Automated mocking of computer system deployments

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11467947-B2
Application number	US-202017074019-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2020
Priority date	Oct 19, 2020
Publication date	Oct 11, 2022
Grant date	Oct 11, 2022

Abstract

Systems and methods facilitating automated mocking of computer system deployments are described herein. A method as described herein can include associating, by a first system operatively coupled to a processor, respective properties of a first deployment of a second system on a first computing device with respective automation mapping functions; executing, by the first system, the automation mapping functions in an order defined by dependencies between respective ones of the automation mapping functions, resulting in a series of system modeling tasks and an order associated with the series of system modeling tasks; and performing, by the first system, the series of system modeling tasks in the order associated therewith, resulting in a second deployment of the second system being created on a second computing device that is distinct from the first computing device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a memory that stores executable components; and
a processor that executes the executable components stored in the memory, wherein the executable components comprise:
an automation mapping component that associates respective properties of a first deployment of a computing system on a first computing device with respective automation mapping functions;
a deployment modeling component that executes the automation mapping functions in an order defined by dependencies between the automation mapping functions, resulting in an ordered series of deployment modeling tasks;
a deployment transfer component that performs deployment modeling tasks of the ordered series of deployment modeling tasks, resulting in a second deployment of the computing system being created on a second computing device that is distinct from the first computing device; and
a graphing component that models the dependencies between the respective ones of the automation mapping functions and determines a first dependency, of the dependencies, between a first automation mapping function and a second automation mapping function, of the automation mapping functions, in response to a deployment modeling task, of the ordered series of deployment modeling tasks and resulting from the first automation mapping function, producing an output that is an input variable to the second automation mapping function.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the executable components further comprise:
a data collection component that obtains deployment data from the first computing device, wherein the respective properties of the first deployment are based on the deployment data.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the deployment data comprises data of at least one category selected from a group comprising physical configuration data for the first computing device, software configuration data for software utilized by the computing system on the first computing device, and environmental interaction data associated with the computing system on the first computing device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the executable components further comprise:
a scaling component that scales at least a portion of the respective properties of the first deployment according to a scaling factor.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the scaling factor is a first scaling factor, wherein the scaling component scales a first portion of the respective properties of the first deployment that is associated with a first one of the automation mapping functions according to the first scaling factor, and wherein the scaling component further scales a second portion of the respective properties of the first deployment that is associated with a second one of the automation mapping functions according to a second scaling factor.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the first computing device is associated with a first number of first computing nodes, wherein the second computing device is associated with a second number of second computing nodes, and wherein the scaling factor is determined based on a ratio of the first number to the second number.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the output of the deployment modeling task is a bound variable input for the second automation mapping function.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the deployment modeling component executes the second automation mapping function based on the bound variable input and one or more deployment variable inputs given by the respective properties of the first deployment.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second computing device is a computing device selected from a group comprising a physical computing device and a virtualized computing device.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the executable components further comprise:
a testing component that applies a simulated client load to the second deployment of the computing system on the second computing device.

11. A method, comprising:
associating, by a first system operatively coupled to a processor, respective properties of a first deployment of a second system on a first computing device with respective automation mapping functions;
executing, by the first system, the automation mapping functions in an order defined by dependencies between respective ones of the automation mapping functions, resulting in a series of system modeling tasks and the order associated with the series of system modeling tasks
performing, by the first system, the series of system modeling tasks in the order associated therewith, resulting in a second deployment of the second system being created on a second computing device that is distinct from the first computing device; and
determining, by the first system, a dependency, of the dependencies, between a first automation mapping function and a second automation mapping function, of the automation mapping functions, in response to a first system modeling task, of the series of system modeling tasks and resulting from the first automation mapping function, producing an output that is an input variable to the second automation mapping function.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
collecting, by the first system, deployment data from the first computing device; and
determining, by the first system, the respective properties of the first deployment based on the deployment data.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
scaling, by the first system, at least a portion of the respective properties of the first deployment according to a scaling factor.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the scaling factor is a first scaling factor, and wherein the scaling comprises:
scaling a first subset of the respective properties of the first deployment that is associated with a first one of the automation mapping functions according to the first scaling factor; and
scaling a second subset of the respective properties of the first deployment that is associated with a second one of the automation mapping functions according to a second scaling factor.

15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
wherein the determining of the dependency results in the output of the first system modeling task being a bound variable input for the second automation mapping function.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the executing comprises executing the second automation mapping function based on the bound variable input and one or more deployment variable inputs given by the respective properties of the first deployment.

17. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
associating respective properties of a first deployment of a data storage system as implemented on a first computing site to respective automation mapping functions according to deployment data associated with the first deployment;
executing the automation mapping functions in an order defined by dependencies between respective ones of the automation mapping functions, resulting in an ordered series of deployment transfer tasks corresponding to the respective ones of the automation mapping functions
executing the ordered series of deployment transfer tasks, resulting in a second deployment of the data storage system being created on a second computing site that is distinct from the first computing site;
determining that a first deployment transfer task, of the ordered series of deployment transfer tasks and resulting from a first one of the automation mapping functions, p

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Bryan Matthew
• Kumar Shiv Shankar
• Chandra Anurag
• Patil Shubham

Classifications

• G06F8/60

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F11/3414

  Workload generation, e.g. scripts, playback · CPC title

• G06F11/3688

  for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites · CPC title

• G06F11/3692

  for test results analysis · CPC title

• G06F11/3664 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic