Cloud management using a component health model

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8996932-B2
Application number	US-201313737469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2013
Priority date	Jan 9, 2013
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments are directed to establishing a model for testing cloud components and to preventing cascading failures in cloud components. In one scenario, a computer system models identified cloud components (including cloud hardware components and/or cloud software components) as health entities. Each health entity is configured to provide state information about the cloud component. The computer system establishes declarative safety conditions which declaratively describe cloud computing conditions that are to be maintained at the identified cloud components. The computer system then tests against the declarative safety conditions to determine which cloud components are or are becoming problematic. Upon determining that an error has occurred, the computer system notifies users of the error and the component at which the error occurred. Guarded interfaces are established to ensure that actions taken to fix the error do not cause further failures.

First claim

We claim:

1. A computer system comprising the following:
one or more processors;
system memory;
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for establishing a model for testing cloud components, the method comprising the following:
an act of modeling one or more identified cloud components including at least one of cloud har…

Assignees

• Microsoft Corp
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Singh Abhishek
• Raghavan Srikanth
• Mani Ajay
• Syed Saad

Classifications

• G06F11/2294 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic