Automation of management of cloud upgrades

    公开(公告)号:US11886917B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-30

    申请号:US17265998

    申请日:2019-07-24

    IPC分类号: G06F9/50

    CPC分类号: G06F9/5027

    摘要: Resources in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) system are upgraded in an iterative process. In response to an upgrade request indicating requested changes to a current configuration of the system, one or more graph representations of the current configuration and the requested changes are created. The graph representations include a control graph which has vertices representing resource groups, and edges representing dependences among the resource groups. A batch of resource groups is identified to be upgraded in a current iteration based on the dependencies and Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements including availability and elasticity of the system. Upgrade operations are executed on the identified batch using selected upgrade methods which handle potential incompatibilties during transition of system configurations. The graph representations are updated to include any new requested changes and recovery operations in response to feedback of failed upgrade operations. The iterative process proceed to upgrade remaining one or more resource groups.

    Rolling upgrade with dynamic batch size

    公开(公告)号:US10754694B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US16070097

    申请日:2016-01-29

    摘要: A system is upgraded by rolling upgrade with dynamic batch sizes in multiple iterations. The system includes multiple hosts that host multiple resources. The rolling upgrade calculates a number of hosts to upgrade and a number of resources to upgrade for each iteration. The calculation subtracts a reserved number of hosts from a capacity of the system to account for potential failover and potential resource scaling operations during the iteration. Based on the calculated number of hosts to upgrade, it is determined whether the system has a capacity for upgrade. If the capacity exists, the calculated number of hosts to upgrade and the calculated number of resources to upgrade are upgraded, while accepting resource scaling requests during the iteration.

    Runtime adjustment of configuration models for consistency preservation

    公开(公告)号:US11099860B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US15758622

    申请日:2015-09-15

    IPC分类号: G06F9/445 G06F8/656 G06F9/50

    摘要: A system performs runtime adjustment of a configuration model. The system receives, at runtime, a change request directed at one or more modified entities in the configuration model. Based on leadership information, one or more infringing entities are identified among the one or more modified entities. The leadership information indicates an impact that one entity has on another entity with respect to a given constraint. Based on the leadership information, a propagation scope is identified for a constraint violated by an infringing entity. The propagation scope includes the infringing entity and other entities that are potentially affected by the request. For resolving single constraint violation, a collection of paths are created in the propagation scope and a path is selected one at a time starting from the shortest path in the collection. For resolving multiple constraint violation, a bonded path is formed for a group of propagation scopes that overlap.

    Model based upgrade campaign generation

    公开(公告)号:US10466998B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US16071034

    申请日:2016-02-17

    摘要: An upgrade campaign is generated for entities of a system described by a source configuration. According to the upgrade campaign, the system is upgraded to a target configuration using available software. A change model describes changes from the source configuration to the target configuration. According to the change model, an upgrade campaign specification model is generated, which contains at least one upgrade campaign element for each change in the change model. A subset of upgrade campaign elements are matched based on a first set of rules, and the matched upgrade campaign elements are merged into an upgrade procedure in the upgrade campaign specification model. The upgrade procedures are ordered based on a second set of rules and dependencies among the entities of the system, where the dependencies are extracted from the source configuration, the target configuration and the description of available software.

    NETWORK SERVICE DESCRIPTOR SUPPORT FOR NETWORK SLICE ISOLATION REQUIREMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20230037914A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17791036

    申请日:2020-01-30

    摘要: A non-transitory computer readable media, methods, system and network function virtualization orchestrator can be used to instantiate a network service operating as at least a portion of a network slice. A network service descriptor describing the network service comprises at least one service deployment flavor; zero or more sharing allowed attribute defining if the network service or constituent instances of the network service is allowed to be shared with another network service instance, or with its constituent instances; and zero or more external placement rule attribute defining if the network service or constituent instances of the network service, is affine or anti-affine with current and future other network service or constituent instances of the current and future other network service.

    Dimensioning network services (NS)

    公开(公告)号:US11558248B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US17291950

    申请日:2019-11-06

    摘要: A method and network node are provided for dimensioning a network service (NS). The method comprises calculating, based on given capacity requirements of the NS, a required number of virtual network functions component (VNFC) instances of each of a plurality of virtual network function (VNF) in the NS; selecting a VNF deployment flavor (VnfDf) for each of the plurality of VNFs in the NS, based on the calculated required number of VNFC instances; generating a network service deployment flavor (NsDf) including the selected VnfDfs; and onboarding a network service descriptor (NSD), which includes the NsDf, for use for instantiating the dimensioned NS.

    Semantic weaving of configuration fragments into a consistent configuration

    公开(公告)号:US10768945B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US15769590

    申请日:2016-03-21

    摘要: A system configuration is generated by integrating source models. Transformations are generated according to a weaving model that specifies relations among metamodels of the source models and the system configuration. The transformations, when executed, transform the source models into the system configuration that includes target entities. From the transformations, one or more integration constraints are generated for each target entity to be created or modified by an operation of the transformations. The integration constraints describe semantics of the relations specified by the weaving model. System configuration constraints are formed to include the integration constraints in addition to constraints of each source model. The transformations are executed to transform the source models into the system configuration to generate the system configuration obeying the system configuration constraints.

    Combining User and Operator Intents in Network Slice Design

    公开(公告)号:US20230397039A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-07

    申请号:US18033275

    申请日:2020-11-24

    摘要: The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and computer readable media for combining user and operator intents in network slice design and deployment. The method comprises receiving user intents for requested functionalities. The method comprises generating a solution map in which a network slice design is created for each requested functionality, each network slice design being associated with a plurality of operator policies that satisfy the user intents. The method comprises comparing the operator policies associated with the network slice designs for the requested functionalities and combining the network slice designs with matching operator policies into one or more merged network slice design if the user and operator intents are satisfied and if no isolation requirement is violated. The method comprises deploying, in a network of the operator, one or more merged network slice based on the one or more merged network slice design.

    Derivation of network service descriptor from network service requirements

    公开(公告)号:US11290353B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16622077

    申请日:2018-03-08

    摘要: A Network Service Descriptor (NSD) is generated, from Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) existing in a VNF catalog, for instantiating a network service which satisfies given network service requirements. From the VNF catalog, a system selects VNFs that provide functionalities and architectural blocks required to fulfill the NS requirements. The system generates at least a VNF forwarding graph (VNFFG), which includes relations between the functionalities and the architectural blocks of the selected VNFs as well as traffic flows between the selected VNFs. The system then creates the NSD, which includes the VNFFG, for instantiating the network service.