TW201913403A - System and method for automatic virtual machine conversion and environment setup across heterogeneous hypervisors - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a system and method for automatic virtual machine conversion and environment setup across heterogeneous hypervisors, the system including (1) a cloud service control unit, (2) a virtual machine conversion control unit, (3) a network environment control unit, (4) a virtual platform control unit, (5) a conversion platform, (6) a source end virtual platform and (7) a destination end virtual platform, thereby performing automatic virtual machine conversion and environment setup operation processes, simplifying complicated virtual machine conversion steps and procedures, reducing complicity and the required operation time to ensure normal operation and avoid irregularities or poor efficacy to achieve the objective of significantly reducing management costs of cloud environments.

Description

 Automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system and method across virtual platforms  

The present invention relates to a virtual machine migration and environment setting operation technology, and more particularly to an automatic virtual machine migration and environment setting operating system and method across a virtual platform.

In the architecture of computer science, a virtual machine is a special kind of software that can establish an environment between a computer platform and an end user, and the end user is based on the environment established by the software. Operating software.

In other words, virtual machine technology was originally applied to high-order servers by creating a virtual layer between the underlying hardware of each single machine and the upper layer software, and creating multiple logical partitions in the upper layer software, each logic. Partitioning is equivalent to a virtual machine, waiting for the same complete computer, including separate processors, memory, operating systems and file systems. The virtual layer is responsible for configuring resources such as processor and memory for different virtual machines. This has the advantage of being able to install a variety of different operating systems in a single server, not only independent, but also these virtualized hardware specifications. It is consistent.

In addition to talking about the virtual machine is a completely independent software container, including a operating system and applications, a virtual to virtual (V2V) technology is another level of use of the virtual machine. The process of copying or migrating a virtual machine (VM) image, data, or disk partition to another VM. That is, V2V helps to migrate data or machine instances between virtual machines and/or virtual environments.

However, when copying or migrating a VM's image, data, or disk partition to another VM, it is often set by different network environments, such as different network protocols and different firewall types. There are inconsistencies in the V2V image or data transfer and errors caused by improper human settings, which often causes the V2V conversion time to become longer.

Therefore, how to overcome the various problems of the above-mentioned prior art has become a problem that is currently being solved.

In view of the above-mentioned various deficiencies of the prior art, the present invention provides an automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system and method across a virtual platform.

The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system of the cross-virtual platform of the present invention comprises: a cloud service management unit for storing a plurality of virtual machines connected to a source virtual platform through a transfer platform a virtual machine information of the destination virtual platform and a setting instruction code of the network environment; a virtual platform management unit configured to provide a virtual machine image file of both the source virtual platform and the destination virtual platform according to the setting instruction codes The network environment control unit is configured to enable the network service control unit to send the network device information of the source virtual platform to the transfer platform according to the setting instruction codes. The network device configuration file of the network device information is converted and transferred to the destination virtual platform by the network device through the network environment control unit; and a virtual machine transfer control unit is used for the virtual platform control unit to After setting the instruction code to transfer the virtual machine image file of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform to the transfer platform, the virtual machine moves the control unit The image file of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform is converted into an image file corresponding to the virtual machine of the destination virtual platform, and the converted virtual machine image file is imported into the destination virtual platform by the virtual platform management unit.

The automatic virtual machine migration and environment setting operation method of the cross-virtual platform of the present invention comprises: a virtual machine of a virtual machine of a source virtual platform according to at least one setting instruction code through a virtual machine image export/import module The image file is exported to the transfer platform; the image file of the virtual machine of the transfer platform is converted into the image file of the virtual machine corresponding to the destination virtual platform by the virtual machine image file conversion module according to the at least one setting instruction code; a virtual machine image export/import module converts the converted virtual machine image file to the destination virtual platform according to the at least one setting instruction code; and extracts/imports the module according to a network device rule The at least one setting instruction code remits the network device configuration file of the source virtual platform to the migration platform, and then the migration platform merges into the destination virtual platform.

