of HCI components that are configurable as an HCI system to perform functionality that is provided by the respective physical devices included in the compute/networking/storage physical infrastructure system. The HCI correlation system then causes at least one HCI software component included in the plurality of HCI components to be provided on at least one HCI physical component included in the plurality of HCI components.