Virtual Function Deployment via Centralized Metadata Orchestration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The deployment of virtual functions in cloud networks is hindered by disparate and often conflicting information sources, leading to errors and increased downtime, as well as longer deployment times due to the lack of a single accessible source for design and deployment guidelines.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes a central repository for metadata, allowing a processor to receive, analyze, and configure cloud networks by determining the feasibility of virtual function deployment, designing cloud plans, and optimizing network configurations to ensure consistent and error-free deployment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If disparate information sources are used for virtual function deployment, then deployment flexibility is maintained, but deployment errors increase and reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple disparate information sources into a single centralized metadata repository that stores all design guidelines, deployment specifications, and configuration data. This consolidation eliminates the use of multiple conflicting information sources while maintaining comprehensive deployment information, thereby improving reliability without sacrificing the complexity benefits of having multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a metadata-driven orchestration system that acts as an intermediary between the centralized metadata repository and the deployment process. This intermediary validates and coordinates all deployment actions against the stored metadata, ensuring consistency and reliability while managing the complexity of deployment operations.
2Manufacturing precision
If manual interference is used to correct errors from conflicting information, then deployment accuracy improves, but deployment time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-validating deployment system where the centralized metadata repository and orchestration automatically detect and prevent conflicts without requiring manual intervention. The system validates deployment configurations against stored metadata, automatically corrects inconsistencies, and ensures deployment accuracy through automated processes, thereby maintaining precision while eliminating time-consuming manual corrections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the orchestration system continuously monitors deployment progress and validates configurations against the centralized metadata. When conflicts or errors are detected, the system provides immediate feedback and automatically adjusts the deployment plan, ensuring precision without requiring manual intervention and reducing overall deployment time.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a centralized metadata repository is implemented, then deployment consistency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the centralized metadata repository and orchestration system to serve multiple functions: storing design guidelines, validating configurations, coordinating deployment actions, and providing feedback mechanisms. By making this single system multi-functional, the patent achieves deployment consistency without proportionally increasing system complexity, as one centralized component replaces multiple distributed functions.
4Productivity
If automated orchestration is used for virtual function deployment, then deployment speed increases, but automation capability requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-storing all deployment metadata, design guidelines, and configuration specifications in the centralized repository before deployment begins. The orchestration system uses these pre-prepared instructions to automatically coordinate deployment actions without requiring complex real-time decision-making or advanced automation capabilities during the actual deployment process, thereby increasing speed while managing automation requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes receiving, by a processor, metadata for deploying a virtual function on a cloud network. The method may include determining, by the processor, whether deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata. The method may include based on the determination that the deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata, designing, by the processor, a cloud plan, or a transport plan. The method may include determining, based on the metadata, a network configuration to implement the cloud plan or the transport plan. The method may include configuring, by the processor, the cloud network using the network configuration.