TWI709941B - System for integrated management of virtual and physical resources and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a system for integrated management of virtual and physical resources and a method thereof. In the present invention, a supply status record is generated through VNF resource provisioning process according to the user requirements interface, and the construction of VNF, query of VNF structure, bureau data of VNF are established by using the change of the provisioning process and a limited state machine for completing the provision installation of VNF. The VNF information will be archived in the common database of virtual and physical resources for subsequent management. A corresponding network device data file can be established through the foregoing process, and a method for integrating management of virtual and physical resources can be realized. Since the device data file of a single data structure is used for the virtual and physical devices, the user can use an integrated single manner for subsequent monitoring, query, or service resource allocation, which will be suitable for future diversified Software-Define cloud services.

Description

Integrated management system and method for virtual and real resources

The present invention relates to virtual and real resource management technology, in detail, it relates to a virtual and real resource integrated management system and method.

In order to effectively control network physical devices, existing systems can provide resource management, and under the prevalence of cloud technology, some physical devices are virtualized to provide related functions. This can be called virtual resources. However, the current lack of The management of virtual resources, for example, the data archiving of network physical equipment usually needs to be established manually, and because the virtual resources are programmed, data archiving can be completed through program automation according to the demand for installation. However, the data format requirements of physical device data and virtual resource device data are significantly different. Therefore, it is impossible to manage physical device data and virtual resource device data with a single system, which results in management personnel unable to properly arrange and allocate physical device resources and virtual resources , In the integration and management of resources, it also needs to consume more human resources and costs.

In summary, based on the current mechanism that only manages physical equipment resources, there is no management mechanism for virtual resources. Therefore, if you can find a management method for virtual resources, especially The ability to use the same system or method to manage physical equipment resources and virtual resources will be a great benefit to managers, and it will also make the resource management of virtual and real equipment more convenient. This will become the goal of those skilled in the art who are eager to pursue solutions. .

The purpose of the present invention is to propose a virtual resource integration mechanism for physical device resource management, especially in the increasingly complex software-defined network (SDN) software-defined network (SDN) software-defined cloud resource and network service architecture. To integrate methods of managing virtual resources and physical equipment resources.

To achieve the above and other objectives, the present invention proposes a virtual and real resource integration management system, which includes: a virtual resource demand interface conversion order module, which is used to convert a virtual resource demand interface received by a northbound acceptance system into a joint Single interface, through the virtual resource demand interface to convert the order management function of the order module to start the automatic supply and installation process according to the order demand; the virtual resource supply life cycle management module is used to control the life cycle of the supply and installation process , The virtual resource supply life cycle management module expands the automatic supply process according to the order interface; the query virtual resource structure and supply status module is used to query the virtual resource group when the automatic supply process is executed To confirm the correctness and rationality of the structure data of the virtual resource structure; generate a virtual resource situation data module, which is used to send the virtual resource setting content of the automatic provisioning process to a Control components in the cloud to complete the establishment of virtual network functions, and obtain local situation data of the virtual network functions through the virtual resource structure; and a common database of virtual and real resources for storing the generated virtual resource situation data The situation data of the virtual network function obtained by the module.

In the aforementioned system, the process state transition in the automatic supply process is defined by the supply state table and the limited supply state machine, thereby automatically controlling the supply process.

In the aforementioned system, the common database of virtual and real resources includes storing manually entered physical equipment resource information.

In the aforementioned system, the situation information includes the name of the equipment location, the equipment brand model, the equipment status, and the node identification name.

In the aforementioned system, a manual order processing module is also included, which is used when the virtual resource demand interface conversion order module fails to activate the automatic assembly process and the order request is converted to a manual order processing process through the alarm function Notify system personnel to perform manual processing.

In addition, after manually troubleshooting the problem, re-enter the automatic provisioning process, so that the virtual resource generation data module can resend the virtual resource setting content to the cloud control component, or the query virtual resource structure and The module for the installation status retrieves the structure data of the virtual resource structure.

In the aforementioned system, the complex includes a southbound interface connection module that provides a unified format of the virtual resource installation interface, and is used for the virtual resource installation lifecycle management module to be delivered through the southbound interface connection module The content of the virtual resource is set to the control element in the cloud at the bottom layer.

The present invention further proposes a virtual and real resource integration management method, which includes: converting a virtual resource demand interface received by a northbound acceptance system into a joint order interface, so as to start an automatic supply and installation process according to the joint order demand; and launch the automatic order based on the joint order interface The supply process is used to control the life cycle of the supply process; the virtual resource structure and supply status during the execution of the automatic supply process are queried to confirm the correctness and rationality of the structure data of the virtual resource structure; The virtual resource setting content of the automatic installation process is transferred to a control component in the cloud to complete the establishment of the virtual network function, and Obtain the situation data of the virtual network function through the virtual resource structure; and store the situation data in a common database of virtual and real resources.

In the aforementioned method, the process state transition in the automatic supply process is defined by the supply state table and the limited supply state machine, thereby automatically controlling the supply process.

In the aforementioned method, the common database of virtual and real resources includes storing manually entered physical equipment resource information.

In the aforementioned method, it includes that when the virtual resource requirement interface conversion module fails to activate the automatic supply process and the order requirement is converted to a manual order processing process, the system personnel are notified to perform manual processing through an alarm function.

In addition, after the problem is manually eliminated and the automatic provisioning process is re-entered, the virtual resource setting content is re-delivered to the control element in the cloud, or the structure data of the virtual resource structure is retrieved.

In the foregoing method, sending the virtual resource setting content of the automatic provisioning process to the cloud control element is executed through a virtual resource provisioning interface with a uniform format.

In summary, the virtual and real resource integrated management system and method of the present invention store the situation data of various virtualized network resources or physical resource devices through a universal virtual and real resource common database, and use unified Easy to expand the format interface and Restful API implementation method for virtual network function (Virtual Network Function, VNF) configuration settings and local situation data creation, which can save development costs, such as self-updating by the bottom layer or changing virtual network functions (VNF) ), the structured data can also be synchronized to the common database of virtual and real resources in real time through a unified interface; in addition, the present invention utilizes the network resource service collaboration supply process to file and manage virtual resources without the need for traditional physical equipment management Requires a series of manual operations and manual file-by-file processing, which is helpful for virtual reality Resource integration and management can also achieve higher operational efficiency and lower costs.

1‧‧‧Integrated management system of virtual and real resources

11‧‧‧Virtual resource demand interface conversion unit module

12‧‧‧Virtual resource supply lifecycle management module

13‧‧‧Query virtual resource structure and supply status module

14‧‧‧Generate virtual resource situation data module

15‧‧‧Common database of virtual and real resources

16‧‧‧Manual single processing module

17‧‧‧Southbound connection module

411‧‧‧Virtual Router

S31~S35‧‧‧Step

401~406‧‧‧Process

Figure 1 is a system architecture diagram of the virtual and real resource integrated management system of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a system architecture diagram of another virtual and real resource integrated management system of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a step diagram of the virtual and real resource integrated management method of the present invention.

Figure 4 is an operational flowchart of vMX cloud resource provisioning and management in a specific embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the operation of the limited supply state machine used in the above specific embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 6 is a service architecture diagram of the present invention in a software-defined network virtual private network in conjunction with the above-mentioned specific embodiments.

The following describes the technical content of the present invention with specific specific embodiments. Those familiar with the art can easily understand the advantages and effects of the present invention from the content disclosed in this specification. However, the present invention can also be implemented or applied by other different specific embodiments.

In order to provide a diversified communication service provider cloud, the present invention extends the concepts of network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) to operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (Business Support System). , BSS), because it needs to be built on a virtual and real hybrid infrastructure, it uses an integrated single method to manage virtual resources and physical equipment resources, so that heterogeneous management can be achieved under the infrastructure of various data centers, public clouds or private clouds. The management system can use a single access method to monitor, query, or assign service resources to virtual and real resources, so as to achieve a consistent operation mode and share the underlying hardware and software infrastructure in the hope of achieving higher operating efficiency and reducing costs.

