Modular Virtual Private Data Center Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IT and network architectures face challenges in providing efficient, cost-effective, and customizable virtual data center solutions for enterprise customers, with a need for greater distribution, virtualization, and management tools to optimize resource usage and customer control.
Innovation Solution
A modular Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) structure within a cloud of Physical Data Centers, utilizing site managers to provision, monitor, and maintain VPDCs across multiple sites, with customizable service levels and automated reconfiguration, enabling seamless migration and efficient resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If virtual computing environments are provided by outside companies using shared resources, then cost-effectiveness improves, but customer control and customization capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the virtual data center into modular components (virtual compute resources, virtual storage resources, virtual network resources) that can be independently selected and configured. This allows customers to customize their virtual environments while still benefiting from shared infrastructure, resolving the contradiction between cost-effectiveness and customization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides dynamic provisioning and configuration capabilities that allow customers to adjust their virtual resource allocations according to changing needs. This dynamic control mechanism enables customization without requiring dedicated physical infrastructure, maintaining cost-effectiveness while improving customer adaptability.
2Productivity
If multiple virtual machines run on a single large server, then resource efficiency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal virtualization platform that can accommodate multiple types of workloads and applications on shared physical infrastructure. This multi-functional approach maximizes resource efficiency while providing standardized management interfaces that reduce the perceived complexity for customers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces virtualization management software as an intermediary layer between physical resources and virtual machines. This intermediary abstracts the complexity of resource management, enabling efficient multi-tenant operations while presenting simplified control interfaces to customers.
3Reliability
If each customer plans for peak usage individually, then service reliability improves, but total resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple customers' peak usage planning into a coordinated shared resource pool. By combining resources and using centralized management, the system can allocate capacity dynamically based on aggregate demand patterns rather than individual peak requirements, reducing total resources needed while maintaining service reliability through shared redundancy.
Data Source
AI summary
An automatically provisioned virtual private data center provided on a cloud network of multiple virtual private data centers that reside in one or more physical data centers and may migrate between multiple physical data centers. The VPDC is a encapsulated virtual structure provisioned according to customer selected options within a virtual data center having one or more foundation nodes. Different service profiles are provided in a provisioning interface to the customer, each defining several configuration specifics that are used to automatically provision a VPDC for the customer.