Operational Integrity Validation Module for Converged Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managed infrastructure systems face challenges in ensuring proper deployment, operational integrity, and performance validation, particularly in converged and hyper-converged infrastructure environments, where resources are often fragmented and require optimized management techniques.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of an Operational Integrity and Performance Validation (OIPV) module that communicates with various infrastructure managers to perform operational integrity and performance validation operations, using task and performance manifests to monitor and report on the completion status and performance metrics of infrastructure tasks, ensuring they meet predefined thresholds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If operational integrity monitoring and performance validation are implemented in converged infrastructure systems, then system reliability and performance assurance are improved, but device complexity and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an Operational Integrity and Performance Validation (OIPV) module as an intermediary component that acts as a bridge between the infrastructure manager and the underlying hardware resources. This module automatically performs operational integrity checks and performance validation without requiring direct human intervention or complex manual management procedures. The OIPV module receives instructions from the infrastructure manager, executes validation tasks, and reports results back, thereby improving reliability while shielding users from the inherent complexity of managing converged infrastructure systems
Solution Approach 2:
The OIPV module implements self-service capabilities by automatically monitoring its own operational status and performing self-validation checks. The module can autonomously detect performance degradation, identify operational issues, and trigger appropriate validation sequences without external intervention. This self-monitoring and self-validation mechanism enhances system reliability while reducing the management overhead required for maintaining converged infrastructure systems
2Reliability
If comprehensive performance validation and operational integrity checks are performed, then system performance and reliability are ensured, but task completion time and processing duration increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by performing operational integrity checks and performance validation during system initialization, configuration, and deployment phases before the system enters production operation. The OIPV module validates hardware components, communication interfaces, and software configurations upfront to ensure everything is properly integrated. By completing comprehensive validation before deployment, the system avoids time-consuming troubleshooting and reconfiguration later, thus ensuring reliability without significantly impacting operational task completion time
Solution Approach 2:
The OIPV module implements periodic action by scheduling operational integrity checks and performance validation at regular intervals rather than continuously monitoring all parameters simultaneously. The module can perform lightweight checks frequently and more comprehensive validations less frequently, adjusting the intensity and frequency of validation based on system state and priority. This periodic approach ensures ongoing reliability while minimizing the time impact on normal operations by spreading validation tasks over time
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AI summary
An operational integrity and performance validation module performs operational integrity operations, performance validation operations, or both. Operational integrity operations may include: accessing an operational integrity schema comprising a task manifest identifying operational tasks and a performance manifest including performance thresholds for the tasks. The OIPV module communicates with different types of infrastructure managers and each schema may be associated with a particular infrastructure manager. The OIPV module may invoke the applicable infrastructure manager to perform the applicable tasks. For each task, the module may poll the infrastructure manager for status information and record completion status and time-to-complete information. Performance validation operations may include accessing a performance validation manifest, configuring an image manifest of a benchmark image in accordance with the performance validation operations, deploying the benchmark image to a node under test and instructing an image agent of the benchmark image to execute performance tests according with the image manifest.