Hybrid Multi-Cloud Resource Pool Networking With Unified Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The management of hybrid multi-cloud multi-pool architectures is complex due to technical isolation between resource pools from different vendors, leading to inefficient network interworking and lack of unified management tools.
Innovation Solution
A cloud management platform provides a unified management tool for hybrid multi-cloud multi-pool networks, enabling network interworking services by configuring terminal nodes, setting connection statuses, and applying routing and security policies across resource pools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If resource pools from different vendors are integrated to form a hybrid multi-cloud multi-pool architecture, then cloud infrastructure capabilities and service versatility are improved, but network configuration complexity and management difficulty increase due to technical isolation between resource pools
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network interworking device as an intermediary component that mediates communication between resource pools from different vendors. This device translates and adapts network protocols, making heterogeneous resource pools compatible with each other, thereby reducing configuration complexity while maintaining the versatility benefits of multi-vendor integration
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal network interworking mechanism that can handle multiple vendor-specific resource pools through a single standardized interface. The network interworking device performs multiple functions including protocol translation, address mapping, and connection management, eliminating the need for separate configuration approaches for each vendor
2Adaptability or versatility
If network interworking is established between multiple resource pools to enable business data sharing, then service functionality is improved, but configuration time and management efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary configuration actions by pre-establishing network interworking templates and default connection profiles for common resource pool scenarios. These pre-configured templates can be quickly deployed and customized, significantly reducing the time required to establish network interworking between resource pools while maintaining full data sharing functionality
3Ease of operation
If a unified management tool is introduced to manage hybrid multi-cloud multi-pool networks, then ease of operation is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex network management functionality into a separate, dedicated network interworking device that operates independently from the resource pools it manages. This extraction allows the unified management tool to focus on high-level operations while the interworking device handles low-level protocol translations and configurations, reducing the perceived complexity for users
Data Source
AI summary
A cloud management platform obtains service configuration information configured by a tenant on the cloud management platform, where the service configuration information includes one or more of the following: a network identifier, a terminal node identifier, and a terminal node type. The network identifier indicates identifiers of networks including at least two resource pools that establish a network connection, each terminal node corresponds to one resource pool, the resource pools correspond to a plurality of service providers, each resource pool includes a plurality of computing nodes, the plurality of computing nodes are used to run a business of the tenant, and the terminal node type indicates a type of a resource pool corresponding to the terminal node. The cloud management platform creates corresponding terminal nodes for the at least two resource pools based on the terminal node type.