Infrastructure Resource Visualization via Graphical Models
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers of network-based computing service providers face difficulties in defining, viewing, and modifying the infrastructure of applications, requiring significant manual technical effort and being costly and time-consuming, which acts as a barrier to utilizing these services.
Innovation Solution
A visual representation of the infrastructure is provided using graphical models that allow users to interact with and modify resources such as virtual machine instances, database resources, and storage resources within virtual or enhanced reality environments, with the ability to generate deployment templates for provisioning and updating resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual technical effort is used to define and configure infrastructure resources, then customization and control over resources are improved, but time consumption and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses deployment templates that store predefined configurations of infrastructure resources. These templates act as reusable copies that can be instantiated multiple times without manual reconfiguration, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining customization capabilities through template parameterization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary configuration work by pre-defining resource templates with common settings and relationships. This advance preparation eliminates the need for manual configuration during each deployment, reducing time consumption while preserving adaptability through template customization options.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual technical effort is used to define and configure infrastructure resources, then customization and control over resources are improved, but complexity of the process increases
Solution Approach 1:
Deployment templates capture and reuse complex resource configurations as standardized copies. This abstraction hides the underlying complexity from users while maintaining full customization capabilities through template parameters and variables.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments infrastructure configuration into modular templates that can be independently defined, stored, and combined. This segmentation reduces process complexity by breaking down complex configurations into manageable, reusable units while preserving adaptability through modular composition.
3Ease of operation
If visual representation and interaction interfaces are implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a visual interface as an intermediary layer between the user and the underlying infrastructure management system. This interface simplifies user interaction by providing intuitive visual representations and drag-and-drop operations, while the complexity of template management and resource provisioning remains handled automatically by the system backend.
Data Source
AI summary
Functionality is disclosed herein for visualizing and interacting with resources of an infrastructure in a network, such as a service provider network and/or other networks. A user, such as a customer of a service provider network, may interact with a visual representation of resources of an infrastructure for an application. For example, a customer may interact with graphical models that represent resources of the infrastructure. The customer may interact with a graphical model within the visual representation to change a setting of the associated resource, delete the associated resource, view operating data associated with the associated resource, and the like. In some examples, the visual representation is presented within a virtual reality or enhanced reality environment.