公开(公告)号：GB2519114A

公开(公告)日：2015-04-15

申请号：GB201317901

申请日：2013-10-10

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SANTIS MARCO DE ,  CIANO GIUSEPPE ,  SIMEONI MAURIZIO

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/48

Abstract: A service, e.g. web applications, can have user interfaces (web tier), processing logic (application tier), and data storing (back-end tier) implemented by intra-connected virtual machines (VMs). A method (A1-A14) is provided for migrating such a service from a source (e.g. server 315) as a unit. It comprises discovering (A1) characteristic information indicating the source VMs and their intra-connections and copying (A6) the source VMs into corresponding target VMs on target server 336 according to the characteristic information. Reconfiguration information of at least one selected target VM which indicates that the source identity has been translated to a target identity is then saved (A7-A8). The source/target identity is the IP address and hostname for a network domain of the source/target server 315/336. Reconfiguration and characteristic information are used to redirect each communication addressed to source identities to the corresponding selected target VMs, the communication being from intra-connected target VMs.

公开(公告)号：GB2507753A

公开(公告)日：2014-05-14

申请号：GB201220086

申请日：2012-11-07

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SIMEONI MAURIZIO ,  CIANO GIUSEPPE ,  SANTIS MARCO DE

IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract: A method for deploying a virtual appliance onto a data processing system solution comprises instantiating the virtual appliance with a basis configuration (450), determines a value of a set of environmental features associated with the virtual processing environment and downloading (475) a set of local software programs (470) onto the virtual appliance according to the values of the features. The downloaded programs may then be installed onto the virtual appliance. The basic configuration may include a deployment agent which undertakes the determining and downloading step. The determining step may submitting a query to a deployment server (405) and receiving a response. The environmental feature may include a line to an external program.

公开(公告)号：GB2508160A

公开(公告)日：2014-05-28

申请号：GB201220936

申请日：2012-11-21

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CIANO GIUSEPPE ,  PICHETTI LUIGI ,  SIMEONI MAURIZIO ,  MARINELLI CLAUDIO

IPC: G06F9/445 ,  G06F15/17

Abstract: A solution is proposed to avoid conflicts when deploying software images onto a computing system. A computing machine is installed onto a computing system from a corresponding software image, the computing machine having an old access identifier and being connected to an old access identifier of at least one further computing machine in the software image. The computing machine being configured to have a new access identifier associated to the old access identifier. The system configured to retrieve (448-466) the new access identifier of each further computing machine from an association between the old access identifier and the new access identifier, and redirecting (469-478) each outbound communication from the computing machine to the old access identifier of each further computing machine to the new access identifier. Further claims are directed to the association of connection parameters to the old and new access identifiers.