Patent · US Expired

Creation of highly available pseudo-clone standby servers for rapid failover provisioning

US7953703B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 17, 2005
Grant dateMay 31, 2011
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Expiry dateFeb 8, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2201/85
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Near clones for a set of targeted computing systems are provided by evaluating different configurations of the targeted computing systems including lists of installed hardware components and installed software components; determining a subset of components in common among the different configurations; determining an initial pseudo-clone configuration including the subset of components and excluding components which are not in common among the different target hardware configurations; for each of the targeted computing systems, producing a finish-out workflow of installation steps and components to be installed into an incompletely configured computer system according to the pseudo-clone configuration to produce an operational clone system; and outputting the pseudo-clone configuration and the workflow to a provisioning management system for subsequent realization of a pseudo-clone backup computing system and further subsequent realization of one or more operational clone systems.

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