US 9,842,042 B2Granted

Datacenter management computing system

AssigneeBank of America Corporation

InventorsRaminder Chhatwal, Suresh Nair, Tal Sadan, Minesh Shah

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Abstract

A system may include an active first point of deployment (POD) configured to provide a specified business functionality and may include a first server and a first instance of a platform to provide the specified business function. A dark second POD may be configured to include a second server and a second instance of the platform template, where the first platform template instance comprises a different version than the second platform template instance. A POD management computing device may test an operation of the second POD in parallel with the operation of the first POD. The POD management computing device may upgrade the business functionality by deactivating the first POD and activating the second POD to provide the specified business function using the second instance of the platform template.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

an active first point of deployment (POD) communicatively coupled to a plurality of user devices via a network to provide a specified business functionality using client data communicated via the network, the first POD comprising one or more first servers and a first instance of a platform template configured for providing the specified business function by the one or more first servers, wherein the first instance of the platform template includes at least a first instance of a server template and wherein the first instance of the server template includes at least a first instance of a product template and the first instance of the product template includes at least two application templates;
and
a second POD communicatively coupled to the network, the second POD comprising one or more second servers and a second instance of the platform template operational on the one or more second servers, wherein a first version of the server template of the first instance of the platform template is different than a second version of the server template of the second instance of the platform template and wherein the second POD is actively communicating on the network and is not accessible to users via a user device, wherein the second version of the server template includes at least one difference in the at least two application templates;
backup third POD communicatively coupled to the network, the third POD comprising one or more backup servers and a third instance of the platform template, wherein the third POD is configured to provide the specified business functionality via the network when the active first POD is not in operation, and wherein a version of the third instance of the platform template is the same as the version of the first instance of the platform template;
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a POD management computing device communicatively coupled to the network, wherein the POD management computing device uses at least a portion of live client data for testing the second POD in parallel with an operation of the first POD processing the same live data and wherein, after completion of the testing, the POD management computing device deactivates the first POD and activates the second POD to provide the specified business function using the second instance of the platform template, wherein upon activation of the second POD, the first POD is configured as a backup POD, the second POD is configured as the active POD and the third POD is configured as a dark POD to be configured with an updated version of the platform template.

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A system comprising:

an active first point of deployment (POD) comprising a first data center configured to provide a business functionality to a user via a network, the first POD comprising a first plurality of servers configured to operate using a first version of a platform template;
a dark second POD comprising a second data center configured to provide a same business functionality using a second plurality of servers, the second POD configured to operate using a second version of the platform template, wherein the second version comprises an upgrade of at least one hardware component of the platform template and wherein the second POD is actively communicating on the network and is not accessible to users via a user device;
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a third backup POD comprising a third data center configured to provide the business functionality to the user via the network when the active POD is not available via the network, the third backup POD comprising a first plurality of servers configured to operate using a first version of a platform template;
and
wherein an upgrade of at least one component of the platform template is performed by switching user communication from the first POD to the second POD, and wherein upon activation of the second POD, the first POD is configured as a backup POD, the second POD is configured as the active POD and the third POD is configured as the dark POD to be configured with an updated version of the platform template.

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A method comprising:

identifying, by a version manager, a first version of a platform template operational at a first point of deployment (POD) as an active POD for providing a business functionality to a user via a network, wherein the first point of deployment comprises a data center including one or more servers;
determining, by a configuration management computing device, whether a second version of a platform template stored in a template repository is ready for deployment, wherein the second version is different than the first version;
when the second version of the platform template is ready for deployment, configuring, by the configuration management computing device, a second POD at the data center to operate using an instance of a second version of the platform template comprising an updated version of an associated server template, wherein the second POD is configured as a dark POD that is actively communicating on the network and is not accessible to the user via a user device;
activating, by a switching tool, the second POD by routing communications received from one or more user devices via the network to the second POD;
deactivating, by the switching tool, the first POD, wherein upon activation of the second POD, the first POD is configured as a dark POD, the second POD is configured as the active POD;
identifying an error with operation of the second POD after activation;
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in response to the error, reactivating the first POD as the active POD and reverting the second POD as the dark POD.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/496,918Filed 25 Sep 2014
Published: US 2016/0092343 A131 Mar 2016
Granted: 12 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 11/3698
Prevention of errors by analysis, debugging or testing of software: environments for analysis, debugging or testing of software
G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06F 11/368
Test management: for test version control, e.g. updating test cases to a new software version
G06F 11/3688
Test management: for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites