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US 8,805,989 B2Granted
Business continuity on cloud enterprise data centers
AssigneeSungard Availability Services, LP
InventorsSatish K. Hemachandran, Christopher T. Sears
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Abstract
Business continuity services in a data processing environment where a service provider offers virtual data center services to numerous customers.
Claims19
A data processing system for hosting virtual machines in a cloud computing environment comprising:
- a first production cloud, operated at a first data processing platform at a first location, and for providing a set of virtual machines to a first set of customers;
- a second production cloud, operated on a second data processing platform at a second location;
- the second data processing platform also operating a continuity production cloud for the first set of customers;
- a cloud management service for:
- maintaining configuration of the set of virtual machines in the first production cloud as two or more Virtual Data Centers (VDCs) for a specific customer in the first set of customers;
- selective enablement of a business continuity service for failing over selected elements of the production cloud to the continuity production cloud on a per-customer and per-VDC basis,
- such that only a subset of the VDCs for the specific customer are enabled for failing over to the continuity production cloud, and
- wherein the selective enablement for failing over is further for:
- reassigning network addresses;
- updating firewall rules;
- creating virtual private networks;
- configuring load-balancing options;
- creating virtual local area networks;
- and
- bringing online VMs as specified by the user for each continuity enabled VDC.
12 more elements
A method for operating a cloud computing environment comprising:
- operating a first production cloud using a first data processing platform at a first location, and providing a set of virtual machines to a first customer;
- operating a second production cloud using a second data processing platform at a second location;
- the second data processing platform also operating as a continuity production cloud for the first customer;
- maintaining configuration of the set of virtual machines as two or more Virtual Data Centers (VDCs) for at least a specific customer in the first set of customers;
- and
- selectively enabling a business continuity service for failing over selected elements of the production cloud to the continuity cloud on a per-customer and per-VDC basis,
- such that only a subset of the VDCs for the specific customer are enabled for failing over the continuity production cloud;
- and
- in an event of a disaster at the production cloud, the method comprises further steps carried out at the continuity cloud as follows:
- network addresses are re-assigned;
- firewall rules are updated;
- virtual private networks are created;
- load-balancing options are configured;
- virtual local area networks are created;
- and
- a recovery plan is executed for each continuity enabled VDC to bring online VMs as specified by the user in an order of recovery.
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