A system for dynamically load-balancing at least one redistribution element across a group of computing resources that facilitates at least an aspect of an Industrial Execution Process in an M:N working configuration is illustrated. The system is configured to: access from a central or distributed data store, a configuration component operational data and capabilities or characteristics associated with the M:N working configuration; identify a load-balancing opportunity to trigger redistribution of a redistribution element to a redistribution target selected from a redistribution target pool defined by remaining computing resource components associated with the M:N computing resource working configuration; select at least one redistribution target for redeployment; redeploy the at least one redistribution element to the redistribution target; determine redeployment to the at least one selected redistribution target to be a viable redeployment; and execute the Industrial Execution Process utilizing the at least one redistribution element at the selected redistribution target.

A system for dynamically load-balancing at least one redistribution element across a group of computing resources that facilitates at least an aspect of an Industrial Execution Process in an M:N working configuration is illustrated. The system is configured to: access from a central or distributed data store, a configuration component operational data and capabilities or characteristics associated with the M:N working configuration; identify a load-balancing opportunity to trigger redistribution of a redistribution element to a redistribution target selected from a redistribution target pool defined by remaining computing resource components associated with the M:N computing resource working configuration; select at least one redistribution target for redeployment; redeploy the at least one redistribution element to the redistribution target; determine redeployment to the at least one selected redistribution target to be a viable redeployment; and execute the Industrial Execution Process utilizing the at least one redistribution element at the selected redistribution target.

Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for managing communications within a supercluster or across superclusters, including a first supercluster having a plurality of first machines and a publish-subscribe (Pub-Sub) channel to which each of the plurality of first machines is subscribed. A second supercluster has a plurality of second machines and a bridge between the first supercluster and the second supercluster. A first machine is configured to receive, via the bridge, an availability status and resource allocation information of each second machine and publish, on the Pub-Sub channel of the first supercluster, the availability status and the resource allocation information.

According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a system, method, and computer program product for recovering from a network failure in a communication network using network function virtualization (NFV-based network), the method including: selecting a first network component of the NFV-based network, detecting at least one probable failure of the first network component, selecting a second network component to be used for replacing the instance of the VNF in the first network component prior to a failure of the first network component, and securing at least one resource of the selected second network component for the other instance of the VNF and maintaining, in the selected second network component, an updated copy of data associated with the instance of the VNF in the first network component.

According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a system, method, and computer program product for recovering from a network failure in a communication network using network function virtualization (NFV-based network), the method including: selecting a first network component of the NFV-based network, detecting at least one probable failure of the first network component, selecting a second network component to be used for replacing the instance of the VNF in the first network component prior to a failure of the first network component, and securing at least one resource of the selected second network component for the other instance of the VNF and maintaining, in the selected second network component, an updated copy of data associated with the instance of the VNF in the first network component.

A fault handling method for a gateway server, including: in response to a first long connection request received from a client, selecting a first master node from a master load balancing cluster, wherein the first master node establishes a long connection between the client and a service server on the basis of the first long connection request and generates session information; and in response to a determination that a fault occurs in the first master node, performing the following operations: selecting a second master node from the master load balancing cluster; and selecting a first slave node from a slave load balancing cluster and controlling the second master node to send the data from the first master node to the first slave node such that the first slave node maintains the long connection between the client and the service server on the basis of the session information.

A fault handling method for a gateway server, including: in response to a first long connection request received from a client, selecting a first master node from a master load balancing cluster, wherein the first master node establishes a long connection between the client and a service server on the basis of the first long connection request and generates session information; and in response to a determination that a fault occurs in the first master node, performing the following operations: selecting a second master node from the master load balancing cluster; and selecting a first slave node from a slave load balancing cluster and controlling the second master node to send the data from the first master node to the first slave node such that the first slave node maintains the long connection between the client and the service server on the basis of the session information.

An apparatus and method for automatic configuration management of a network are provided. The apparatus and method may provide a virtualization system that has an inventory that includes physical resources and virtual assets managed by a virtualization layer running on the physical resources; wherein virtual assets are software instantiations of computer systems, receive a virtual asset provisioning request that specifies parameters to be considered for the virtual asset provisioning request and receive data on inventory available in the virtualization system. The apparatus and method may automatically provision a particular virtual asset to a particular physical resource in the virtualization system that matches the parameters in the virtual asset provisioning request, assign the provisioned virtual asset to the virtual asset provisioning request and provide user access to the provisioned virtual asset.

Some embodiments provide a method for associating data message flows from applications executing on a host computer with network interfaces of the computer. The method of some embodiments identifies a set of applications operating on a machine executing on the host computer, identifies candidate teaming policies for associating each identified application with a subset of one or more interfaces, and generates a report to display the identified candidate teaming policies per application to a user. In response to user input selecting a first teaming policy for a first application, the method generates a rule, and distributes the rule, to the host computer to associate the first application with a first subset of the network interfaces specified by the first teaming policy. Similarly, in response to user input selecting a second teaming policy for a second application executing on the machine, the method generates a second rule, and distributes the second rule, to the host computer to associate the second application with a second subset of the network interfaces specified by the second teaming policy.

In order to allow an access to the Internet, and therefore to a remote server, for a device having no connection with an Internet gateway, there is proposed a method to transmit a message from a first device to a remote server, the first device having no connection with the remote server, said method comprising: detecting a second device by the first device, establishing a communication channel between the first and the second device, transferring the message from the first to the second device, said message comprising an address of the remote server, transferring, by the second device, the message to the remote server using the remote server address contained in the message.