Layered Information Model for Datacenter Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Data center management is complex due to the variety of hardware and software components, which makes it difficult to obtain and organize unified information, and traditional management software lacks context-awareness, leading to inefficient navigation and interaction.
Innovation Solution
A system that integrates with different data center management systems using a layered information model based on directed graphs, allowing for context-aware navigation through human-machine interaction methods like gesture, voice, and augmented reality, and orchestrates existing IT services into a unified model.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional management software is used to manage data center hardware and software components, then basic management functions are provided, but the system lacks context-awareness and navigation efficiency is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a wearable device as an intermediary between the user and the complex data center management system. This wearable device provides context-aware navigation and interaction capabilities, allowing users to efficiently navigate and manage data center components without directly interfacing with the underlying system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device serves multiple functions including navigation, information display, and interaction control for data center management. By consolidating these functions into a single universal interface, the system improves ease of operation while managing complexity through a unified multi-functional device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive data center management is implemented to handle variety of hardware and software, then management capability is improved, but complexity of obtaining and organizing unified information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex data center information into structured layers or categories that can be systematically organized and accessed. This segmentation approach allows comprehensive management of diverse hardware and software components while reducing the complexity of obtaining and organizing unified information through a structured hierarchical framework.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device acts as an intermediary that automatically handles the complexity of information organization and presentation. It translates comprehensive data center information into user-friendly formats, maintaining high adaptability while shielding users from information organization complexity.
3Loss of information
If detailed information about data center components is provided, then completeness of information is improved, but difficulty of navigating and interacting with the information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic information presentation where the level of detail and navigation complexity adapts based on user context, preferences, and current tasks. This dynamic approach ensures complete information is available when needed while automatically simplifying navigation for routine operations, thus maintaining information completeness while improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides different levels of information detail and navigation complexity tailored to specific contexts, user roles, and tasks. Rather than uniformly presenting all information at the same level of detail, the patent applies local quality by customizing information presentation to match specific operational needs, reducing overall navigation difficulty while maintaining necessary information completeness.
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AI summary
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a system for datacenter management. The method includes retrieving logical relationship information regarding a datacenter and generating a layered information model of the logical relationship information regarding the datacenter. The datacenter then may be managed according to commands received from a datacenter management device configured to navigate the layered information model.