Data center time to value

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12001876-B2
Application number	US-202117508591-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2021
Priority date	Oct 22, 2021
Publication date	Jun 4, 2024
Grant date	Jun 4, 2024

Abstract

A system can receive an order to install a first data center on customer premises, wherein the first data center comprises a first instance of a virtualized overlay network and a first instance of virtualized volume identifiers. The system can, in response to determining that installing the first data center is threshold likely to take at least a defined amount of time to install, instantiate a second data center for the customer account at a colocation site, wherein the second data center comprises a second instance of the virtualized overlay network a second instance of the virtualized volume identifiers. The system can operate customer workloads using the second data center. The system can, after instantiating the second data center, and in response to determining that the first data center is operational, switch the operating of the customer workloads from the second data center to the first data center.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
receiving an order from a customer account to install and manage a first data center on customer premises, wherein the first data center comprises a first instance of a virtualized overlay network that virtualizes physical network resources and a first instance of a group of virtualized volume identifiers that virtualize physical storage volumes;
in response to receiving the order, and in response to determining that installing the first data center is threshold likely to take at least a defined amount of time to install, instantiating a second data center for the customer account at a colocation site, wherein the second data center comprises a second instance of the virtualized overlay network a second instance of the group of virtualized volume identifiers;
operating customer workloads using the second data center, wherein the customer workloads invoke the second instance of the virtualized overlay network and the second instance of the group of virtualized volume identifiers; and
after instantiating the second data center, and in response to determining that the first data center is operational, switching the operating of the customer workloads from the second data center to the first data center, wherein the customer workloads invoke the first instance of the virtualized overlay network and the first instance of the group of virtualized volume identifiers.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to determining a type of storage associated with the first data center, using the type of storage with the second data center.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to determining a first type of storage associated with the first data center, using a second type of storage with the second data center, wherein the second type of storage exceeds a performance metric of the first type of storage.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to determining that the first data center is configured to store data, mirroring storage of the second data center to storage of the first data center.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the operations further comprise:
mirroring the storage of the second data center to storage of the first data center in response to determining that a latency of data transfer between the first data center and the second data center is below a defined threshold value.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to determining that the first data center is operational, triggering an availability zone failover from the second data center to the first data center.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to determining that the first data center is operational, iteratively switching the operating of the customer workloads from the second data center to the first data center.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to determining that the first data center is operational, disconnecting the second data center from a public communications network before performing the switching the operating of the customer workloads from the second data center to the first data center.

9. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a system comprising a processor, order data representative of an order from a customer account to install and manage a first data center at a first physical location, wherein the first data center comprises a first instance of a virtualized overlay network that abstracts physical network resources and a first instance of a group of virtualized volume identifiers that abstract physical storage volumes;
in response to receiving the order data, and in response to determining that there will be at least a threshold delay associated with installing the first data center, instantiating, by the system, a second data center for the customer account at second physical location, wherein the second data center comprises a second instance of the virtualized overlay network a second instance of the group of virtualized volume identifiers;
operating, by the system, customer workloads using the second data center, wherein the customer workloads invoke the second instance of the virtualized overlay network and the second instance of the group of virtualized volume identifiers; and
after instantiating the second data center, and in response to determining that the first data center is operational, switching, by the system, the operating of the customer workloads from the second data center to the first data center, wherein the customer workloads invoke the first instance of the virtualized overlay network and the first instance of the group of virtualized volume identifiers.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the system comprises a cloud management platform that manages the first data center and the second data center, and that controls the switching of the operating of the customer workloads from the second data center to the first data center.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining, by the system, a first amount of resources to install for the first data center based on determining a second amount of resources associated with operating the customer workloads using the second data center.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the order identifies a first amount of computing resources, and further comprises:
in response to determining, by the system, that the customer workloads being processed using the second data center consume a second amount of computing resources, and in response to determining that the first amount of computing resources differs from the second amount of computing resources by at least a specified amount, modifying an amount of computing resources associated with the order.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the second amount of computing resources is greater than the first amount of computing resources, and wherein modifying the amount of computing resources associated with the order comprises increasing the amount of computing resources associated with the order.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the second amount of computing resources is less than the first amount of computing resources, and wherein modifying the amount of computing resources associated with the order comprises decreasing the amount of computing resources associated with the order.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:
in response to determining to instantiate a first data center at a first physical location for a customer account, wherein the first data center comprises a first overlay network that presents an overlay and a first storage virtualization that presents virtual storage, instantiating a second data center for the customer account at second physical location, wherein the second data center comprises a second overlay network that presents the overlay and a second storage virtualization that presents the virtual storage;
operating customer workloads on the second data center, wherein the customer workloads invoke the second overlay network and the second storage virtualization; and
after instantiating the second data center, and in response to determining that the first data center is operational, switching the operatin

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Shemer Jehuda
• Lotosh Valerie
• Sharvit Erez

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F9/5022

  Mechanisms to release resources · 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

• G06F2009/4557

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

• G06F2009/45579

  I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage · CPC title