Integrated Virtualization Management for Edge Cloud Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current distributed edge cloud and cloud-computing environments face challenges in managing both containerized and virtual machine-based infrastructures, as many applications are still executed on virtual machines or bare metal, making it difficult to replace existing virtual machine infrastructures with container infrastructures.
Innovation Solution
An integrated management method and structure that allows for the simultaneous management of containers and virtual machines, enabling single-node and multi-node scale-up in a distributed cloud. This includes a processor-configured apparatus with memory to store data and perform user requests, classify them based on virtualization models, and provide integrated management of these models.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual machine infrastructure is used to support legacy applications, then application compatibility is maintained, but system complexity increases due to managing both VM and container infrastructures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges virtual machine and container management into a unified orchestration platform that can manage both virtualization types through a single interface, reducing the complexity of managing separate infrastructures while maintaining support for legacy applications running on VMs and modern applications in containers
Solution Approach 2:
The orchestration platform is designed with universal capabilities to handle both virtual machine and container workloads, providing multi-functional management that adapts to different application requirements without requiring separate management systems
2Loss of energy
If container infrastructure is adopted for resource efficiency, then resource utilization improves, but legacy applications cannot be supported
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the infrastructure into container-based nodes for efficient resource utilization and virtual machine-based nodes for legacy application support, allowing each segment to optimize for its specific purpose while being managed uniformly by the orchestration platform
3Ease of manufacture
If separate management systems are used for virtual machines and containers, then each system can be optimized independently, but overall system management becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestration platform serves as an intermediary layer between the user and both virtual machine and container infrastructures, providing unified management capabilities while allowing the underlying virtualization systems to maintain their own optimization characteristics
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is an apparatus, method, and storage medium for integrated management of virtualization of computer resources. The apparatus receives a user request from a user; classifies the received user request depending on virtualization models for the one or more nodes, provides the classified user request to at least one interface of the virtualization models and performs an integration manager of the virtualization models.