Workload Tracking Markers for Metadata Reconciliation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Infrastructure automation platforms face challenges in tracking components across computing environments due to movements orchestrated by other management entities, such as site recovery and load balancing, which can result in difficulties in maintaining accurate metadata records.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for reconciling moved workloads in a computing environment, which involves identifying workloads with tracking markers, checking their presence in an inventory database, and updating their metadata when the markers are found, thereby ensuring accurate tracking and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If other management entities orchestrate movement or replication of components, then site recovery and load balancing purposes are achieved, but the infrastructure automation platform loses track of components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces tracking markers as intermediary objects that attach to workloads and persist across movements. These markers serve as mediators between multiple management entities, allowing the infrastructure automation platform to track components even when other entities orchestrate their movement. The marker acts as a persistent identifier that travels with the workload through various management operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of the tracking marker information in the inventory database that persists even when the original workload moves or is replicated. This copying mechanism ensures that the infrastructure automation platform maintains an accurate record of component locations and states, resolving the tracking loss issue while allowing other entities to freely orchestrate movements.
2Loss of information
If the infrastructure automation platform tracks all components, then accurate metadata records are maintained, but difficulty arises when other entities delete original components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the tracking system into two independent parts: tracking markers attached to workloads and inventory database records. This segmentation allows the system to track components without tightly coupling the infrastructure automation platform's tracking functionality with the actual component lifecycle managed by other entities. When components are deleted or moved, the marker and database record can be independently updated or removed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system periodically checks whether tracking markers still exist in the computing environment and reconciles the inventory database accordingly. This feedback loop ensures metadata accuracy by detecting when tracked components have been deleted or moved by other management entities and updating the inventory records to reflect the current state.
3Stability of the object's composition
If workload movements are monitored and reconciled, then metadata consistency is maintained, but additional processing steps are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies tracking markers to workloads in advance, before any movement or management operations occur. This preliminary action ensures that when workloads are moved, replicated, or deleted by other management entities, the tracking infrastructure is already in place to detect and record these changes without requiring additional real-time processing steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs periodic reconciliation operations that check the status of tracked workloads and update the inventory database at scheduled intervals. This periodic action balances metadata consistency with processing efficiency by not requiring continuous monitoring, instead performing updates at manageable intervals when changes are detected or due for review.
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AI summary
System and computer-implemented method for reconciling moved workloads for a management component in a computing environment determines whether an updated workload has a tracking marker that moves with the workload and requires remediation. When the tracking marker is found in an inventory database of the management component, the metadata of the workload is reconciled in the management component.