International Business Machines Corporation

Xue Xiang Cui

Yu Zhang

Bin Gu

WuMi Zhong

Tan Jiang

Gong Zhang

Yong Yao

Yang Che

Jian Qiu Wang

Xin Li

Xin Peng Liu

Liang Wang

Hong Yu Chen

Xi Ning Wang

Xia Tian Zhang

Xuan Zhang

Zhao Liu

Ke Zhu

Zhen Xin Jiao

A deployment specification for implementing a requested cloud service is received by a server. A resource pool is queried by the server for available resources required by the deployment specifications. The resource pool includes a plurality of pre-configured resources for implementing one or more cloud services. A first resource required by the deployment specification is determined to be available within the resource pool. First resource metadata associated with the first resource is requested from a database. The resource metadata includes a resource identifier and a resource type of the first resource. The resource metadata associated with the first resource is received from the database. The first resource is deployed from the resource pool according to the deployment specification to implement the requested cloud service.

Accelerating and maintaining large-scale cloud deployment

In a field of software configuration, a technology of migrating and configuring software rapidly by determining a correspondence between device specific information and a specific configuration file location recording such information. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for software fast configuration is provided comprising: obtaining and analyzing a software configuration program to identify a method related to the device specific information in the software configuration program; adding an identification to the device specific information obtained by the method related to the specific device information; and determining a correspondence between the device specific information and its record location in a software configuration file based on the added identification. According to the technical solution of the present invention, the correspondence between the record location in the configuration file and the device specific information may be automatically recorded and/or may be used for rapid configuration of software.

Rapid configuration of software

In one embodiment, a method includes a processor deploying one or more scripts in a first deployment instance, where the first deployment instance is deployed from a first shared computing environment. The processor determines a difference between the first deployment instance at deployment and the first deployment instance at runtime and based on this determination, selects a first script from the one or more scripts. The processor captures a representation of the first deployment instance and selects a second script, where second script sets up relationships between resources of the first deployment instance in a subsequently deployed deployment instance. The processor utilizes the representation, the first script, and the second script to deploy a second deployment instance from a second shared computing environment.

Deployment of instances amid configuration changes

The present invention relates to mechanisms for managing VM instances. More specifically, the mechanisms provide at least one VM instance in a resource pool. A configuration requirement is provided with respect to a virtual machine, the configuration requirement describing a first amount of application resources to be installed on the virtual machine. Based on the configuration requirement, a resource tree is built describing a dependency relation between the first amount of application resources. At least one VM instance corresponding to a sub-path of the resource tree is provided in the resource pool, where on each VM instance in the at least one VM instance there are installed application resources included in the sub-path.

Managing a virtual machine instance

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