US 2021/0081237 A1Published application

Cloning a Computing Environment Through Node Reconfiguration and With Node Modification

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsAneesh Azhakesan Sujatha, Biju Narayanan, Hari Gopinathan Nair Indira Devi, Jibu Thomas Thomas, Ravi Shankar

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Abstract

Techniques for cloning a computing environment while modifying components of the computing environment are disclosed. A cloning request specifies a modification to a source environment. A cloning engine determines one or more additional non-requested modifications to be made in a destination environment necessitated by the requested modification. A modified destination specification is generated including the requested modification and the one or more additional non-requested modifications. A destination stack is generated, and the destination environment is provisioned according to the destination stack.

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Dependent claims

One or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause:

obtaining a source specification of a source environment, the source specification specifying a first set of characteristics of the source environment, the first set of characteristics defining (a) a first plurality of components and (b) a first set of configurations corresponding to the first plurality of components;
obtaining a source stack of a source environment, the source stack identifying hardware interconnections between hardware components in the source environment that implement the first set of characteristics defined by the source environment;
receiving a request to clone the source environment to a destination environment, the request specifying a first modification to the first set of characteristics, the first modification comprising removal of at least a first component of the first plurality of components;
generating a first destination specification for the destination environment at least by:
based on the request for the first modification, removing the first component to generate a second plurality of components for the first destination specification;
identifying a second modification for updating the first destination specification that is necessitated by the first modification, the second modification comprising at least one of:
(a) removing a second component, from the second plurality of components, that comprises a dependency relationship with the first component;
(b) modifying a storage capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
and
(c) modifying a compute capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
executing the second modification to obtain a second destination specification;
generating a destination stack, for the destination environment, based on at least one of the second destination specification and the source stack.

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One or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause:

obtaining a source specification of a source environment, the source specification specifying a first set of characteristics of the source environment, the first set of characteristics defining (a) a first plurality of components and (b) a first set of configurations corresponding to the first plurality of components;
obtaining a source stack of a source environment, the source stack identifying hardware interconnections between hardware components in the source environment that implement the first set of characteristics defined by the source environment;
receiving a request to clone the source environment to a destination environment, the request specifying a first modification to the first set of characteristics, the first modification comprising removal of at least a first component of the first plurality of components;
comparing the request to clone the source environment with at least one of the source specification and the source stack to identify the first modification to the first set of characteristics;
identifying a second modification for updating the request to clone the source environment that is necessitated by the first modification, the second modification comprising at least one of:
(a) removing a second component, from the second plurality of components, that comprises a dependency relationship with the first component;
(b) modifying a storage capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
and
(c) modifying a compute capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
generating a destination specification based on the source specification and the first and second modifications;
and
generating a destination stack, for the destination environment, based on the destination specification.

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A method, comprising:

obtaining a source specification of a source environment, the source specification specifying a first set of characteristics of the source environment, the first set of characteristics defining (a) a first plurality of components and (b) a first set of configurations corresponding to the first plurality of components;
obtaining a source stack of a source environment, the source stack identifying hardware interconnections between hardware components in the source environment that implement the first set of characteristics defined by the source environment;
receiving a request to clone the source environment to a destination environment, the request specifying a first modification to the first set of characteristics, the first modification comprising removal of at least a first component of the first plurality of components;
comparing the request to clone the source environment with at least one of the source specification and the source stack to identify the first modification to the first set of characteristics;
identifying a second modification for updating the request to clone the source environment that is necessitated by the first modification, the second modification comprising at least one of:
(a) removing a second component, from the second plurality of components, that comprises a dependency relationship with the first component;
(b) modifying a storage capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
and
(c) modifying a compute capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
generating a destination specification based on the source specification, the first modification, and the second modification;
and
generating a destination stack, for the destination environment, based on the destination specification.

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An apparatus, comprising:

an environment manager configured to manage one or more computing environments, the environment manager configured to:
obtain a source specification of a source environment, the source specification specifying a first set of characteristics of the source environment, the first set of characteristics defining (a) a first plurality of components and (b) a first set of configurations corresponding to the first plurality of components;
and
obtain a source stack of a source environment, the source stack identifying hardware interconnections between hardware components in the source environment that implement the first set of characteristics defined by the source environment;
a cloning engine configured to:
receive a request to clone the source environment to a destination environment, the request specifying a first modification to the first set of characteristics, the first modification comprising removal of at least a first component of the first plurality of components;
obtain, from the environment manager, at least one of the source specification and the source stack;
compare the request to clone the source environment with at least one of the source specification and the source stack to identify the first modification to the first set of characteristics;
identify a second modification for updating the request to clone the source environment that is necessitated by the first modification, the second modification comprising at least one of:
(a) removing a second component, from the second plurality of components, that comprises a dependency relationship with the first component;
(b) modifying a storage capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
and
(c) modifying a compute capacity of the second plurality of components based on the removal of the first component;
generate a destination specification based on the source specification, the first modification, and the second modification;
and
generate a destination stack, for the destination environment, based on the destination specification;
and
an orchestration engine configured to receive the destination stack from the cloning engine and to provision the destination environment based on the destination stack.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/895,812Filed 8 Jun 2020
Priority: 13 Sep 2019
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04L 41/0846
Configuration by using pre-existing information, e.g. using templates or copying from other elements: based on copy from other elements
G06F 9/4868
The task being a mobile agent, i.e. specifically designed to migrate: with creation or replication
G06F 9/5072
Partitioning or combining of resources: grid computing
G06F 9/5077
Partitioning or combining of resources: logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources

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Application62/899,903Us provisional application · filed 13 Sep 2019
US 11,360,807 B2Related patent
US 2021/0081237 A1This patent

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