LCS Orchestrator for Shared Resource Life-Cycle Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional life-cycle management functions for Logically Composed Systems (LCSs) are challenging due to the dynamic composition and recomposition of resource devices, leading to limited functionality and difficulty in managing power cycling, resetting, and restarting, especially when devices are shared between systems.
Innovation Solution
An Information Handling System (IHS) with an orchestrator engine that identifies interdependencies between resource devices, determines available life-cycle management operations, and performs these operations based on client requests, providing seamless management for dynamically composed LCSs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If resource devices are dynamically allocated and shared between multiple LCSs, then resource utilization and scalability are improved, but life-cycle management complexity increases due to interdependencies between devices
Solution Approach 1:
An orchestrator component is introduced as an intermediary between the resource pool and LCSs. The orchestrator maintains a representation of the resource pool, identifies interdependencies between shared resource devices, and coordinates life-cycle management operations across multiple LCSs that share the same resources, thereby managing the complexity introduced by dynamic allocation and sharing
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the state parameters of resource devices (allocation status, operational state, dependency relationships) based on LCS requirements. The orchestrator tracks and manages these parameter changes to ensure proper coordination when resources are allocated, deallocated, or modified across different LCSs
2Ease of operation
If conventional life-cycle management functions are applied to LCSs with shared resources, then operational simplicity is maintained, but functionality is limited due to inability to manage interdependencies
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestrator acts as a mediator that transparently handles complex interdependency management, allowing users to access LCS resources and perform operations without needing to understand the underlying complexity. The orchestrator presents a simplified interface while managing the complex coordination of shared resources in the background
Solution Approach 2:
The life-cycle management functionality is segmented into distinct operations (allocation, deallocation, coordination, dependency management) that can be independently controlled and managed. This segmentation allows the system to provide targeted functionality for different operational scenarios while maintaining overall simplicity through the orchestrator's coordinated control
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AI summary
A Logically Composed System (LCS) life-cycle management system includes an orchestrator device coupled to resource devices. The orchestrator device configures the resource devices to provide an LCS to a client device. The orchestrator device also identifies interdependencies between the resource devices and, based on those interdependencies, determines life-cycle management operations available for the LCS and presents the life-cycle management operations to the client device. When the orchestrator device receives a request to perform a first life-cycle management operation on the LCS, it performs the first life-cycle management operation on the first LCS based on the interdependencies identified between the resource devices.