Predictively provisioning cloud computing resources for virtual machines

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10365944-B2
Application number	US-201816057885-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2018
Priority date	Sep 11, 2015
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: predictively provisioning, by one or more processor, cloud computing resources of a cloud computing environment for at least one virtual machine; and initializing, by the one or more processor, the at least one virtual machine with the provisioned cloud computing resources of the cloud computing environment. In one embodiment, the predictively provisioning may include: receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment, the multiple virtual machines having similar characteristics to the at least one virtual machine; and determining the cloud computing resources for the at least one virtual machine using the historical utilization information of the multiple virtual machines. In another embodiment, the predictively may include updating a provisioning database with the historical utilization information of the multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
predictively provisioning, by one or more processor, cloud computing resources of a cloud computing environment for at least one virtual machine, wherein the predictively provisioning includes receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment, the multiple virtual machines having similar characteristics to the at least one virtual machine, and determining the cloud computing resources for the at least one virtual machine using the historical utilization information of the multiple virtual machines;
triggering, by the one or more processor, initializing the at least one virtual machine with the provisioned cloud computing resources of the cloud computing environment; and
wherein the predictively provisioning cloud computing resources of a cloud computing environment for at least one virtual machine includes predictively provisioning a certain virtual machine running a certain program, wherein the determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine includes, prior to receiving a provisioning request to provision the certain virtual machine, determining and storing trend information based on first information for use in provisioning the certain virtual machine, wherein determining the trend information based on the first information includes using the historical utilization information of an historical virtual machine of a type running the certain program, wherein the historical virtual machine is no longer operating in the environment, wherein the method includes receiving the provisioning request to provision the certain virtual machine, and wherein the method includes responding to the provisioning request to provision the certain virtual machine using the trend information determined prior to the receiving the provisioning request.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cloud computing environment comprises multiple hypervisors, the predictively provisioning comprises selecting the cloud computing resources associated with a certain hypervisor of the multiple hypervisors, and the triggering initializing comprises sending an initialization request to the certain hypervisor.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment includes receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines running the certain program, wherein the determining the cloud computing resources for the at least one virtual machine includes determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine, wherein the triggering initializing the at least one virtual machine includes triggering initializing the certain virtual machine with the provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine, and wherein the triggering initializing the at least one virtual machine includes transmitting a message to a hosting computing requesting that the hosting computing node perform initializing of the certain virtual machine to launch the certain virtual machine.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment includes receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines running the certain program, wherein the determining the cloud computing resources for the at least one virtual machine includes determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine, wherein the triggering initializing the at least one virtual machine includes triggering initializing the certain virtual machine with the provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine, wherein the determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine includes determining predicted resource needs of the certain virtual machine based on a growth rate of the certain virtual machine determined using a historical growth rate of the multiple virtual machines miming the certain program and wherein the determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine includes matching the predicted resource needs to a hosting region of the cloud computing environment having current available capacity according to the predicted resource needs.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment includes receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines running the certain program, wherein the determining the cloud computing resources for the at least one virtual machine includes determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine, wherein the triggering initializing the at least one virtual machine includes triggering initializing the certain virtual machine with the provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine, wherein the determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine includes determining predicted disk utilization resource needs of the certain virtual machine based on a growth rate of the certain virtual machine determined using a historical disk utilization growth rate of the multiple virtual machines running the certain program, wherein the triggering initializing the at least one virtual machine includes transmitting a message to a hosting computing requesting that the hosting computing node perform initializing of the certain virtual machine to launch the certain virtual machine, wherein the receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment includes receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the type of the certain virtual machine running the certain program and receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines that are of types other than the certain virtual machine, wherein the method includes storing into a provisioning database first information including historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the type of the certain virtual machine running the certain program and storing into a provisioning database second information including historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines that are of types other than a type of the certain virtual machine, wherein the provisioning database includes historical utilization information of a virtual machine of the certain type and running the certain program that is no longer operating in the environment, wherein the determining provisioning resources for the certain virtual machine includes, prior to receiving a provisioning request to provision the certain virtual machine, determining and storing trend information based on the first information for use in provisioning the certain virtual machine, wherein determining the trend information based on the first information includes using the historical utilization information of the virtual machine of the certain type running the certain program that is no longer operating in the environment, wherein the method includes receiving the provisioning request to provision the certain virtual machine, and wherein the method includes responding to the provisioning request to provision the certain virtual machine using the trend information determined prior to the receiving the provisioning request.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predictively provisioning comprises:
receiving a provisioning request, the provisioning request comprising at least processor, memory, storage, or tenant requirements of the at least one virtual machine; and
comparing the processor, memory, storage, or tenant requirements of the at least one virtual machine with available resources of the cloud computing environment to provision the cloud computing

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Feng zhong qi
• Li Jiang Tao
• Wang Yi Bin
• Yu Chao
• Zhang qing feng

Classifications

• G06F9/5072

  Grid computing · CPC title

• G06F9/505

  considering the load · CPC title

• G06F9/5027

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

• G06F9/50

  Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU] · CPC title

• G06F9/5061

  Partitioning or combining of resources · CPC title