Workload Manager and Storage Migration

2018

Migrate Workload across Storage Blocks

ROLE

UX Designer

TIMELINE

3 months

Storage vMotion

Cloudistics storage vMotion feature empowers users to seamlessly migrate applications and snapshots from one virtual storage block to another. This capability proves particularly valuable for tasks like system retirement and maintenance, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition of data without disruptions.

THE PROBLEM

Data Duplication and Backup

Data migration can feel daunting, even though it’s a standard procedure that most organizations go through at some point. Careful planning and preparation will help to remove most of the potential pitfalls and, in most cases, allow a business to transition to a more effective and resilient way of working.

At Cloudistcs, we need to provide our users a way to migrate their data between storage blocks.

THE GOAL

Migrate Data between Storage Blocks

According to the product brief, I created this concept diagram to visualize the two main workflows for storage vMotion.

Users

INFRASTRUCTURE ADMIN

  1. Associated with organization(s).
  2. Has stack(s).
  3. Can download templates and publish any template from an org.
THE DESIGN

Workload Manager

Key Features:

  • Dashboard of storage blocks in the data center
  • Manage/remove storage blocks
  • Filter and manage workload instances stored in a storage block
  • Move instances across storage blocks

Flow 1 – Workload Manager Storage Migration

Flow 2 – Remove Storage Block

Storage migration – error state
Retry storage migration
Discard storage migration