Therefore, the present invention focuses on the transfer process of a virtual machine across different virtual platforms, and automatically converts the image file of the virtual machine of the source cloud virtual platform and the network device profile into the destination cloud virtual platform through the cloud transfer platform. The adopted format and data, the transferred virtual machine can be used directly, no need to perform any network device setting and rule establishment, which can effectively reduce the operational complexity, and reduce the possible errors caused by human intervention, and thus accelerate The efficiency of virtual machine migration.

100‧‧‧Users

200‧‧‧Cloud Service Control Unit

210‧‧‧User interface module

220‧‧‧Database Module

230‧‧‧Process Controller Module

300‧‧‧Virtual Platform Control Unit

310‧‧‧Virtual Platform Controller Module

320‧‧‧Virtual Machine Management Module

330‧‧‧Virtual machine image export/import module

400‧‧‧Network Environment Control Unit

410‧‧‧Network Environment Controller Module

420‧‧‧Network Device Rules Export/Import Module

430‧‧‧Network Device Rule Setting Module

500‧‧‧Virtual Machine Transfer Control Unit

510‧‧‧Transfer controller module

520‧‧‧Virtual machine image file conversion module

530‧‧‧Virtual Machine Image Storage Space Setting Module

600‧‧‧Source virtual platform

610‧‧‧Network equipment

700‧‧‧Transfer platform

701‧‧‧Image of virtual machine A

702‧‧‧Image of virtual machine A’

710‧‧‧Network device profile

711‧‧‧Load Balancer B Profile

712‧‧‧Setup of Router C

713‧‧‧Firewall D configuration file

800‧‧‧ destination virtual platform

810‧‧‧Network equipment

A, A’‧‧‧ virtual machine

B, B’‧‧‧ load balancer

C, C’‧‧‧ router

D, D’‧‧‧ firewall

(a)~(h)‧‧‧ steps

1 is a block diagram of an automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system across virtual platforms of the present invention; and FIG. 2 is an automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operation method of the cross-virtual platform of the present invention. flow chart.

The other embodiments of the present invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art from this disclosure.

It is to be understood that the structure, the proportions, the size, and the like of the present invention are intended to be used in conjunction with the disclosure of the specification, and are not intended to limit the invention. The conditions are limited, so it is not technically meaningful. Any modification of the structure, change of the proportional relationship or adjustment of the size should remain in this book without affecting the effects and the objectives that can be achieved by the present invention. The technical content disclosed in the invention can be covered. In the meantime, the terms "upper", "one", "first", "second" and "third" are used in this specification for convenience of description, and are not intended to limit the invention. The scope of the implementation, the change or adjustment of the relative relationship, is also considered to be within the scope of the invention.

Figure 1 is a block diagram of an automatic virtual machine migration and environment setting operating system across the virtual platform of the present invention.

The system consists of four major units and three major platforms. The four major units include: (1) a cloud service management unit 200 having a user interface module 210, a database module 220, and a process controller module 230. And providing the user to operate the virtual machine transfer operation, and the virtual platform controller module 310 of the virtual platform control unit 300 and the network environment controller module 410 of the network environment management unit 400 are controlled by the process controller module 230. The virtual machine management unit 300 is provided with a virtual platform controller module 310, a virtual machine management module 320, and a virtual machine image file/ Importing module 330, and providing virtual machine image file export/import function of source virtual platform 600 and destination virtual platform 800 virtual machine; (3) network environment management unit 400 having network environment controller The module 410, the network device rule export/import module 420, and the network device rule setting module 430, and provide the network device configuration file export/import of the source virtual platform 600 and the destination virtual platform 800. And modify the function And (4) a virtual machine transfer control unit 500, which includes a transfer controller module 510, a virtual machine image file conversion module 520, and a virtual machine image storage space setting module 530, and provides a virtual machine image file and The network device profile is converted by the source virtual platform 600 to the destination virtual platform 800.

The three platforms are: (1) a source virtual platform 600, which provides one or more cloud virtual platforms as a source environment before virtual machine conversion; and (2) a migration platform 700, which provides one for each source virtual platform 600. The transfer platform corresponds to the virtual machine image file conversion operation; and (3) the destination end virtual platform 800, which provides one or more cloud virtual platforms as the virtual machine converted target environment.

