Dynamic shared server resource allocation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10284636-B2
Application number	US-201615270063-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2016
Priority date	Sep 20, 2016
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

A system, method and program product for controlling allocation of user assignments to server systems managed by a shared resource manager of a service provider. User request parameters are received from a first user for identifying a desired server resource. User assignment alternatives are calculated based on migration of user assignments of a second user to make the desired server resource available to the first user. User migration parameters are received from the second user that identify conditions for migrating the current user assignment of the second user from a first server to a second server in accordance with the user assignment alternatives. A new configuration of user assignments of the first and second user are calculated and communicated to the shared resource manager based on the first and second user accepting a user assignment alternative. The server systems are reconfigured in accordance with the new configuration of user assignments.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a plurality of server systems interconnected by a network and managed by a shared resource manager of a service provider; and
a resource allocation system controlling allocation of user assignments to the plurality of server systems over the network, the resource allocation system comprising:
a resource request interface receiving user request parameters from a first user for identifying a desired server resource; an option calculator that calculates a plurality of user assignment alternatives based on migration of user assignments of at least a second user to make the desired server resource available to the first user;
a migration request interface receiving user migration parameters from at least the second user that identify conditions for migrating a current user assignment of at least the second user from a first server of the plurality of server systems to a second server of the plurality of server systems in accordance with at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives generated by the option calculator;
a downtime calculator that calculates a predicted downtime for each of the plurality of user assignment alternatives; and
a user downtime cost calculator that calculates a predicted business cost for at least the second user based on the predicted downtime and a transaction value per time factor for the second user,

wherein the resource allocation system calculates and communicates to the shared resource manager a new configuration of user assignments of the first user and the second user for the plurality of server systems based on the first user and the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives,
wherein the shared resource manager reconfigures the plurality of server systems in accordance with the new configuration of user assignments, and
wherein the migration request interface provides the predicted downtime and the predicted business cost for at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives to at least the second user prior to the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a restriction analyzer used by the option calculator to eliminate at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives based on at least one restriction input received from at least a third user that is incompatible with the desired server resource.

3. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a placement cost calculator that calculates a first user cost and a second user cost for at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives based on service provider pricing data for the first user and the second user, wherein the first user cost is provided to the first user and the second user cost is provided to the second user prior to the first user and the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives.

4. The system of claim 3 , further comprising a user negotiation module that enables the first user to specify a premium amount through the resource request interface that the first user will pay for the desired server resource, whereby the user negotiation module generates a discount amount that will reduce the second user cost and provides the reduced second user cost to the second user prior to the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user request parameters from the first user for identifying the desired server resource specify at least one of server location, co-location with at least one pre-existing server resource, or non-location with at least one pre-existing server resource.

6. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, which when executed by a computing system, provides a resource allocation system controlling allocation of user assignments to a plurality of server systems managed by a shared resource manager of a service provider, the program product comprising:
program code that generates a resource request interface receiving user request parameters from a first user for identifying a desired server resource;
program code that generates an option calculator that calculates a plurality of user assignment alternatives based on migration of user assignments of at least a second user to make the desired server resource available to the first user;
program code that generates a migration request interface receiving user migration parameters from at least the second user that identify conditions for migrating a current user assignment of at least the second user from a first server of the plurality of server systems to a second server of the plurality of server systems in accordance with at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives generated by the option calculator;
program code that calculates and communicates to the shared resource manager a new configuration of user assignments of the first user and the second user for the plurality of server systems based on the first user and the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives;
program code that reconfigures the plurality of server systems in accordance with the new configuration of user assignments; program code that generates a downtime calculator that calculates a predicted downtime for each of the plurality of user assignment alternatives; and
program code that generates a user downtime cost calculator that calculates a predicted business cost for at least the second user based on the predicted downtime and a transaction value per time factor for the second user,
wherein the migration request interface provides the predicted downtime and the predicted business cost for at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives to at least the second user prior to the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives.

7. The program product of claim 6 , further comprising program code that generates a restriction analyzer used by the option calculator to eliminate at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives based on at least one restriction input received from at least a third user that is incompatible with the desired server resource.

8. The program product of claim 6 , further comprising program code that generates a placement cost calculator that calculates a first user cost and a second user cost for at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives based on service provider pricing data for the first user and the second user, wherein the first user cost is provided to the first user and the second user cost is provided to the second user prior to the first user and the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives.

9. The program product of claim 8 , further comprising program code that generates a user negotiation module that enables the first user to specify a premium amount through the resource request interface that the first user will pay for the desired server resource, whereby the user negotiation module option generates a discount amount that will reduce the second user cost and provides the reduced second user cost to the second user prior to the second user accepting at least one of the plurality of user assignment alternatives.

10. The program product of claim 6 , wherein the user request parameters from the first user for identifying the desired server resource specify at least one of server location, co-location with at least one pre-existing server resource, or non-location with at least one pre-existing server re

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Stelmar Netto Marco Aurelio
• Varga Sergio

Classifications

• H04L12/1453

  Methods or systems for payment or settlement of the charges for data transmission involving significant interaction with the data transmission network · CPC title

• H04M15/8044

  Least cost routing · CPC title

• G06F11/34

  Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation {; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment} · CPC title

• G06F9/4856

  resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration (G06F9/5088 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F9/5027

  the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals · CPC title