Figure 1 is a system architecture diagram of the virtual and real resource integrated management system of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the virtual and real resource integrated management system 1 provides a virtual network function (VNF) supply and installation process and management operations, which includes a virtual resource demand interface conversion unit module 11 and a virtual resource supply life cycle management module 12 , Query the virtual resource structure and supply status module 13, generate the virtual resource situation data module 14 and the virtual and real resource common database 15.

The virtual resource demand interface conversion order module 11 converts the virtual resource demand interface received by a northbound acceptance system into the order interface, so that the order management function of the order module is converted according to the order request through the virtual resource demand interface Start the automatic installation process. In detail, the virtual resource requirement interface conversion unit 11 module is responsible for converting the virtual resource requirement interface of the northbound acceptance system into a unit order interface, and then through the unit order management function to start the automatic order supply process, that is, northbound The acceptance system accepts the installation request. Because the northbound acceptance system may have different data recording formats due to system differences, the virtual resource request interface conversion order module 11 is used to convert the virtual resource request interface received by the northbound acceptance system into an online Single interface, and start the automatic installation process according to the order requirement. In addition, if there is a process problem that requires manual intervention, for example, when the underlying resources are insufficient, the manual order processing process will be initiated, which will be described in detail later.

The virtual resource supply life cycle management module 12 manages and controls the life cycle of the supply process or the automatic supply process. The virtual resource supply life cycle management module 12 starts the automatic supply process according to the order interface. Specifically, after the interface conversion is performed by the virtual resource demand interface conversion unit module 11, the virtual resource supply life cycle management module 12 is activated and is responsible for management and control. The loading process is based on the automatic loading process based on the order interface, wherein the process state transition of the automatic loading process is defined through the loading state table and the finite state machine to automatically control the loading process or the automatic loading process.

The inquiring virtual resource structure and supply status module 13 queries the virtual resource structure and supply status during the execution of the automatic supply process to confirm the correctness and rationality of the structure data of the virtual resource structure. In short, the module 13 for querying the virtual resource structure and supply status is responsible for querying the virtual resource structure and supply status, and checks the correctness and rationality of the structure data.

The virtual resource situation data generation module 14 dispatches the virtual resource setting content of the automatic installation process to a control component in the cloud to complete the establishment of the virtual network function, and obtains the virtual network through the virtual resource structure Functional situation information. It can be seen from the above that the virtual resource situation data generation module 14 can send the virtual resource setting content to the cloud control element, such as the cloud control and management system on the cloud, to complete the establishment of the VNF, and in addition, generate the virtual resource situation information The data module 14 can also obtain information about the virtual network function based on the content of the virtual resource structure queried by the query virtual resource structure and the installation status module 13.

The virtual and real resource common database 15 stores the local situation data of the virtual network function obtained by the virtual resource generation module 14. Specifically, the virtual and real resource common database 15 can store information about virtual network functions. In addition, the virtual and real resource common database 15 also stores physical device resource information, in other words, physical device and virtual resource device information The data can be established in the common database 15 of virtual and real resources through the manual file creation operation of physical equipment and the automatic installation method of the virtual resource supply and installation process respectively. In a specific embodiment, the situation information may include the name of the device location, the device brand model, the device status, and the node identification name, etc. News.

It can be seen from the above that the virtual and real resource integrated management system 1 of the present invention uses an integrated single method to manage virtual resources and physical device resources, so that the heterogeneous management system can monitor, query, or assign service resources to virtual and real resources in a single access mode. The system of the invention only needs a universal common database of virtual and real resources to store various types of virtualized network resources or physical resource equipment situation data, and the virtual resource can be filed by using the network resource service collaborative supply process Management, there is no need for a series of manual operations and manual file-by-file processing for the management of existing physical equipment. In addition, the present invention can drive life cycle management by itself through the change of the supply record status and the limited supply state machine. VNF, query VNF structure and status, establish VNF situation information, etc. for installation and management operations, so it can provide maximum benefits for the integration and management of virtual and real resources.