The following is the system operation flow of the embodiment of the present invention. The user 100 operates through the user operation interface module 210 to provide a setting instruction code for the virtual machine transfer requirement, including virtualization of both the source virtual platform and the destination virtual platform. Information such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a login account, and/or a password. The user interface module 210 stores the information required for the migration process in the database module 220 and transmits it to the process controller module. Group 230.

The required information is also a set instruction code associated with the information and network environment of the virtual machine that transfers the virtual machine of the source virtual platform to the virtual machine of the destination virtual platform through the transfer platform, and is in the above units. Each module performs related work tasks according to the set instruction codes.

The first step of the process controller module 230 is to call the virtual platform management unit 300, shut down the virtual machine A of the source virtual platform 600 through the virtual machine management module 310, and export the image file 701 of the virtual machine A to the transfer. The platform 700, the call virtual machine transfer management unit 500 converts the image file 701 of the exported virtual machine A into the image file 702 of the virtual machine A', and the virtual platform management unit 300 converts the image of the converted virtual machine A'. File 702 is imported into the destination virtual platform 800.

The second step of the process controller module 230 is that the call network environment management unit 400 exports the network device configuration file 710 to the transfer platform 700, and sends the network device through the network device rule export/import module 420. The profile 710 is imported into the destination virtual platform 800 and then set by the network device rule setting module 430.

After receiving the instruction of the process controller module 230, the virtual platform management unit 300 first calls the virtual platform controller module 310 to perform virtual platform control, and the virtual platform controller module 310 passes the virtual machine A through the virtual machine management module 320. Shutdown, the virtual machine image export/import module 330 exports the image file 701 of the virtual machine A to the transfer platform 700 for conversion, and the image file 701 of the virtual machine A is converted into the image file of the virtual machine A'. After the 702, the process controller module 230 calls the virtual machine image export/import module 330 to import the image file 702 of the virtual machine A' into the destination virtual platform 800, and virtualizes through the virtual machine management module 320. Machine A is powered on.

After receiving the instruction of the process controller module 230, the network environment management unit 400 first calls the network environment controller module 410 for control, and the network environment controller module 410 remits/imports through the network device rules. The module 420 remits the network device profile 710 of the network device 610 to the transfer platform 700, and the process controller module 230 calls the network device rule export/import module 420 to set the network device profile 710. The destination virtual platform 800 is imported and modified by the network device rule setting module 430. For example, the network device 610 includes the device required for the operation of the virtual machine A. The network device 610 is not limited to a physical device, and may also be a virtual network service, such as load balancer B, router C, firewall D, and network address. Network Address Translation (NAT) information about this type of network device, but not limited to this.

As described above, the network device 610 includes the load balancer B, the router C, and the firewall D, after being exported to the transfer platform 700, via the configuration file 711 of the load balancer B in the network device profile 710, the router C. The configuration file 712 and the configuration file 713 of the firewall D are merged into the destination virtual platform 800, and are modified by the network device rule setting module 430 to become the load balancer B' and the router C' in the destination virtual platform 800. And firewall D'.

After receiving the instruction of the process controller module 230, the virtual machine transfer control unit 500 first calls the transfer controller module 510, and the transfer controller module 510 will be exported through the virtual machine image conversion module 520. The image file 701 of the virtual machine A to the transfer platform 700 is converted into the image file 702 of the virtual machine A' corresponding to the destination virtual platform 800, and the transfer controller module 510 is passed through the virtual machine image storage space setting module 530. The image file 702 of the virtual machine A' performs modification and setting of the virtual machine storage device.

