Resource management for virtual machines in cloud computing systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10296367-B2
Application number	US-201715424305-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2017
Priority date	Feb 3, 2017
Publication date	May 21, 2019
Grant date	May 21, 2019

Abstract

A system receives a request to deploy a virtual machine on a node from a plurality of nodes running a plurality of virtual machines in a cloud computing system. The system selects one of the plurality of nodes having a hard disk drive (HDD) input output operations per second (IOPS) value less than an observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes running the plurality of virtual machines. The system receives a predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine and determines a new HDD IOPS value for the selected node based on the HDD IOPS value for the selected node and the predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine. The system instantiates the virtual machine on the selected node when the new HDD IOPS value for the selected node is less than or equal to the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a processor and memory; and
machine readable instructions stored in the memory, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to:
receive a request to deploy a virtual machine on a node from a plurality of nodes running a plurality of virtual machines in a cloud computing system;
select one of the plurality of nodes having a hard disk drive (HDD) input output operations per second (IOPS) value less than an observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes running the plurality of virtual machines, the observed HDD IOPS value including a maximum HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes;
receive a predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine;
determine a new HDD IOPS value for the selected node based on the HDD IOPS value for the selected node and the predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine, the predicted HDD IOPS value including a maximum predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine; and
instantiate the virtual machine on the selected node when the new HDD IOPS value for the selected node is less than or equal to the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to:
collect data regarding HDD IOPS performed by the plurality of nodes when running the plurality of virtual machines; and
generate the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes based on the collected data.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to:
collect data regarding HDD IOPS performed by the plurality of nodes when running the plurality of virtual machines; and
generate the predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine based on the collected data.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein:
the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes includes an average HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes; and
the predicted HDD lops value for the virtual machine includes an average predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to update the HDD IOPS value for the selected node and the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes when the virtual machine is instantiated on the selected node.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to update the HDD IOPS value for the selected node and the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes when the virtual machine terminates on the selected node.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to update the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes when one of the plurality of virtual machines terminates on the plurality of nodes.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to dynamically track average or maximum HDD IOPS value for each of the plurality of nodes.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further configure the processor to not track average or maximum HDD IOPS value for each of the plurality of virtual machines.

10. A method comprising:
receiving a request to deploy a virtual machine on a node from a plurality of nodes running a plurality of virtual machines in a cloud computing system;
collecting data regarding hard disk drive (HDD) input output operations per second (IOPS) performed by the plurality of nodes when running the plurality of virtual machines;
selecting one of the plurality of nodes having a hard disk drive (HDD) input output operations per second (IOPS) value less than an observed HDD lops value for the plurality of nodes running the plurality of virtual machines, the observed HDD IOPS value being generated based on the collected data, and the observed HDD IOPS value including a maximum HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes;
receiving a predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine, the predicted HDD IOPS value being generated based on the collected data, and the predicted HDD IOPS value including a maximum predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine;
determining a new HDD IOPS value for the selected node based on the HDD lops value for the selected node and the predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine; and
instantiating the virtual machine on the selected node when the new HDD IOPS value for the selected node is less than or equal to the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein:
the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes includes an average HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes; and
the predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine includes an average predicted HDD IOPS value for the virtual machine.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising updating the HDD IOPS value for the selected node and the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes when the virtual machine is instantiated on the selected node.

13. The method of claim 10 further comprising updating the HDD IOPS value for the selected node and the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes when the virtual machine terminates on the selected node.

14. The method of claim 10 further comprising updating the observed HDD IOPS value for the plurality of nodes when one of the plurality of virtual machines terminates on the plurality of nodes.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising dynamically tracking average or maximum HDD IOPS value for each of the plurality of nodes.

16. The method of claim 10 further comprising not tracking average or maximum HDD IOPS value for each of the plurality of virtual machines.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Bianchini Ricardo
• Cortez Eli
• Fontoura Marcus Felipe
• Bonde Anand

Classifications

• G06F2009/4557

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

• G06F9/5005

  to service a request · CPC title

• G06F9/4843

  by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system · CPC title

• G06F2009/45583

  Memory management, e.g. access or allocation · CPC title

• G06F9/5044

  considering hardware capabilities · CPC title