Virtual Infrastructure Deployment via Hardware BOM Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
In a bring-your-own-hardware (BYOH) model for software-defined data centers, software providers face challenges in deploying virtual infrastructure across diverse hardware devices with varying capabilities, requiring frequent updates to hardcoded deployment services, which is unscalable and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
The method involves retrieving hardware bills of materials (BOMs) for each hardware device, determining deployment policies based on these details, and deploying virtual infrastructure accordingly, allowing for centralized storage and management of certified hardware models without modifying microservices, thus supporting multiple hardware devices and configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If deployment service uses hardcoded logic for each certified hardware device model, then deployment can be performed on multiple hardware devices, but frequent updates are required as more hardware models are certified, making the system unscalable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the deployment service into separate microservices, where each microservice is responsible for a specific hardware device model. This allows independent deployment, management, and updating of each hardware model's deployment logic without affecting others, resolving the scalability issue while maintaining support for multiple hardware models.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a hardware abstraction layer that acts as an intermediary between the deployment service and physical hardware devices. This abstraction layer standardizes hardware-specific operations, allowing the deployment service to work with diverse hardware models through unified interfaces without requiring hardcoded logic for each model.
2Ease of operation
If software provider procures only a small variety of hardware device models, then deployment software can be simpler, but customer flexibility and choice are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal deployment service architecture that can handle multiple hardware device models through standardized interfaces and abstraction layers. This allows the same deployment software to work across diverse hardware models, providing customer flexibility while maintaining operational simplicity through unified management.
3Adaptability or versatility
If deployment service is updated frequently to support new hardware models, then hardware certification is supported, but maintenance overhead and deployment time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring deployment microservices for each hardware model with all necessary logic and parameters beforehand. When new hardware models need to be supported, new microservices can be deployed independently without affecting existing ones, significantly reducing update time and maintenance overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the deployment service dynamic by allowing microservices to be added, removed, or updated independently based on hardware certification needs. This dynamic architecture enables the system to adapt to new hardware models without requiring comprehensive updates to the entire deployment service, reducing maintenance time.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of deploying virtual infrastructure on hardware infrastructure to support execution of software on the virtual infrastructure, includes the steps of: retrieving a hardware bill of materials (BOM) separately for each of a plurality of hardware devices of a group of hardware devices by using identifying information of each of the plurality of hardware devices, wherein the retrieved hardware BOMs include details about hardware components of different hardware device models corresponding to the plurality of hardware devices; determining, based on the details from the retrieved hardware BOMs, policies to apply to a deployment of the virtual infrastructure on the plurality of hardware devices; and deploying the virtual infrastructure on the plurality of hardware devices according to the determined policies.