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US 9,426,024 B2Granted
Establishing communication between enterprise nodes migrated to a public cloud and private enterprise infrastructure
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorJohn M. Suit
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Abstract
An agent is deployed to a node of an enterprise network, where the agent is configured to establish communication with the enterprise network after migration of the node to a cloud infrastructure. Further, the node is migrated to the cloud infrastructure, and communication is established between the node and the enterprise network using the agent.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of virtual machine nodes in an enterprise network in view of an ontology describing the operational usage and state of the plurality of virtual machines;
- deploying a plurality of agents to the plurality of virtual machine nodes while the plurality of virtual machine nodes are connected to the enterprise network, wherein each agent is to establish communication with the enterprise network after migration of a respective virtual machine node to a cloud infrastructure;
- migrating, by a processing device, a virtual machine node of the plurality of virtual machine nodes to the cloud infrastructure external to the enterprise network, the virtual machine node having an agent of the plurality of agents, wherein the agent is to track information regarding one or more network connections of the virtual machine node;
- responsive to the migration of the virtual machine node to the cloud infrastructure, re-establishing communication between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network using the agent that causes data traffic to be communicated between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network in view of the tracked information regarding the one or more network connections;
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- updating the ontology in view of the re-established communication between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network, wherein the updating is facilitated by the agent.
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A system comprising:
- an administration console having a memory and a processing device, the processing device to:
- identify a plurality of virtual machine nodes in an enterprise network in view of an ontology describing the operational usage and state of the plurality of virtual machines;
- communicate with a proxy server, wherein the proxy server is to provide communications between an enterprise network comprising a plurality of virtual machine nodes and a cloud infrastructure;
- deploy a plurality of agents to the plurality of virtual machine nodes while the plurality of virtual machine nodes are connected to the enterprise network and prior to migration of the plurality of virtual machine nodes to the cloud infrastructure;
- migrate a virtual machine node of the plurality of virtual machine nodes to the cloud infrastructure, the virtual machine node having an agent of the plurality of agents, wherein the agent is to track information regarding one or more network connections of the virtual machine node, and wherein responsive to the migration of the virtual machine node to the cloud infrastructure, the agent is to re-establish communication with the administration console via the proxy server by causing data traffic to be communicated between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network in view of the tracked information regarding the one or more network connections;
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- update the ontology in view of the re-established communication between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network, wherein the updating is facilitated by the agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.