Hot-plugging of virtual functions in a virtualized environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11061712-B2
Application number	US-201916579519-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2019
Priority date	Aug 17, 2016
Publication date	Jul 13, 2021
Grant date	Jul 13, 2021

Abstract

Implementations of the disclosure provide for hot-plugging of virtual functions in a virtualized environment. In one implementation, a computer system determines that virtual functions associated with a logical network for a virtual machine hosted on a first host system are unavailable on the first host system, identifies a logical network device on a second host system that is communicably accessible from the first host system, and determines that the logical network device on the second host system has a number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network. The computer system then migrates the virtual machine from the first host computer system to the second host computer system to allow the virtual machine to access the number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network on the second host system and associates a virtual device of the virtual machine with the number of available virtual functions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer system, comprising:
a memory; and
a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to:
communicate with a first hypervisor on a first host system to determine that virtual functions associated with a logical network for a virtual machine hosted on the first host system are unavailable on a logical network device of the first host system, wherein the logical network device of the first host system has reached a threshold number of virtual functions able to be associated with the logical network device; and
responsive to determining that the virtual functions are unavailable on the first host system and that no additional virtual functions can be created on the logical network device of the first host system based on the threshold number of virtual functions:
identify a logical network device on a second host system of a plurality of host systems that is communicably accessible to the first hypervisor from the first host system;
determine that the logical network device on the second host system has a number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network and meets running requirements to execute the virtual machine;
migrate the virtual machine from the first host computer system to the second host system of the plurality of host systems to allow the virtual machine to access the number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network on the second host system; and
associate a virtual device of the virtual machine with the number of available virtual functions.

2. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein to identify the logical network device, the processing device is further to:
identify a hypervisor associated with the logical network that is capable of supporting the virtual functions; and
determine availability of at least one virtual function associated with the identified hypervisor.

3. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further to:
notify a client application of availability of the virtual device associated with the virtual machine.

4. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further to:
couple the virtual device of the virtual machine to a virtual bridge;
identify an available virtual function associated with a second logical network device on the logical network; and
couple the virtual bridge to the second logical network device.

5. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further to:
associate the virtual device with the number of available virtual functions without stopping the virtual machine.

6. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein to migrate the virtual machine from the first host computer system to the second host computer system, the processing device is further to:
copy at least a portion of an execution state of the virtual machine while the virtual machine is still running on the first host computer system;
stop the virtual machine on the first host computer system; and
restart the virtual machine on the second host computer system using the portion of the execution state.

7. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further to:
scan the logical network to discover the second host system having the number of available virtual functions.

8. A method comprising:
communicating with a first hypervisor on a first host system to determine that virtual functions associated with a logical network for a virtual machine hosted on the first host system are unavailable on a logical network device of the first host system, wherein the logical network device of the first host system has reached a threshold number of virtual functions able to be associated with the logical network device; and
responsive to determining that the virtual functions are unavailable on the first host system and that no additional virtual functions can be created on the logical network device of the first host system based on the threshold number of virtual functions:
identifying a logical network device on a second host system of a plurality of host systems that is communicably accessible to the first hypervisor from the first host system;
determining that the logical network device on the second host system has a number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network and meets running requirements to execute the virtual machine;
migrating the virtual machine from the first host computer system to the second host system of the plurality of host systems to allow the virtual machine to access the number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network on the second host system; and
associating a virtual device of the virtual machine with the number of available virtual functions.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein identifying the logical network device comprises:
identifying a hypervisor associated with the logical network that is capable of supporting the virtual functions; and
determining availability of at least one virtual function associated with the identified hypervisor.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
notifying a client application of availability of the virtual device associated with the virtual machine.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
coupling the virtual device of the virtual machine to a virtual bridge;
identifying an available virtual function associated with a second logical network device on the logical network; and
coupling the virtual bridge to the second logical network device.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
associating the virtual device with the number of available virtual functions without stopping the virtual machine.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein migrating the virtual machine from the first host computer system to the second host computer system comprises:
copying at least a portion of an execution state of the virtual machine while the virtual machine is still running on the first host computer system;
stopping the virtual machine on the first host computer system; and
restarting the virtual machine on the second host computer system using the portion of the execution state.

14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
scanning the logical network to discover the second host system having the number of available virtual functions.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processing device of a management system, cause the processing device to:
communicate with a first hypervisor on a first host system to determine that virtual functions associated with a logical network for a virtual machine hosted on the first host system are unavailable on a logical network device of the first host system, wherein the logical network device of the first host system has reached a threshold number of virtual functions able to be associated with the logical network device; and
responsive to determining that the virtual functions are unavailable on the first host system and that no additional virtual functions can be created on the logical network device of the first host system based on the threshold number of virtual functions:
identify a logical network device on a second host system of a plurality of host systems that is communicably accessible to the first hypervisor from the first host system;
determine that the logical network device on the second host system has a number of available virtual functions associated with the logical network and meets running requirements to execute the virtual machine;
migrate the vi

Assignees

• Red Hat Israel Ltd

Inventors

• Kaplan Alona
• Kolesnik Michael

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F2009/4557

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