Monitoring Support System for Virtual Server Migration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The monitoring system's inability to share monitoring configurations and performance information across data centers when virtual servers are migrated, leading to incomplete incident management and reduced operational efficiency in cloud computing environments.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring support system that migrates monitoring configurations, performance information, and incident data from the source to the destination data center during virtual server migration, ensuring seamless monitoring and incident management across data centers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual server migration is implemented across data centers, then service continuity and scalability are improved, but monitoring configuration sharing and incident management capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by migrating monitoring configurations, performance information, and incident data from the source data center to the destination data center before the virtual server migration is completed. This ensures that the destination monitoring system is fully prepared with all necessary information to continue monitoring and incident management without interruption.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring support system acts as an intermediary that facilitates the transfer of monitoring configurations and incident data between data centers. It coordinates the migration process, ensuring that source and destination monitoring systems exchange necessary information seamlessly during the virtual server migration.
2Device complexity
If monitoring range is separated for each data center, then system simplicity is maintained, but complete incident management across migrated servers is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system transitions from a static, data-center-specific configuration to a dynamic configuration that automatically adapts during virtual server migration. The monitoring support system dynamically updates the destination monitoring system's configuration and incident data storage based on the migration status, enabling continuous incident management without increasing structural complexity.
3Ease of operation
If monitoring configurations are not shared during migration, then system operation simplicity is maintained, but performance analysis accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a copy of the source monitoring system's configuration and performance information and transfers it to the destination data center. This copying process ensures that the destination monitoring system receives complete and accurate performance data, enabling precise performance analysis while maintaining operational simplicity through automated configuration transfer.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a monitoring support system for supporting monitoring of the migration of an IT resource. The monitoring support system includes: a virtualization control part for migrating an IT resource from a first monitoring system as a migration source to a second monitoring system as a migration destination; an IT resource management table update part for updating the migration source IT resource stored in an IT resource table in which the migration source IT resource or the migration destination IT resource is associated with the physical server to which the IT resource belongs; and a monitoring configuration migration part for migrating the monitoring configuration of the migration source IT resource, from the first monitoring system to the second monitoring system.