System and method for supplying on-premise hyper-converged systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11321069-B2
Application number	US-201916655166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2019
Priority date	Oct 16, 2019
Publication date	May 3, 2022
Grant date	May 3, 2022

Abstract

A system and method for supplying on-premise hyper-converged systems uses a cloud service to receive orders for the on-premise hyper-converged systems from customers and to request a system integrator to procure hardware components of the on-premise hyper-converged systems and to assemble hardware components to produce assembled systems. Software components are remotely installed and configured in the assembled systems from the cloud service using bring-up appliances in virtual private clouds created for the on-premise hyper-converged systems to deploy software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in the on-premise hyper-converged systems. The resulting on-premise hyper-converged systems with the deployed SDDCs can then used by the customers.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for supplying on-premise hyper-converged systems, the method comprising:
receiving orders for the on-premise hyper-converged systems from customers at a cloud service;
in response to the orders, requesting a system integrator to procure hardware components of the on-premise hyper-converged systems, including physical gateway appliances, to assemble the hardware components to produce assembled systems and to connect the assembled systems to a software-defined wide area network (SD- WAN) using the physical gateway appliances to initiate a bring-up process for each of the assembled systems, wherein the SD-WAN is connected to the cloud service;
in response to each bring-up process initiation, creating a virtual private cloud for each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems being produced in a public cloud computing environment;
deploying a bring-up appliance in each of the virtual private clouds, wherein the bring-up appliance in each of the virtual private clouds manages installation and configuration of software-defined data center (SDDC)-related software components for an associated assembled system to produce each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems;
remotely installing and configuring the SDDC-related software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances in the virtual private clouds to deploy SDDCs in the assembled systems via the SD-WAN to produce the on-premise hyper-converged systems; and
notifying the system integrator that each bring-up process is complete to signal the system integrator to ship the on-premise hyper-converged systems to the customers so that the customers can connect the on-premise hyper-converged systems to the SD-WAN using the physical gateway appliances of the on-premise hyper-converged systems and use the SDDCs deployed in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising deploying reverse proxies in each of the virtual private clouds to communicate with some of the SDDC-related software components installed in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving logs and metrics from the on-premise hyper-converged systems at the cloud service and remotely fixing any software or hardware issues of the on-premise hyper-converged systems in response to the received logs and metrics.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising remotely installing updates for some of the SDDC-related software components installed in the on- premise hyper-converged systems from the cloud service via the SD-WAN.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein remotely installing and configuring the SDRC-related software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances includes installing a logical network manager in each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems to create logical overlay networks in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein remotely installing and configuring the SDDC-related software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances includes installing a virtualization manager in each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems to manage deployment of virtual computing instances in the respective SDDCs in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein remotely installing and configuring the SDDC-related software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances includes using software bundles in database accessible by the cloud service, wherein the software bundles in the database are the latest versions of the SDDC- related software components to be installed in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising deploying a jumpbox appliance in one of the virtual private clouds for a customer to access the on-premise hyper-converged system associated with that virtual private cloud.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions for method for supplying on-premise hyper-converged systems, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer causes the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
receiving orders for the on-premise hyper-converged systems from customers at a cloud service;
in response to the orders, requesting a system integrator to procure hardware components of the on-premise hyper-converged systems, including physical gateway appliances, to assemble the hardware components to produce assembled systems and to connect the assembled systems to a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) using the physical gateway appliances to initiate a bring-up process for each of the assembled systems, wherein the SD-WAN is connected to the cloud service;
in response to each bring-up process initiation, creating a virtual private cloud for each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems being produced in a public cloud computing environment;
deploying a bring-up appliance in each of the virtual private clouds, wherein the bring-up appliance in each of the virtual private clouds manages installation and configuration of software-defined data center (SDDC)-related software components for an associated assembled system to produce each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems;
remotely installing and configuring software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances in the virtual private clouds to deploy SDDCs in the assembled systems via the SD-WAN to produce the on-premise hyper-converged systems; and
notifying the system integrator that each bring-up process is complete to signal the system integrator to ship the on-premise hyper-converged systems to the customers so that the customers can connect the on-premise hyper-converged systems to the SD-WAN using the physical gateway appliances of the on--premise hyper--converged systems and use the SDDCs deployed in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the steps further comprise deploying reverse proxies in each of the virtual private clouds to communicate with some of the SDRC-related software components installed in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the steps further comprise receiving logs and metrics from the on-premise hyper-converged systems at the cloud service and remotely fixing any software or hardware issues of the on-premise hyper-converged systems in response to the received logs and metrics.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the steps further comprise remotely installing updates for some of the SDDC-related software components installed in the on-premise hyper-converged systems from the cloud service via the SD-WAN.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein remotely installing and configuring the SDDC-related software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances includes installing a logical network manager in each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems to create logical overlay networks in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein remotely installing and configuring the SDDC-related software components in the assembled systems using the bring-up appliances includes installing a virtualization manager in each of the on-premise hyper-converged systems to manage deployment of virtual computing instances in the respective SDDCs in the on-premise hyper-converged systems.

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Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Hall Michael L
• Ravuri Sridevi
• Agarwalla Rajesh
• Xu Emily Hong
• Rajan Venkat Deep
• Chin Andrew T
• Mahmood Hasan
• Munot Sushil Shripal
• Kulkarni Yateendra

Classifications

• G06F2009/4557

  Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing · CPC title

• G06F8/65 Primary

  Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• H04L63/0272 Primary

  Virtual private networks · CPC title

• H04L63/0281

  Proxies · CPC title