Figure 2 is a system architecture diagram of the virtual and real resource integrated management system of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the virtual and real resource integrated management system 1 has the same virtual resource requirement interface conversion unit module 11, the virtual resource supply life cycle management module 12, and the query virtual resource structure and supply as described in Figure 1. Status module 13, generating virtual resource situation data module 14 and virtual and real resource common database 15. In this embodiment, the virtual and real resource integrated management system 1 further includes a manual single processing module 16 and a southbound connection connection Module 17.

The manual order processing module 16 notifies the system personnel to perform manual processing through the alarm function when the virtual resource demand interface conversion order module fails to activate the automatic supply process and converts the order order request to the manual order processing process. In detail, the manual order processing module 16 is responsible for converting the order to a manual order processing flow when the automatic loading fails, and informs the system personnel for manual processing with an alarm function.

In addition, after manually troubleshooting the problem, re-enter the automatic installation process to make the The virtual resource situation data generation module 14 resends the virtual resource setting content to the control component in the cloud, or the query virtual resource structure and supply status module 13 retrieves the structure data of the virtual resource structure . It can be seen from the above that after the problem is manually eliminated, the limited supply state machine can change the process record state from the initial state to the intermediate state and then re-enter the automatic supply process to resend the virtual resource setting content and other data to the cloud control component or It is to retrieve the configuration data of the virtual network function (VNF).

The southbound interface connection module 17 provides a unified format for the virtual resource installation interface, and the southbound interface connection module 17 is used for the virtual resource installation lifecycle management module 12 to be connected through the southbound interface The line module 17 sends the virtual resource setting content to the control element in the cloud at the bottom layer. In short, the virtual resource supply lifecycle management module 12 can send data to the underlying cloud control components through the southbound interface connection module 17, and the southbound interface connection module 17 uses the unified Format virtual resource for the installation interface, the interface content contains the configuration data required to generate the virtual network function (VNF), and then implemented through the Restful API, including GET, POST, DELETE and other implementation methods to complete the life cycle management Project acquisition structure, VNF creation, and VNF deletion operations. This architecture can quickly respond to the installation of new VNFs, and use the same interface to generate and deploy virtual resources based on different equipment situation data.

In summary, the stand-alone virtual network function (VNF) is the key to the transformation of current communication services. If a new VNF is on the shelf, the present invention can use the unified and easy-to-expandable format interface and the Restful API implementation method to configure the VNF. The establishment of local situation data, because of its flexibility and scalability, can quickly provide various new network functions, which can save development costs, such as self-renewing or changing VNFs from the bottom layer, and real-time synchronization of structured data through a unified interface. Resource Common Database 15.

Figure 3 is a step diagram of the virtual and real resource integrated management method of the present invention. As shown in the figure, in step S31, a virtual resource demand interface received by the northbound acceptance system is converted into a joint order interface, so that the automatic supply process is started according to the joint order demand. In this step, the northbound acceptance system accepts external supply requests. Based on the differences between the systems, there are different data recording formats. Therefore, the virtual resource demand interface received by the northbound acceptance system must first be converted into a joint order interface. Start the automatic installation process with the order requirement.

In one embodiment, the process state transition in the automatic supply process is defined by the supply state table and the limited supply state machine, thereby automatically controlling the supply process.

In step S32, the automatic installation process is launched according to the order interface to control the installation process or the life cycle of the automatic installation process. In detail, after the virtual resource demand interface is converted to the interface of the order interface, the automatic supply process can be activated and the supply process can be controlled according to the order interface. In one embodiment, the process state transition of the automatic supply process is defined through the supply state table and the finite state machine, so as to automatically control the supply process or the automatic supply process.

