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US 10,257,268 B2Granted
Distributed peer-to-peer data center management
AssigneeVapor IO Inc.
InventorsAndrew Brian Cencini, Steven White, Cole Malone Crawford
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Abstract
Provided is a process of managing rack-mounted computing devices in a data center with a distributed peer-to-peer management system, the process including: determining roles of data-center management computing devices in a distributed peer-to-peer data-center management system; receiving, via an out-of-band network, a data-center management command at a given data-center management computing device; distributing, based on at least some of the roles, via the out-of-band network, the data-center management command.
Claims40
A method of managing rack-mounted computing devices in a data center with a distributed peer-to-peer management system, the method comprising:
- determining roles of data-center management computing devices in a distributed peer-to-peer data-center management system;
- receiving, via an out-of-band network, a data-center management command at a given data-center management computing device;
- distributing, based on at least some of the roles, via the out-of-band network, the data-center management command from the given data-center management computing device to a first plurality of other data-center management computing devices;
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- for each of the first plurality of other data-center management computing devices, distributing, based at least some of the roles, via the out-of-band network, the data-center management command to a respective second plurality of other data-center management computing devices, wherein:
- the given data-center management computing device, the first plurality of other data-center management computing devices, and the respective second pluralities of other data-center management computing devices are each configured to manage a respective plurality of rack-mounted computing devices;
- each of the pluralities of respective rack-mounted computing devices executes an in-band application that communicates on an in-band network different from the out-of-band network;
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- the data-center management command is a command to update or otherwise configure a microkernel, a virtual machine, a container, an operating system, or an application executing on one or more data-center management computing devices;
- determining, with at least one of the first plurality of other data-center management computing devices, that the given data-center management computing device has failed;
- electing, with at least one of the first plurality of other data-center management computing devices, one of the first plurality of other data-center management computing devices to serve as a replacement to the given data-center management computing device in at least some roles filled by the given data-center management computing device;
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- distributing a result of the election to each the first plurality of other data-center management computing devices.
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A system, comprising:
- a plurality of racks, each rack comprising:
- a plurality of rack-mounted computing devices, each of the rack-mounted computing devices configured to execute an in-band application that communicates on an in-band network different from an out-of-band network;
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- a medium storing instructions configured to instantiate a rack controller coupled to each of the rack-mounted computing devices, wherein each rack controller is configured to effectuate operations comprising:
- determining roles of the rack controllers in a distributed peer-to-peer data-center management system;
- receiving, via the out-of-band network, a data-center management command at a first rack controller;
- distributing, based on at least some of the roles, via the out-of-band network, the data-center management command from the first rack controller to a first plurality of other rack controllers;
- for each of the first plurality of other rack controllers, distributing, based at least some of the roles, via the out-of-band network, the data-center management command to a respective second plurality of other rack controllers, wherein
- the first rack controller, the first plurality of other rack controllers, and the respective second pluralities of other rack controllers are each configured to manage a given rack in the plurality of racks comprising a given plurality of the rack-mounted computing devices;
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- the data-center management command is a command to update or otherwise configure a microkernel, a virtual machine, a container, an operating system, or an application executing on one or more rack controllers;
- determining, with at least one of the first plurality of other rack controllers, that the first rack controller has failed;
- electing, with at least one of the first plurality of other rack controllers, one of the first plurality of other rack controllers to serve as a replacement to the first rack controller in at least some roles filled by the first rack controller;
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- distributing a result of the election to each the first plurality of other rack controllers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.