Remediation Queue for Workload Metadata Reconciliation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Infrastructure automation platforms, such as VMware vRealize Automation, face challenges in tracking all components within a computing environment, especially when other management entities like site recovery and load balancing systems move or replicate components, leading to difficulties in maintaining accurate metadata.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes a remediation queue to enqueue remediation entries for moved workloads, which are then processed to update metadata in the management component, ensuring that the infrastructure automation platform can accurately manage and reconcile moved workloads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the infrastructure automation platform tracks all component movements, then the accuracy of metadata is improved, but the system complexity increases due to multiple management entities
Solution Approach 1:
A remediation service is introduced as an intermediary component that receives notifications from various management entities about component movements, processes this information, and updates the infrastructure automation platform's metadata. This mediator approach allows the platform to maintain accurate tracking without directly managing all movement operations itself, thereby reducing system complexity while improving metadata accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where management entities notify the infrastructure automation platform about component movements, and the platform responds by updating its metadata through the remediation service. This continuous feedback loop ensures that metadata remains accurate and up-to-date while distributing the complexity of tracking across multiple coordinated components.
2Measurement precision
If the platform manually tracks all component movements, then metadata accuracy is improved, but the productivity decreases due to increased processing overhead
Solution Approach 1:
Management entities in the system automatically notify the infrastructure automation platform about their own component movements without requiring manual intervention or extensive processing from the platform. The remediation service processes these notifications efficiently, updating metadata in a streamlined manner that maintains accuracy while minimizing processing overhead and improving overall system productivity.
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AI summary
System and computer-implemented method for reconciling moved workloads for a management component in a computing environment uses a remediation queue to enqueue a remediation entry for a workload that has moved within the computing environment. The remediation entry for the workload is dequeued from the remediation queue and a remediation service on the remediation entry for the workload is executed to update metadata for the workload in the management component. A processing status of the remediation entry for the workload is stored at the management component.