Logical Workload Domain Clusters for Unified SDDC Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
In software-defined data centers (SDDCs), managing large numbers of workload domains and their associated clusters is cumbersome, as existing solutions do not allow for uniform configuration management, desired state management, or lifecycle updates across hosts, leading to inefficiencies in resource allocation and maintenance.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a logical workload domain (LWD) system that groups workload domains and clusters based on criteria, enabling unified management, automatic resource optimization, and simultaneous updates across clusters, using controllers like LWD management and cluster operator controllers to configure, deploy, and upgrade resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If workload domains and clusters are managed individually using existing solutions, then each domain can be configured independently, but the management process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple workload domains and clusters into a unified logical workload domain cluster structure. This allows centralized management of previously individual domains, enabling simultaneous configuration updates across multiple domains through a single management interface, thereby reducing management complexity and time requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The logical workload domain cluster introduces universal management capabilities that can apply configurations, updates, and policies across multiple workload domains and clusters simultaneously. This multi-functional approach replaces individual domain management operations with a single universal control mechanism
2Stability of the object's composition
If uniform configuration management is implemented across all workload domains, then consistency is improved, but the complexity of the management system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new hierarchical dimension by creating logical workload domain clusters that group multiple workload domains and clusters. This additional organizational layer enables uniform configuration management across domains without requiring direct complex interconnections between individual domains, thereby maintaining consistency while managing system complexity
3Productivity
If lifecycle updates are performed individually on each host and cluster, then each component can be updated independently, but the overall maintenance efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines lifecycle update operations across multiple hosts and clusters within a logical workload domain cluster. This merging enables simultaneous application of updates to all members of the cluster, transforming individual sequential update operations into a single coordinated operation, thereby significantly improving maintenance efficiency and reducing time loss
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to generate and manage logical workload domain clusters in a computing environment. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine that a first resource usage of a first cluster in a first workload domain satisfies a threshold indicative of an upper limit of resource usage in the first cluster, identify a second cluster in a second workload domain having an availability based on a second resource usage represented resource usage data, the second workload domain logically grouped with the first workload domain based on a criterion, and reallocate a host from the second cluster to the first cluster.