It is worth mentioning that the system provides three detection mechanisms for detecting whether the image file 701 of the virtual machine A has entered the transfer platform 700, including: (1) when the image file 701 of the virtual machine A has entered the transfer platform. At 700 o'clock, the virtual platform management unit 300 is notified by the virtual platform management unit 300 to enable the virtual machine transfer management unit 500 to convert the image file 701 of the virtual machine A of the source virtual platform 600 into a corresponding destination. The virtual machine image file 702 of the virtual machine A' of the virtual platform 800; (2) The virtual machine migration management unit 500 periodically monitors whether the virtual machine image file 701 of the virtual machine A of the source virtual platform 600 is transferred to the transfer platform 700. And (3) the transfer platform 700 is provided with a detection program for detecting whether the virtual machine image file 701 of the virtual machine A of the source virtual platform 600 is transferred to the transfer platform 700.

Figure 2 is a flow chart of the automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operation method of the cross-virtual platform of the present invention.

The following is an automatic virtual machine migration and environment setting operation method for a cross-virtual platform according to an embodiment of the present invention, which includes the following steps: Step (a): storing a plurality of links through a database module to connect to a source through a transfer platform The virtual machine A of the virtual platform 600 is transferred to the information of the virtual machine A' of the destination virtual platform 800 and the setting instruction code of the network environment, and the process controller module 230 calls the virtual platform controller according to the setting instruction codes. Module 310; Step (b): Initiating virtual machine migration and network device profile conversion operation, virtual platform controller module 310 calls virtual machine image export/import module 330, through a virtual machine image file The set instruction code according to the export/import module 330 exports the image file 701 of the virtual machine A of the source virtual platform 600 to the transfer platform 700; step (c): the virtual machine transfer control unit 500 The transfer controller module 510 detects the set instruction codes according to the virtual machine image conversion module 520 when the image file 701 of the virtual machine A of the source virtual platform 600 is transferred to the transfer platform 700. Transfer platform 700 The image file 701 of the virtual machine A is converted into the image file 702 of the virtual machine A' corresponding to the destination virtual platform 800, and the virtual machine image storage module 530 is used to perform virtual machine storage on the image file 702 of the virtual machine A'. Modification and setting of the device, and calling the virtual machine image export/import module 330; step (d): the virtual machine image export/import module 330 merges the image file 701 of the virtual machine A into the destination Virtual machine A' of virtual platform 800; step (e): process controller module 230 calls network environment controller module 410; step (f): network environment controller module 410 calls network device rule remittance / Import module 420; Step (g): The network device 610 exports the network device profile 710 to the transfer platform 700 through the network device rule export/import module 420, and sets the network device rule through the network device. The module 430 modifies and sets the network device configuration file 710, and then connects to the destination virtual platform 800, and then calls the virtual machine management module 320 after completion; and step (h): the virtual machine management module 320 pairs The virtual machine A' of the destination virtual platform 800 is powered on.

Therefore, the virtual machine migration and environment setting operating system and method across the virtual platform proposed by the present invention can implement virtual machine image files and networks of virtual machines of multiple source virtual platforms through multiple migration platforms. The technical advantage of the device profile transfer to multiple destination virtual platforms.

In summary, the present invention provides an automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system and method across a virtual platform, and has the technical advantages of:

1. Automated detection of source and destination virtual platform environment and condensing complicated steps The instructions are used to automate scripts to speed up the virtual platform migration time and assist users to quickly transfer the source virtual platform to the destination virtual platform.

2. Provide cloud management and control unit to control and control virtual machine transfer control unit, network environment control unit and virtual platform control unit to simplify the complexity of operating virtual machine and network device configuration files and reduce manual intervention. Set the resulting mistakes.

3. Providing a virtual machine image transfer unit to perform virtual machine image file conversion, and importing the converted image file and network device configuration file into the destination virtual platform, and the virtual machine can be directly used after the target virtual platform is powered on. There is no need to perform complex network settings and rule establishment to improve the efficiency of virtual machine transfer and user satisfaction.

4. Providing a transfer process of multiple virtual machines across different virtual platforms, and automatically converting the image file of the virtual machine of the source cloud virtual platform and the network device profile to the destination cloud virtual platform through the cloud transfer platform Format and data, the transferred virtual machine can be used directly, no need to perform any network device setting and rule establishment, which can effectively reduce the operational complexity, reduce the possible errors caused by human intervention, and accelerate the virtual machine movement. The efficiency of the transfer.