In step S33, query the virtual resource structure and the supply status when the automatic provisioning process is executed to confirm the correctness and rationality of the structure data of the virtual resource structure. This step means that after the installation process is executed again, the virtual resource structure and the installation status of the automatic installation process can be queried, so as to check the correctness and rationality of the structure data.

In step S34, the virtual resource setting content of the automatic installation process is sent to a control element in the cloud to complete the establishment of the virtual network function, and the virtual resource configuration is used to obtain the situational data of the virtual network function. Specifically, the virtual resource setting content of the automatic provisioning process will be sent to the cloud control element in the cloud to execute the establishment of the virtual network function, and subsequently can obtain information about the virtual network based on the content of the virtual resource structure Road function This information may include information such as the name of the equipment location, equipment brand model, equipment status, and node identification name.

In one embodiment, sending the virtual resource setting content of the automatic provisioning process to the cloud control element is executed through a virtual resource provisioning interface with a uniform format. That is to say, the delivery of virtual resource configuration content is performed through a virtual resource supply interface. The purpose is to use a unified format virtual resource supply interface. The interface content includes the configuration data required when generating VNFs, and then implements it through the Restful API. It can quickly respond to the installation of new VNFs, and use the same interface to generate and deploy virtual resources according to different equipment situations.

In step S35, the situation information is stored in a common database of virtual and real resources. In this step, the situation data obtained in the previous step can be stored in the common database of virtual and real resources. In addition, the common database of virtual and real resources also stores the resource information of physical equipment, that is, the information of physical equipment and virtual resource equipment can be It is generated and stored in a common database of virtual and real resources through the manual file creation operation of physical equipment and the automatic installation method of the virtual resource supply and installation process.

In the above method, when the virtual resource requirement interface conversion module fails to activate the automatic supply process and the order requirement is converted to the manual order processing process, the system personnel are notified to perform manual processing through the alarm function. It can be seen from the above that when the automatic loading process fails, the combined order requirement will be converted to a manual order processing process, and the system personnel will be notified for manual processing. In addition, after the problem is manually eliminated and the automatic provisioning process is re-entered, the virtual resource setting content can be re-delivered to a control component in the cloud, or the structure data of the virtual resource structure can be retrieved.

In addition, the present invention uses a supply state table and a limited supply state machine to perform virtual network function (VNF) supply life cycle management operations. The limited supply state machine is composed of a set of states, an initial state, and inputs. The conversion function that converts the input and the current state to the next state The present invention uses the principle of the limited supply state machine to drive the VNF automatic supply process by using the supply state change. The initial state is {I}, the state {I}+VNF supply state Provisioning=state {A }, the status {A} can drive the installation process to the next step to check back the VNF configuration and status, the status {A}+VNF supply status Running = the status {F}, the status {F} can drive the check The returned VNF structure data is filed in the common database of virtual and real resources. Regarding the application of the limited supply state machine, an example will be described later.

Figure 4 is an operational flowchart of vMX cloud resource provisioning and management in a specific embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, firstly, the demand for installation of vMX cloud resources will be received. This demand will get relevant information through the VNF demand interface, that is, when the VNF demand interface of the northbound acceptance system is received, the automatic supply will start Process.

In process 401, the VNF demand interface is converted to the single interface. This process is to convert the demand interface into a processing interface for order management, that is, to transform the virtual resource demand interface received by the northbound acceptance system into a order interface.

In the process 402, the VNF supply station status record is generated according to the order requirement. This process is to expand the required loading station to set the status of the loading record according to the requirements of the order. The status definition is shown in the following table 1. The initial state of the supply process is {I}, which means the order will be The VNF requirement setting value is successfully converted into the unified format required by Restful API.

