System and method for managing resource allocations in composed systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11928515-B2
Application number	US-202017116777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2020
Priority date	Dec 9, 2020
Publication date	Mar 12, 2024
Grant date	Mar 12, 2024

Abstract

A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes persistent storage and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates composed information handling systems using the information handling systems; monitors, using system control processors of the composed information handling systems, operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information; makes a determination, based on the operation information, that the computing implemented services provided by the composed information handling systems are substandard; and in response to the determination: manages operation of the composed information handling systems to provide standards compliant computer implemented services by modifying a composition of at least one of the composed information handling systems using a system control processor of the system control processors.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems, comprising:
persistent storage; and
a system control processor manager programmed to:
instantiate composed information handling systems using the information handling systems;
monitor, using system control processors of the composed information handling systems, operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information;
make a determination, based on the operation information, that the computing implemented services provided by the composed information handling systems are substandard; and
in response to the determination:
manage operation of the composed information handling systems to provide standards compliant computer implemented services by:
determining a first resource cost for adding computing resources to at least one of the composed information handling systems;
determining a second resource cost for instantiating a new composed information handling system by:
 computing a computational cost for transferring a workload associated with a workload performance to a new composed information handling system;
 calculating an aggregate computing resource cost of performing the workload on the new composed information handling system and the computational cost; and
 comparing requirements of a service level agreement to a time estimate based on the aggregate computing resource cost; and
modifying, based on a comparison of the first resource cost and the second resource cost, a composition of at least one of the composed information handling systems using a system control processor of the system control processors.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the composed information handling system comprises a compute resource set, a hardware resource set, and a control resource set comprising the system control processor.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the control resource set presents abstracted computing resources of the hardware resource set as bare metal resources to the compute resource set.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein managing the operation of the composed information handling systems comprises:
monitoring the workload performance of the at least one of the composed information handling systems;
making a second determination that the workload performance will not meet the requirements of the service level agreement;
in response to the second determination:
making a third determination that recomposing the at least one of the composed information handling systems will cause the workload performance to meet the requirements of the service level agreement; and
wherein modifying comprises recomposing the composed information handling system based on the third determination.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein recomposing the composed information handling system comprises:
making a fourth determination that the first resource cost is less than the second resource cost; and
adding, based on the fourth determination, computing resources to one of the at least one of the composed information handling systems.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein recomposing the composed information handling system comprises:
making a fourth determination that the second resource cost is less than the first resource cost”
instantiating, based on the fourth determination, the new composed information handling system; and
transferring, based on the fourth determination, a workload associated with the workload performance from one of the at least one composed information handling systems to the new composed information handling system.

7. The system of claim 4 , wherein managing the operation of the composed information handling systems further comprises:
maintaining a listing of free computing resources that may be allocated to form composed information handling systems that are duplicative of the at least one composed information handling systems.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein managing the operation of the composed information handling systems comprises:
monitoring load states of the composed information handling systems;
making a second determination, based on the load states, that at least one of the composed information handling systems is in an over-loaded state;
making a third determination that the second resource cost is less than the first resource cost;
in response to the second determination and the third determination:
instantiating the new composed information handling system;
adding the new composed information handling system to a deployment comprising the composed information handling systems; and
transferring a workload from the at least one of the composed information handling systems to the new composed information handling system.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the deployment is a virtualized environment where each of the composed information handling systems host at least one virtual machine.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein transferring the workload comprises:
suspending execution of the at least one virtual machine hosted by the at least one of the composed information handling systems;
loading an image of the at least one virtual machine on the new composed information handling system; and
initiating execution of a new virtual machine based on the image.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein monitoring the operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information comprises:
obtaining, using the system control processors, messages including information specifying the operation of the composed information handling systems.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein no control plane entities hosted by the composed information handling system are aware of the messages.

13. A method for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems, comprising:
instantiating composed information handling systems using the information handling systems;
monitoring, using system control processors of the composed information handling systems, operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information;
making a determination, based on the operation information, that the computing implemented services provided by the composed information handling systems are substandard; and
in response to the determination:
managing operation of the composed information handling systems to provide standards compliant computer implemented services by;
determining a first resource cost for adding computing resources to at least one of the composed information handling systems;
determining a second resource cost for instantiating a new composed information handling system by:
computing a computational cost for transferring a workload associated with a workload performance to a new composed information handling system;
calculating an aggregate computing resource cost of performing the workload on the new composed information handling system and the computational cost; and
comparing requirements of a service level agreement to a time estimate based on the aggregate computing resource cost; and

modifying, based on a comparison of the first resource cost and the second resource cost, a composition of at least one of the composed information handling systems using a system control processor of the system control processors.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the at least one composed information handling system comprises a compute resource set, a hardware resource set, and a control resource set comprising the system control processor.

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Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Dawkins William Price
• Sanders Mark Steven
• Pike Jimmy Doyle
• Jreij Elie Antoun
• Hormuth Robert Wayne
• O'Brien Iii Walter A
• Khatri Mukund P
• Chawla Gaurav
• Saad Yossef

Classifications

• G06F9/505 Primary

  considering the load · CPC title

• G06F11/3024

  where the computing system component is a central processing unit [CPU] · CPC title

• G06F11/3495

  for systems · CPC title

• G06F9/5083 Primary

  Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system · CPC title

• G06F9/5077

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title