System and method of performing high availability configuration and validation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9912535-B2
Application number	US-201414572999-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2014
Priority date	Dec 17, 2014
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

Abstract

Certain aspects direct to system for performing high availability (HA) configuration and validation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The system includes a plurality of computing devices functioning as computing nodes, and a virtual desktop controller. Each computing device includes at least one network interface card (NIC), and each computing node includes at least one computing device. The virtual desktop controller includes a processor, a memory, and a storage device storing computer executable code. The code, when executed at the processor, is configured to: discover the computing devices; configure the NICs of the computing devices; configure hardware and software components of the computing devices; configure at least one cluster of the system, where each cluster includes at least one computing node; execute a hypervisor, and execute a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) on the executed hypervisor; and configure additional features related to the VMs of the system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for performing high availability (HA) configuration and validation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), comprising:
a plurality of computing devices, each of the computing devices comprises at least one network interface card (NIC); and
a virtual desktop controller communicatively connected to the computing devices via a network and directly connected to a virtual machine server storing a hypervisor and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), wherein the virtual machine server and the virtual desktop controller are two different and separate components and each comprise at least two NICs, wherein the virtual desktop controller comprises a processor, a memory, and a storage device storing computer executable code, wherein the code, when executed at the processor, is configured to:
discover, by a discovery engine, the computing devices based on discovery information stored in a data store, thus yielding discovered computer devices;
configure, by a configuration module, the NICs of the discovered computing devices;
configure, by the configuration module, hardware and software components of the discovered computing devices;
configure, by the configuration module, at least one cluster of the system, wherein each of the at least one cluster comprises at least one of the discovered computing devices;
execute, by a control module, the hypervisor and execute a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) on the executed hypervisor;
configure, by the configuration module, additional features related to the VMs of the system;
monitor, by a monitoring module, the hardware and software components of the discovered computing devices and generate corresponding monitoring information of the discovered computing devices, wherein the corresponding monitoring information comprises change of the hardware and software components; and
display, by a user interface (UI) module, the corresponding monitoring information on a display device, thus performing high availability (HA) configuration and validation of the VDI;

wherein for each of the discovered computing devices, the discovery information comprises a protocol, a port number and an internet protocol (IP) address; and
wherein the configuration module is configured to configure the NICs of the discovered computing devices by:
for each of the discovered computing devices comprising two or more of the NICs, performing NIC teaming to combine the two or more of the NICs to function as a single NIC.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the discovered computing devices is the virtual machine server storing the hypervisor and the plurality of VMs, wherein the virtual desktop controller is connected to the virtual machine server through an interface.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein
the data store stores information of the system, and wherein the information of the system comprises discovery information and cluster configuration information;
the discovery engine is configured to discover the computing devices based on the discovery information;
the configuration module is configured to configure the NICs and the hardware and software components of the discovered computing devices by the discovery engine, to configure the at least one cluster of the system based on the cluster configuration information, and to configure the additional features related to the VMs of the system;
the VM control module is configured to control the virtual machine server to execute the hypervisor and to execute the VMs on the executed hypervisor; and
the SVM monitor engine is configured to monitor the hardware and software components of the discovered computing devices and generate corresponding monitoring information, and to register the discovery information into the data store based on the corresponding monitoring information.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the configuration module is configured to configure each of the at least one cluster of the system by:
checking the data store for the cluster configuration information;
when the cluster configuration information is stored in the data store, determining that a cluster role is installed, and collecting a domain credential from the cluster configuration information stored in the data store, wherein the domain credential comprises an internet protocol (IP) address for the cluster;
receiving a cluster name for the cluster;
selecting the at least one of the discovered computing devices for the cluster; and
validating the cluster.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the configuration module is further configured to configure each of the at least one cluster of the system by:
when the cluster configuration information is not stored in the database, determining that the cluster role is not installed, and installing the cluster role to generate the cluster configuration information in the data store.

6. The system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the VM control module is configured to control the virtual machine server to execute the VMs on the executed hypervisor by:
launching a random access memory (RAM) disk on a volatile memory array using a RAM disk driver;
deploying the VMs to the RAM disk; and
executing the VMs from the RAM disk.

7. The system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the SVM monitor engine is further configured to monitor the RAM disk.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the discovered computing devices is a thin client computing device.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the additional features related to the VMs of the system comprise HA failover features.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the additional features related to the VMs of the system comprise alert features.

11. A method of performing high availability (HA) configuration and validation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), comprising:
discovering, by a discovery engine of a snap VDI manager (SVM) executed at a processor of a virtual desktop controller, a plurality of computing devices of a VDI system based on discovery information stored in a data store, thus yielding discovered computer devices, wherein the virtual desktop controller is communicatively connected to the discovered computing devices via a network and is directly connected to a virtual machine server storing a hypervisor and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), wherein the virtual machine server and the virtual desktop controller are two different and separate components and each comprise at least two NICs, and wherein each of the discovered computing devices comprises at least one network interface card (NIC);
configuring, by a configuration module of the executed SVM, the NICs of the discovered computing devices;
configuring, by the configuration module of the executed SVM, hardware and software components of the discovered computing devices;
configuring, by the configuration module of the executed SVM, at least one cluster of the VDI system, wherein each of the at least one cluster comprises at least one of the discovered computing devices;
executing, by a control module of the executed SVM, the hypervisor and executing a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) on the executed hypervisor;
configuring, by the configuration module of the executed SVM, additional features related to the VMs of the VDI system;
monitoring, by a monitoring module, the hardware and software components of the discovered computing devices and generating corresponding monitoring information of the discovered computing devices, wherein the corresponding monitoring information comprises change of the hardware and software components; and
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Assignees

• American Megatrends Inc

Inventors

• Ayanam Varadachari Sudan
• Kondalsamy Venkatesaperumal
• Yoon David
• Mathews Santhosh Samuel

Classifications

• G06F9/4445

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• H04L41/0806 Primary

  for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play · CPC title

• G06F9/45558

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• H04L41/12

  Discovery or management of network topologies · CPC title