表一

Table I

Please refer to Figure 5, which is a schematic diagram of the operation of the limited supply state machine according to the present invention. Initial represents the initial state. The state code for entering the limited supply state machine is {I}. When checking the data When an error (Data check fail) is found, it is usually that the required data is wrong at the beginning. At this time, the status code of the limited supply state machine is {IM}. At this time, after the error is eliminated through data modification, the limited supply The state machine's state returns to the code {I}, then provisioning (Provisioning), at this time the state code of the limited supply state machine becomes {A}, if the provisioning fail (Provisioning fail), then the limited provisioning state The state code of the machine changes to {AM} until after the manual removal (Manually solved), the state of the limited supply state machine returns to the code {A}, and the provisioning is continued, and it will be executed after the provisioning is completed ( Running) Perform VNF fabric data query, and after completion, the status code of the limited supply state machine becomes {F}.

In the process 403, the request is sent to the control component in the cloud. In this process, when the demand is sent to the control component in the cloud and the response message of provisioning is obtained, the provisioning process state of the limited provisioning state machine shown in Figure 5 will be set as provisioning processing {A }, that is, the control components in the southbound cloud generate virtual network function (VNF) resources.

In the process 404, the VNF status and configuration are inquired. In this process, after the virtual network function (VNF) is successfully generated, the status of the virtual network function (VNF) can be checked as Running, so as to confirm the completion of the VNF generation in the cloud and obtain the VNF configuration data.

In process 405, the VNF information is established. In this process, when the device configuration is successfully queried, the VNF situation data is automatically filed to the common database of virtual and real resources, and the process state of the limited supply state machine is set to the supply complete according to the running state {F}.

In flow 406, it is a manual single processing flow. When the process 404 is the bottom response If the installation fails, it will enter this process, that is, when the automatic provisioning fails, the provisioning status of the virtual resource is inquired as Provisioning fail and the order is directed to the manual order processing process, and then the system personnel are notified to deal with it in an alarm manner.

In addition, the common database of virtual and real resources also records physical equipment resources, that is, in conjunction with the existing physical equipment resource manual file creation process, a series of manual processing operations are used to file and manage the equipment, including physical equipment procurement, computer room management, equipment shelves, Operations such as equipment file management can be completed. Therefore, in the present invention, both virtual resources and physical resources use the same common device resource database (virtual and real resources common database), so subsequent user monitoring, query, or service assignment and use can be provided in a single way, which can reduce the management of virtual resources. Development cost of resources.

Figure 6 is a service architecture diagram of the present invention in a software-defined network virtual private network in conjunction with the above-mentioned specific embodiments. Please refer to Figures 4, 5 and 6 at the same time. Here, we will use specific examples to illustrate the pre-installation and management of the software-defined network (SDN) virtual private network (VPN) service.的实施方式。

The following table 2 is an example of vMX installation data setting, which can set the VNF type, brand type and VNF specification. Figure 6 is an example of the SDN VPN service architecture diagram. The application scope of this embodiment is for the installation of virtual routers. vMX 411. The following Table 2 is only the equipment information used in this embodiment, but this is only for illustrative purposes and does not limit the present invention.

The vMX service is installed through a three-tier collaboration architecture. The so-called three-tier collaboration architecture includes The service system collaboration layer (Service Orchestrator), resource system collaboration layer (Resource Orchestrator) and network function virtual management system collaboration layer (NFV Orchestrator) are installed according to this architecture. When a user applies for a software-defined network (SDN) virtual private network (VPN) service, the project manager can send the vMX set of configuration data to the northbound acceptance system, and the northbound acceptance system will send this vMX request interface to the service system The collaboration layer begins the supply process.

For example, in the process 401 in Figure 4, the service system collaboration layer receives the vMX demand interface and performs interface conversion to obtain the order. The demand may be to create vMX or delete vMX resources. Then, as shown in the process 402 in Figure 4, follow the order requirements The content generates a virtual network function (VNF) status record for the installation site, which can be shown in Table 3 below.

