Handling migration in a virtualization environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10176061-B2
Application number	US-201615351384-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2016
Priority date	Nov 14, 2016
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system for migrating virtual machines in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing the virtualization environment and a migration controller. Each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, one or more user virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller. The system further implements a virtual disk comprising a plurality of storage devices, the virtual disk being accessible by the virtual machine controllers, which conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disk. The migration controller determines a segment size and, for each host machine, determines a number of required segments for the UVMs running on the host machine. The controller computes a number of reserved segments based on a total number of host machines and a largest one of the numbers of required segments. The reserved segments are then assigned among the plurality of host machines.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for migrating virtual machines in a virtualization environment, the system comprising:
a plurality of host machines implementing the virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines comprises a hypervisor, one or more virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller;
a virtual disk comprising a plurality of storage devices, the virtual disk being accessible by the virtual machine controllers, wherein the virtual machine controllers conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disk; and
a migration controller configured to:
determine a segment size of a computing resource;
for each host machine, determine a number of reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on the host machine; and
compute a total number of reserved segments based on:
a total number of host machines, and
a maximum number of the reserved segments required for the one or more UVMS; and

assign the total number of reserved segments among the plurality of host machines.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the migration controller is further configured to:
upon detecting a failure of a first host machine of the plurality of host machines, migrate at least one of the one or more UVMs on the first host machine to a second host machine,
wherein the second host machine has enough of the reserved segments to host the at least one of the one or more UVMs.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing resource comprises a capability of processing power and memory.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the total number of reserved segments is computed using the formula:

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X i =the number of reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on each of the plurality of host machines i, for i=1 . . . n.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the assigning of the total number of reserved segments among the plurality of host machines is based on the number of reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on each of the plurality of host machines.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the total number of reserved segments is computed using the formula:

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n=the total number of host machines
X j =the number of reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on each of the plurality of host machines j, for j=1 . . . n.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the migration controller is further configured to provide information regarding the total number of reserved segments and the reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs for presentation to a user in a user interface.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the user interface allows the user to power off at least one of the one or more UVMs or remove a failover protection of at least one of a failover-protected UVMs.

9. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment, the media comprising instructions operable when executed to:
implement the virtualization environment in a plurality of host machines, wherein each of the host machines comprises a hypervisor, one or more user virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller;
implement a virtual disk comprising a plurality of storage devices, the virtual disk being accessible by the virtual machine controllers, wherein the virtual machine controllers conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disk;
determine a segment size of a computing resource;
for each host machine, determine a number of reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on the host machine;
compute a total number of reserved segments based on:
a total number of host machines, and
a maximum number of the reserved segments required for the one or more UVMS; and

assign the total number of reserved segments among the plurality of host machines.

10. The media of claim 9 , wherein the software is further operable when executed to:
upon detecting a failure of a first host machine of the plurality of host machines, migrate at least one of the one or more UVMs on the first host machine to a second host machine,
wherein the second host machine has enough of the reserved segments to host the at least one of the one or more UVMs.

11. The media of claim 9 , wherein the computing resource comprises a capability of processing power and memory.

12. The media of claim 9 , wherein the reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs comprise a number of segments that are required to host one or more failover-protected UVMs of the one or more UVMs.

13. The media of claim 9 , wherein the total number of reserved segments is computed using the formula:

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n

n
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where,
S=the number of reserved segments
n=the total number of host machines
X i =the number of reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on each of the plurality of host machines i, for i=1 . . . n.

14. The media of claim 12 , wherein the reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on each of the plurality of host machines is determined by computing an upper bound corresponding to a UVM size that causes a maximum fragmentation of the reserved segments.

15. The media of claim 9 , wherein the assigning of the total number of reserved segments among the plurality of host machines is based on the reserved segments required for the one or more UVMs running on each of the plurality of host machines.

16. The media of claim 9 , wherein the total number of reserved segments is computed using the fo

Assignees

• Nutanix Inc

Inventors

• Grobman Igor
• Wang Hexin
• Smith Gregory A

Classifications

• G06F9/45558

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F2201/82

  Solving problems relating to consistency · CPC title

• G06F2009/4557

  Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing · CPC title

• G06F2201/815

  Virtual · CPC title

• G06F2201/805

  Real-time · CPC title