Determining availability of networking resources prior to migration of a server or domain

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9712455-B1
Application number	US-201514598368-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 16, 2015
Priority date	Nov 13, 2014
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

Presented herein are techniques for resolving VxAN (VSANs and VLANs) networking connectivity, prior to server or domain migration. When UCS domains receive a workload or service profile from a UCS Central Controller, required VLANs/VSANs are checked for deployment for that UCS domain in Fabric Interconnects, and once VLANs/VSANs are successfully confirmed, the workload is deployed into one of the compute servers in that domain.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
at a controller, receiving a request to migrate a server or a domain from a first location associated with a first node to a second location associated with a second node, the first node and the second node included in a tree hierarchy of multiple nodes corresponding to networking domain groups;
retrieving one or more service profiles associated with the server or the domain, each service profile specifying a specific set of networking resources for the server or the domain;
determining, prior to migration of the server or the domain to the second location, whether the networking resources associated with the service profile of the server or the domain are available at the second node;
in response to determining that the networking resources are not available at the second node, determining whether a third node, adjacent to the first node in a branch of the tree hierarchy, is present;
evaluating whether the networking resources are available at the third node;
in response to determining that the networking resources are available at the third node, performing migration of the server or the domain; and
updating, upon completion of migration of the server or the domain, a domain group hierarchy stored in the controller to reflect migration of the server or the domain.

2. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
in response to determining that the networking resources are available at the second node, performing the migration of the server or the domain to the second location; and
updating, upon completion of migration of the server or the domain to the second location, a domain group hierarchy stored in the controller to reflect the server or the domain migration.

3. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
generating a message indicating that the migration has failed, when the third node is not present.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the networking resources are specified in the storage profile and comprise specific compute resources associated with particular virtual local area networks and virtual storage area networks.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service profile comprises a server definition.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service profile comprises identity information.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service profile comprises one or more of a firmware revision specification or a connectivity definition.

8. An apparatus comprising:
a network interface unit configured to receive a request to migrate a server or a domain from a first location associated with a first node to a second location associated with a second node, the first node and the second node included in a tree hierarchy of multiple nodes corresponding to networking domain groups;
a processor coupled to the network interface unit and configured to:
retrieve one or more service profiles associated with the server or the domain, each service profile specifying a specific set of networking resources for the server or the domain;
determine, prior to migration of the server or the domain to the second location, whether the networking resources associated with the service profile of the server or the domain are available at the second node; and
determine, in response to determining that the networking resources are not available at the second node, whether a third node, adjacent to the first node in a branch of the tree hierarchy, is present;
evaluate whether the networking resources are available at the third node;
perform migration of the server or the domain, in response to determining that the networking resources are available at the third node; and
update, upon completion of migration of the server or the domain, a domain group hierarchy stored in the controller to reflect migration of the server or the domain.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
perform the migration of the server or the domain to the second location, in response to determining that the networking resources are available at the second node; and
update, upon completion of migration of the server or the domain to the second location, a domain group hierarchy stored in the controller to reflect the server or the domain migration.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
generate a message indicating that the migration has failed, when the third node is not present.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the networking resources are specified in the storage profile and comprise specific compute resources associated with particular virtual local area networks and virtual storage area networks.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the service profile comprises a server definition.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the service profile comprises identity information.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the service profile comprises one or more of a firmware revision specification or a connectivity definition.

15. A non-transitory tangible computer readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor of a network device configured to perform networking resource resolution, cause the processor to:
receive, via a network interface unit, a request to migrate a server or a domain from a first location associated with a first node to a second location associated with a second node, the first node and the second node included in a tree hierarchy of multiple nodes corresponding to networking domain groups;
retrieve one or more service profiles associated with the server or the domain, each service profile specifying a specific set of networking resources for the server or the domain;
determine, prior to migration of the server or the domain to the second location, whether the networking resources associated with the service profile of the server or the domain are available at the second node; and
determine, in response to determining that the networking resources are not available at the second node, whether a third node, adjacent to the first node in a branch of the tree hierarchy, is present;
evaluate whether the networking resources are available at the third node;
perform migration of the server or the domain, in response to determining that the networking resources are available at the third node; and
update, upon completion of migration of the server or the domain, a domain group hierarchy stored in the controller to reflect migration of the server or the domain.

16. The computer readable storage media of claim 15 , further comprising instructions to cause the processor to:
perform the migration of the server or the domain to the second location, in response to determining that the networking resources are available at the second node; and
update, upon completion of migration of the server or the domain to the second location, a domain group hierarchy stored in the controller to reflect the server or the domain migration.

17. The computer readable storage media of claim 15 , further comprising instructions to cause the processor to:
generate a message indicating that the migration has failed, when the third node is not present.

18. The computer readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the networking resources are specified in the storage profile and comprise specific compute resources associated with particular virtual local area networks and virtual storage area networks.

19. The computer readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the service profile comprises one or more of a server d

Assignees

• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Mittal Shailesh
• Krishnamurthy Raghu
• Frenkel Nir
• Weinstein Jay

Classifications

• G06F2009/4557

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

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F9/45558

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• H04L47/762 Primary

  triggered by the network · 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