In Table 3 above, the current state of execution sequence number 1 is "No status", the supply processing status is {I}, which means the initial state, and the next state is provisioning; the current state of execution sequence number 2 is "Provisioning", the provisioning processing status is {A}, which means that the provisioning processing is in progress, and the next state is Running, and the remaining execution sequence numbers indicate that the content is as described above. In addition, the unified format Restful API is used between the service system collaboration layer and the resource system collaboration layer to transfer the vMX configuration data interface.

Then, as shown in the process 403 in Figure 4, the demand interface is sent to the control component in the cloud (such as the control and management system in the cloud). At this time, the status of vMX has been updated to Provisioning, that is, the provisioning process is in progress. , And then, the network function virtual management system collaboration layer will Generate vMX. After the generation is successful, the vMX state will be converted to Running. At this time, although vMX has been generated, it has not been synchronized with the service management and resource management.

Afterwards, as shown in the process 404 in Figure 4, by checking back the vMX configuration data, the service system collaboration layer can file the vMX situation data in the common data of virtual and real resources based on the configuration data, as shown in the process 405 in Figure 4 After the situation information is filed in the database, the service system collaboration layer informs the resource system collaboration layer to take care of the vMX resources, and subsequently provide software-defined network (SDN) virtual private network (VPN) service assignments. , Also allows users to manage and monitor. The status change of the successful establishment of vMX automatic installation can be as shown in Table 3 above.

In addition, if an error occurs in the automatic generation of vMX, the service system collaboration layer will query the provisioning status and display Provisioning fail. At this time, as shown in the process 406 in Figure 4, the order will be converted to a manual order and a notification will also be issued The staff of the alarm system draws orders for manual processing. Finally, after the system personnel have eliminated the problem, the process state can be set to {I} (initial state) or {A} (for installation processing), so that the supply installation process can re-enter automatic processing. The status changes of the aforementioned failure to establish vMX automatic supply and completion of manual processing can be shown in Table 4 below.

In Table 4 above, the execution sequence number 2 failed because of the failure of automatic loading, and the next execution sequence number 3's supply processing status will be changed to {AM}, which means that the automatic supply is transferred to a manual order, and its current status is "Provision fail". At this time, manual processing will be performed. After the problem is manually eliminated, enter the execution Line number 4, its supply processing status is to return to {A}, which means that the supply processing is in progress. The rest of the execution sequence numbers indicate that the content is the same as the above description, and will not be described one by one here.

In summary, the present invention is a virtual and real resource integrated management system and method. It can generate a supply status record through a virtual network function (VNF) resource supply process based on the user's demand interface, and use the change and The limited supply state machine is used to drive the establishment of VNF, query the VNF structure, and establish the VNF situation data to complete the supply process of the VNF. Among them, the setting data required to establish the VNF is to use the unified format of the southbound interface. The Restful API is implemented by sending the VNF configuration data to each control component in the cloud. After the control component in the cloud has adjusted resources to generate the VNF, the VNF configuration will be queried according to the status of the supply record and the Restful API interface. VNF situation data is filed in the common database of virtual and real resources to facilitate subsequent management. Among them, when the control component in the cloud fails to generate VNF, use the change of the installation record status to drive the alarm to notify the system personnel for manual problem elimination and restart generation and query Process, by creating the corresponding network device data file through the foregoing process, an integrated management method of virtual and real resources can be realized. Because the virtual and physical devices share a single data structure of the device data file, the subsequent user monitoring is provided in a single integrated manner , Inquiries, or allocation of service resources to provide diversified software-defined cloud services in the future.

The above-mentioned embodiments only exemplify the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not used to limit the present invention. Anyone familiar with this technique can modify and change the above-mentioned embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be as listed in the scope of patent application described later.

