MIaaS Cloud Instance Image Adjustment Plan
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Solution Overview
Problem
Migrating instances to a Managed-Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS) cloud is challenging due to the need for standardization and compatibility with cloud standards, which existing methods often require costly and time-consuming reinstall procedures, and lack efficient automation.
Innovation Solution
A method for transferring instances to a MIaaS cloud as an image, formulating an image adjustment plan to comply with cloud standards, and on-boarding the adjusted image, allowing for rapid migration without reinstalling, and enabling automated adjustments and registration into cloud management systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If instances are migrated to MIaaS cloud using existing methods, then migration can be performed, but migration cost increases and time consumption increases due to reinstall procedures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the copying principle by transferring customer instances as images to the MIaaS cloud environment, preserving the instance state without requiring reinstall procedures. This image-based migration approach maintains application functionality while eliminating time-consuming reinstall steps, directly resolving the contradiction between migration speed and time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by formulating an image adjustment plan before final migration, capturing all necessary adjustments in advance. This allows the system to prepare adjustment specifications and validation criteria beforehand, enabling rapid execution of adjustments after migration without additional downtime or reinstall operations.
2Reliability
If instances are transferred as images without adjustments, then migration speed increases, but compliance with cloud standards cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies feedback by implementing a validation process that checks adjusted images against MIaaS cloud standard specifications. The system provides feedback on compliance status during the adjustment process, allowing automated or manual corrections to ensure standard conformity while managing complexity through structured validation steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses preliminary action by capturing all necessary adjustments in an image adjustment plan before execution. This includes documenting standard compliance requirements, adjustment specifications, and validation criteria in advance, which simplifies the actual adjustment process and ensures reliability through pre-planned compliance verification.
3Productivity
If manual adjustment processes are used, then flexibility is maintained, but migration cost increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling automated adjustment execution where the system autonomously applies captured adjustments to transferred images based on predefined specifications. The adjustment process automatically validates compliance and executes corrections without requiring manual intervention for each adjustment step, significantly improving productivity while maintaining flexibility through configurable adjustment rules.
4Ease of operation
If server downtime is required for adjustments, then adjustment thoroughness can be ensured, but service disruption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by capturing all necessary adjustments in an image adjustment plan before migration execution. This allows adjustments to be prepared and validated in advance, enabling them to be applied to transferred images without requiring server downtime or interrupting customer services during the migration process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by transferring the customer instance as an image to the MIaaS cloud environment first, then applying adjustments to the copied image. This separation of transfer and adjustment operations allows adjustments to be made to the image copy without affecting the running customer instance, eliminating service disruption while ensuring thorough adjustment validation.
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AI summary
An arbitrary customer instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image. An image adjustment plan, capturing at least one adjustment required to render the transferred image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, is formulated. The image adjustment plan is executed to adjust the transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment. The adjusted image is on-boarded into the managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof.