Private Service Instances on Single-Tenant Hardware
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Solution Overview
Problem
In large-scale data centers, providing scalable and isolated computing and storage resources to customers while maintaining regulatory, security, and performance requirements is challenging due to the sharing of physical resources among multiple tenants, which can compromise security and performance.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a service provider network that allows customers to request private instances of virtualization services on single-tenant hardware, with a private API endpoint, enabling physical isolation and scalable resource allocation based on demand, using IP tunneling technology for network management and virtualization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If physical computing resources are shared among multiple tenants to improve resource utilization and reduce costs, then productivity and cost efficiency are improved, but security and performance isolation are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments physical computing resources into multiple virtual machines, each isolated and dedicated to a specific tenant. Virtualization technology divides physical hardware (servers, storage, networking) into separate virtual instances, ensuring that each tenant's workload runs in an isolated environment while sharing the underlying physical infrastructure. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining security isolation through virtual boundaries while enabling resource sharing for improved productivity.
2Productivity
If virtualization technologies are used to share computing resources among multiple customers, then resource efficiency is improved, but managing and provisioning physical computing resources becomes increasingly complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service provisioning capabilities that allow tenants to automatically request, allocate, and manage their own virtual computing resources through automated workflows. The system provides self-contained virtual machines with pre-configured resources, enabling tenants to provision infrastructure without manual intervention from service providers. This reduces provisioning complexity while maintaining high resource efficiency through automated virtualization management.
3Reliability
If single-tenant hardware is provided to ensure security and performance isolation, then reliability is improved, but resource utilization and cost efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple virtual machines from different tenants onto shared physical hardware infrastructure. By consolidating workloads from multiple tenants onto the same physical servers, storage systems, and networking equipment, the system achieves high resource utilization while maintaining performance isolation through virtualization. Each tenant experiences dedicated performance characteristics despite sharing physical resources with others, resolving the contradiction between reliability and productivity.
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus for providing scalable private services in service provider networking environments. A service provider that provides a large, public, multi-tenant implementation of a web service to multiple customers via a public API endpoint may allow a customer to request the establishment of a private implementation of the service. In response, a service private instance may be automatically and/or manually established for the customer that provides a private API endpoint to the service and that is at least in part implemented on single-tenant hardware that is not shared with other customers. The service private instance may initially be implemented as a relatively small scale and possibly limited implementation of the service when compared to the service public instance. As the needs of the customer grow, the service private instance may be automatically and/or manually scaled up from the initial implementation.