Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud System for SAP Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is no centralized end-to-end procedure for guiding overall application deployment across disparate infrastructures in hybrid cloud systems, particularly for SAP, due to differences in infrastructure and functionality between public and private clouds.
Innovation Solution
An orchestrated hybrid cloud system for SAP, comprising a cloud service interfacing module (Bluebox), a cloud service consuming interface module (SAP LaMa), and a cloud service processing module (ServiceNow), which enables user management, resource selection, and orchestration across a heterogeneous network environment, including SAP HANA virtual and physical servers, and application servers, with features like metadata registration, security, monitoring, and service level management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If public and private clouds are combined in hybrid cloud infrastructure, then system flexibility and resource utilization are improved, but infrastructure heterogeneity and deployment complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized deployment orchestration platform that acts as an intermediary between users and the heterogeneous hybrid cloud infrastructure. This platform provides unified deployment procedures that abstract away the underlying infrastructure differences between public and private clouds, allowing users to deploy applications without directly managing the complexity of multiple cloud environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The deployment orchestration platform implements universal deployment procedures that can operate across different cloud infrastructures (public, private, and hybrid). The system provides multi-functional capabilities including resource provisioning, application deployment, and management across heterogeneous environments through a single unified interface, eliminating the need for separate deployment processes for each cloud type.
2Productivity
If centralized deployment procedures are implemented across hybrid cloud infrastructure, then deployment efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the deployment process into distinct functional modules including resource provisioning, application deployment, configuration management, and monitoring. Each module handles specific aspects of the deployment lifecycle independently, allowing for streamlined automated procedures while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes parameter-based configuration to manage deployment complexity. By abstracting infrastructure-specific details into configurable parameters and templates, the platform can efficiently execute standardized deployment procedures across hybrid clouds while adapting to different environments through parameter adjustment rather than procedural complexity.
3Productivity
If virtualization technologies are used to run SAP on cloud platforms, then resource utilization is improved, but infrastructure heterogeneity between public and private clouds increases
Solution Approach 1:
The deployment orchestration platform serves as an intermediary that translates between the virtualized SAP application layer and the underlying heterogeneous cloud infrastructures. It manages the compatibility layer that allows virtualized SAP instances to run efficiently on both public and private clouds while abstracting away the infrastructure differences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements universal virtualization management capabilities that can provision and manage SAP workloads across different cloud platforms. The orchestration platform provides multi-functional support for various virtualization technologies and cloud infrastructures through a unified interface, ensuring consistent resource utilization and application performance across heterogeneous environments.
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AI summary
Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud system comprises in a heterogenous computer network environment having a plurality of resources loosely coupled to each other, the resources including memory devices and computer processors executing different operating system programs, each different operating system program having a set of kernel programs unique to that operating system program and a unique file space to constitute on one side: a SAP HANA virtual server and a SAP HANA physical server for creating on request several server instances constituting a server farm and managing an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system for storing data in main electronic memory of the resources, and on other side: a SAP application server using a row-oriented relational database management systems for storing data in disk memory, and subordinate programs operating together with the computer processors, at least some of the resources being available to perform remote execution services for application server farm.