The above embodiments are intended to illustrate the principles of the invention and its effects, and are not intended to limit the invention. Any of the above-described embodiments may be modified by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be as set forth in the appended claims.

Claims (10)

 An automatic virtual machine migration and environment setting operating system across a virtual platform includes: a cloud service management unit for storing a plurality of virtual machines connected to a source virtual platform through a transfer platform a virtual machine information of the virtual platform and a setting instruction code of the network environment; a virtual platform management unit, configured to provide a virtual machine image of the source virtual platform and the destination virtual platform according to the setting instruction codes a network environment control unit for the cloud service control unit to cause the network environment management unit to retransmit the network device information of the source virtual platform according to the setting instruction codes to The transfer platform converts and converts the network device profile of the network device information from the transfer platform to the destination virtual platform through the network environment control unit; and a virtual machine transfer control unit, The virtual platform management unit moves the virtual machine image file of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform to the transfer platform according to the setting instruction codes. The virtual machine transfer control unit converts the image file of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform into an image file of the virtual machine corresponding to the destination virtual platform, and the virtual platform control unit converts the converted virtual The machine image file is imported into the destination virtual platform.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system according to claim 1, wherein the source virtual platform is before the image file of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform is transferred to the transfer platform. The virtual machine is powered off.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system according to claim 1, wherein the setting instruction code comprises a virtual machine internet protocol address of the source virtual platform and the destination virtual platform, Login to your account and/or password.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system according to claim 1, wherein the network device information in the source virtual platform is configured by a network device of the network environment management unit. The migration platform is converted to a specification corresponding to the network device information in the destination virtual platform.    For example, the automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system described in claim 1 is used to detect whether the virtual machine image file has entered the detection mechanism of the transfer platform to be the virtual machine. When the image file has entered the migration platform, the detection mechanism is notified by the virtual platform management unit to the cloud service management unit, so that the cloud service management unit causes the virtual machine to transfer the control unit to the source virtual platform. The virtual machine image of the virtual machine is converted into a virtual machine image of the virtual machine corresponding to the destination virtual platform.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system described in claim 1 is used to detect whether the virtual machine image file has entered the detection mechanism of the transfer platform to be the virtual machine image file. When the migration platform has entered the detection platform, the detection mechanism periodically monitors whether the virtual machine image file of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform is transferred to the migration platform.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system described in claim 1 is used to detect whether the virtual machine image file has entered the detection mechanism of the transfer platform to be the virtual machine image file. When the migration platform is entered, the detection mechanism is configured to detect whether the virtual machine image of the virtual machine of the source virtual platform is transferred to the detection platform of the migration platform.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operating system as described in claim 5, 6 or 7, wherein the cloud service control unit has a database module for storing the associations through the transfer The platform transfers the virtual machine of the source virtual platform to the information of the virtual machine of the destination virtual platform and the setting instruction code of the network environment, so that a process control module of the cloud service management unit is configured according to the setting instructions. The virtual platform management unit, the network environment management unit, and the virtual machine transfer management unit perform a conversion operation of the virtual machine image file of the source virtual platform and the destination virtual platform.    An automatic virtual machine migration and environment setting operation method across a virtual platform includes: a virtual machine image of a virtual machine of a source virtual platform according to at least one setting instruction code through a virtual machine image export/import module The file is exported to the transfer platform; the image file of the virtual machine of the transfer platform is converted into the image file of the virtual machine corresponding to the destination virtual platform by the virtual machine image file conversion module according to the at least one setting instruction code; The virtual machine image export/import module merges the converted virtual machine image file into the destination virtual platform according to the at least one setting instruction code; and sends/imports the module through a network device rule The group remits the network device configuration file of the source virtual platform to the migration platform according to the at least one setting instruction code, and then the migration platform is imported into the destination virtual platform.    The automatic virtual machine transfer and environment setting operation method as described in claim 9 further includes storing, by a database module, a virtual machine connected to the source virtual platform through the transfer platform The at least one setting instruction code of the virtual machine of the destination virtual platform and the network environment.