Hybrid Cloud Weighted Efficiency Index Calculation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hybrid cloud systems face challenges in efficiently managing and allocating resources between public and private clouds, leading to over or underutilization and increased operational costs due to the difficulty in understanding resource utilization efficiency across different cloud environments with non-analogous metrics and varying cost models.
Innovation Solution
A weighted efficiency index is calculated and displayed to users, indicating the relative efficiency of resource utilization in public and private clouds, using metrics such as resource utilization and cost data, which allows for better management and allocation of resources by comparing efficiency scores and dynamically migrating workloads between clouds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If resource allocation is managed across hybrid cloud systems with non-analogous metrics and varying cost models, then resource utilization efficiency improves, but system complexity and difficulty of measurement increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms diverse, non-analogous resource utilization metrics from public and private clouds into a unified efficiency index through parameter transformation. Different cloud providers' metrics are normalized and weighted to create a common measurement scale, enabling direct comparison and optimization across heterogeneous cloud environments while maintaining the unique characteristics of each provider's metrics
Solution Approach 2:
The efficiency index acts as an intermediary measurement layer between diverse cloud resource metrics and management decisions. This intermediate representation aggregates and standardizes multiple cloud providers' non-analogous metrics into a single comparable value, simplifying the complexity of cross-cloud resource allocation while preserving the essential information from each source
2Loss of information
If resource allocation is managed across hybrid cloud systems with non-analogous metrics and varying cost models, then transparency into resource allocation improves, but measurement and detection difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The efficiency index serves as a universal measurement tool that can evaluate resource allocation across multiple cloud providers with different metrics and cost models. This single measurement mechanism performs the function of comparing heterogeneous resources, tracking utilization efficiency, and enabling transparent allocation decisions across the entire hybrid cloud system without requiring separate measurement approaches for each provider
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter transformation to convert diverse cloud metrics into a standardized efficiency measurement. By changing the parameter representation from provider-specific non-analogous metrics to a unified efficiency index, the system achieves transparent resource allocation visibility while reducing the difficulty of measurement through normalization and standardization
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AI summary
Example implementations relate to calculating a weighted efficiency index. An example implementation includes fetching a public resource utilization metric and a public cloud resources cost. A private resource utilization metric is collected and a private cloud resources cost is calculated. A weighted efficiency index is calculated from the public cloud resources cost, the private cloud resources cost, or any combination thereof, and a weighted deviation from an ideal resource utilization percentage. The weighted efficiency index may be displayed on a user interface.