1‧‧‧Integrated management system of virtual and real resources

11‧‧‧Virtual resource demand interface conversion unit module

12‧‧‧Virtual resource supply lifecycle management module

13‧‧‧Query virtual resource structure and supply status module

14‧‧‧Generate virtual resource situation data module

15‧‧‧Common database of virtual and real resources

Claims (13)

A virtual and real resource integrated management system includes: a virtual resource demand interface conversion order module, which is used to convert a virtual resource demand interface received by a northbound acceptance system into a joint order interface, so as to convert the order through the virtual resource demand interface The order management function of the single module starts the automatic supply and installation process according to the order requirements; the virtual resource supply life cycle management module is used to control the life cycle of the supply and installation process. The virtual resource supply life cycle management module is based on The united order interface expands the automatic provisioning process; the query virtual resource structure and provisioning status module is used to query the virtual resource structure and provisioning status when the automatic provisioning process is executed, so as to perform the automatic provisioning process. When the process is successfully installed, confirm that the structure data of the virtual resource structure is correct and reasonable; generate a virtual resource situation data module, which is used to send the virtual resource setting content of the automatic installation process to a cloud The internal control component is used to complete the establishment of the virtual network function, and obtain the local situation data of the virtual network function through the virtual resource structure; and the virtual and real resource common database is used to store the generated virtual resource situation data model The situation data of the virtual network function obtained by the group. For example, the virtual and real resource integrated management system described in the first item of the scope of patent application, wherein the process state transition in the automatic supply process is defined through the supply state table and the limited supply state machine to automatically control the supply process. For example, in the integrated management system of virtual and real resources described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, the common database of virtual and real resources includes storing manually typed physical equipment resource information. For example, the virtual and real resource integrated management system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, where the situation information includes the name of the equipment location, the equipment brand model, the equipment status, and the node identification name. For example, the virtual and real resource integration management system described in the first item of the patent application includes a manual order processing module, which is used for the virtual resource demand interface conversion order module to activate the automatic supply process and the order request fails. When switching to manual single processing, the system personnel will be notified to perform manual processing through the alarm function. For example, the virtual and real resource integrated management system described in item 5 of the scope of patent application, in which the automatic installation process is re-entered after the problem is manually eliminated, so that the virtual resource generation data module can resend the virtual resource setting content to The control element in the cloud may retrieve the structure data of the virtual resource structure by the query virtual resource structure and the installation status module. For example, the virtual and real resource integrated management system described in the first item of the scope of patent application includes a southbound connection connection module that provides a unified format of virtual resource supply interface for the virtual resource supply life cycle management module Send the virtual resource setting content to the cloud control component located at the bottom layer through the southbound connection connection module. A method for integrated management of virtual and real resources, which includes: converting a virtual resource demand interface received by a northbound acceptance system into a joint order interface to start an automatic supply and installation process based on the joint order demand; and expand the automatic supply and installation process according to the joint order interface. Control the life cycle of the installation process; query the virtual resource structure and the state of the installation when the automatic installation process is executed, so as to confirm that the virtual resource structure's structure data is correct when the automatic installation process is successfully installed Sex and rationality; Send the virtual resource setting content of the automatic installation process to a control component in the cloud to complete the establishment of the virtual network function, and obtain the situation data of the virtual network function through the virtual resource structure; and store the situation The information is in the common database of virtual and real resources. For example, the virtual and real resource integrated management method described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the process state transition in the automatic supply process is defined by the supply state table and the limited supply state machine, thereby automatically controlling the supply process. For example, the virtual and real resources integrated management method described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the common database of virtual and real resources includes storing manually entered physical equipment resource information. For example, the integrated management method of virtual and real resources described in item 8 of the scope of patent application is included when the virtual resource demand interface conversion order module fails to activate the automatic installation process and the order requirement is converted to a manual order processing process. Notify system personnel to perform manual processing through the alarm function. For example, the virtual and real resource integrated management method described in item 11 of the scope of patent application, wherein after the problem is manually eliminated and the automatic installation process is re-entered, the virtual resource setting content is re-delivered to the control component in the cloud, or re- Obtain the structure data of the virtual resource structure. The virtual and real resource integrated management method described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the dispatching of the virtual resource setting content of the automatic provisioning process to the cloud control component is executed through a virtual resource provisioning interface with a unified format.

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