Cloud launch wizard

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11388071-B2
Application number	US-202017130896-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2020
Priority date	Oct 26, 2018
Publication date	Jul 12, 2022
Grant date	Jul 12, 2022

Abstract

One example method includes receiving an input that indicates selection of a cloud storage provider, receiving one or more product selection inputs, each of the product selection inputs indicating selection of a respective data protection product, receiving an input indicating an instance size, assembling the inputs together to define a data protection configuration, and automatically generating a script which, when executed by one or more hardware processors, deploys the data protection configuration in a cloud storage environment of the selected cloud storage provider.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a service provider site, cloud provider information from a client;
receiving by the service provider site, from the client, one or more product selection inputs, each of the one or more product selection inputs indicating selection, by a user, of a respective data protection product from a list of user-selectable data protection products presented to the user by the service provider site;
checking, by the service provider site, to determine if any conflicts or incompatibilities exist among the data protection products selected by the user and, when such a conflict or incompatibility is found, updating a user menu so as to prevent user selection of conflicting or incompatible data protection products;
receiving, at the service provider site, instance information from the client;
assembling, at the service provider site, the cloud provider information, the data protection product information, and the instance information, into a data protection configuration; and
generating, at a service provider site, a script which is executable to implement the assembled data protection configuration.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the received cloud provider information comprises information that identifies a cloud provider that has been selected by the user at the client.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the received instance information comprises information indicating an amount of storage needed by the user.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the generated script to the client.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the generated script is deployable in a cloud environment by the client.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising enabling the client to download the generated script.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the generated script, when deployed and executed, causes automatic deployment and provisioning of the assembled data protection configuration.

8. A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions which are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a service provider site, cloud provider information from a client;
receiving by the service provider site, from the client, one or more product selection inputs, each of the one or more product selection inputs indicating selection, by a user, of a respective data protection product from a list of user-selectable data protection products presented to the user by the service provider site;
checking, by the service provider site, to determine if any conflicts or incompatibilities exist among the data protection products selected by the user and, when such a conflict or incompatibility is found, updating a user menu so as to prevent user selection of conflicting or incompatible data protection products;
receiving, at the service provider site, instance information from the client;
assembling, at the service provider site, the cloud provider information, the data protection product information, and the instance information, into a data protection configuration; and
generating, at a service provider site, a script which is executable to implement the assembled data protection configuration.

9. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 8 , wherein the received cloud provider information comprises information that identifies a cloud provider that has been selected by the user at the client.

10. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 8 , wherein the received instance information comprises information indicating an amount of storage needed by the user.

11. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise transmitting the generated script to the client.

12. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 8 , wherein the generated script is deployable in a cloud environment by the client.

13. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 8 , further comprising enabling the client to download the generated script.

14. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 8 , wherein the generated script, when deployed and executed, causes automatic deployment and provisioning of the assembled data protection configuration.

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Brenner Adam E
• Malamut Mark D

Classifications

• G06F8/60

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F9/5077

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title

• H04L41/5054 Primary

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• G06F8/30

  Creation or generation of source code · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title