Methods and apparatus for determining block storage status

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10972539-B2
Application number	US-201916264204-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2019
Priority date	Jan 31, 2019
Publication date	Apr 6, 2021
Grant date	Apr 6, 2021

Abstract

This application relates to apparatus and methods for communication with and management of datacenters, such as cloud datacenters employing multiple servers. A control server may identify a plurality of datacenters from which to request block storage status. The control server may identify a user request to execute multiple requests to obtain the block storage status from the plurality of datacenters. Based on the user request, the control server may generate the plurality of requests. The control server may transmit the plurality of requests to the plurality of datacenters. The control server may determine if a response to the requests is received. The response may include block storage status data identifying whether a service managing storage blocks for the datacenter is operational. The control server may also provide the block storage status for display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a computing device configured to:
identify a plurality of datacenters for which to request block storage status data;
receive a user request to execute a plurality of requests for block storage status data of at least one of the plurality of datacenters;
generate, in response to the user request, the plurality of requests to the at least one of the plurality of datacenters, wherein each of the plurality of requests is a request to a processing task responsible for managing block storage and executing on a corresponding datacenter of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters and for block storage status of each corresponding datacenter;
transmit the plurality of requests to the at least one of the plurality of datacenters;
receive at least one response to the transmitted plurality of requests comprising block storage data;
determine a status of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters based on the block storage data; and
provide for display an indication of the status of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters.

2. The system of claim 1 ,
wherein the block storage data identifies whether a service managing storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is operational.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computing device is configured to determine that the block storage data indicates the service managing the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is not operational.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computing device is configured to determine that the block storage data indicates the service managing the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is operational.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computing device is configured to provide for display the block storage data received in the at least one response.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computing device is configured to determine a volume provisioning of the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter based on the received at least one response.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is configured to:
generate a first request of the plurality of requests for a first datacenter of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters; and
generate a second request of the plurality of requests for a second datacenter of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is configured to:
determine whether a response to each request of the plurality of requests has been received; and
provide an indication for display of the determination of whether the response to each of the plurality of requests has been received.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the computing device is configured to determine that the response to each request of the plurality of requests has not been received after a period of time has expired.

10. A method comprising:
identifying a plurality of datacenters for which to request block storage status data;
receiving a user request to execute a plurality of requests for block storage status data of at least one of the plurality of datacenters;
generating, in response to the user request, the plurality of requests to the at least one of the plurality of datacenters, wherein each of the plurality of requests is a request to a processing task responsible for managing block storage and executing on a corresponding datacenter of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters and for block storage status of each corresponding datacenter;
transmitting the plurality of requests to the plurality of datacenters to the at least one of the plurality of datacenters;
receiving at least one response to the transmitted plurality of requests comprising block storage data;
determining a status of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters based on the block storage data; and
providing for display an indication of the status of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:
wherein the block storage data identifies whether a service managing storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is operational.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:
determining that the block storage data indicates the service managing the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is not operational.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising:
determining that the block storage data indicates the service managing the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is operational.

14. The method of claim 10 further comprising:
determining a volume provisioning of the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter based on the received at least one response.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising:
determining whether a response to each request of the plurality of requests has been received; and
providing an indication for display of the determination of whether the response to each of the plurality of requests has been received.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause a device to perform operations comprising:
identifying a plurality of datacenters for which to request block storage status data;
receiving a user request to execute a plurality of requests for block storage status data of at least one of the plurality of datacenters;
generating, in response to the user request, the plurality of requests to the at least one of the plurality of datacenters, wherein each of the plurality of requests is a request to a processing task responsible for managing block storage and executing on a corresponding datacenter of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters and for block storage status of each corresponding datacenter;
transmitting the plurality of requests to the at least one of the plurality of datacenters;
receiving at least one response to the transmitted plurality of requests comprising block storage data;
determining a status of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters based on the block storage data; and
providing for display an indication of the status of the at least one of the plurality of datacenters.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16
wherein the block storage data identifies whether a service managing storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is operational.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 further comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, further cause the device to perform operations comprising:
determining that the block storage data indicates the service managing the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is not operational.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 further comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, further cause the device to perform operations comprising:
determining that the block storage data indicates the service managing the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter is operational.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 further comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, further cause the device to perform operations comprising:
determining a volume provisioning of the storage blocks for the corresponding datacenter based on the received at least one response.

Assignees

• Walmart Apollo Llc

Inventors

• Bothello Gerald
• Roy Surajit
• Bhujanga Giridhar

Classifications

• H04L43/20

  the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV · CPC title

• H04L67/75

  Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display · CPC title

• H04L67/51

  Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services · CPC title

• H04L41/20

  Network management software packages · CPC title

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title