Methods and apparatus to provision a workload in a virtual server rack deployment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016014039-A1
Application number	US-201514796826-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 10, 2015
Priority date	Jul 11, 2014
Publication date	Jan 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to provision a workload in a virtual server rack deployment are disclosed. An example method includes determining, via a first resource manager executing on a processor, parameters of a request for allocating resources of a virtual server rack for performing a workload, determining logical computing resources to be utilized for performing the workload based on the parameters, determining first physical computing resources installed in a first physical rack and second physical computing resources installed in a second physical rack included in the virtual server rack to perform the determined logical computing resources, and instructing a first centralized manager of virtual hosts to provision the first physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method to provision workloads in cloud services implemented in virtual server racks, the method comprising:
determining, via a first resource manager executing on a processor, parameters of a request for allocating resources of a virtual server rack for performing a workload; determining, via the first resource manager executing on the processor, logical computing resources to be utilized for performing the workload based on the parameters; determining, via the first resource manager executing on the processor, first physical computing resources installed in a first physical rack and second physical computing resources installed in a second physical rack included in the virtual server rack to perform the determined logical computing resources; instructing, via the first resource manager executing on the processor, a first centralized manager of virtual hosts to provision the first physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload; and instructing, via the first resource manager executing on the processor, a second resource manager associated with the second physical rack to instruct a second centralized manager of virtual hosts associated with the second physical rack to provision the second physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload.

2 . A method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the first resource manager is a virtual resource manager.

3 . A method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the first resource manager has been elected as a master resource manager to instruct the second resource manager.

4 . A method as defined in claim 1 , further including querying an inventory of physical resources installed in the first physical rack and the second physical rack.

5 . A method as defined in claim 4 , wherein the inventory is stored in a database associated with the first physical rack and the inventory includes the first physical computing resources associated with the first physical rack and the second physical computing resources associated with the second physical rack.

6 . A method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the parameters include at least one of a number of compute availability zones for redundancy of computing resources, a storage fault tolerance, and a network redundancy.

7 . A method as defined in claim 1 , wherein determining the first physical computing resources includes determining a number of processing cores to meet the logical resources.

8 . An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and a processor configured to: determine parameters of a request for allocating resources of a virtual server rack for performing a workload; determine logical computing resources to be utilized for performing the workload based on the parameters; determine first physical computing resources installed in a first physical rack and second physical computing resources installed in a second physical rack included in the virtual server rack to perform the determined logical computing resources; instruct, by a first resource manager, a first centralized manager of virtual hosts to provision the first physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload; and instruct a second resource manager associated with the second physical rack to instruct a second centralized manager of virtual hosts associated with the second physical rack to provision the second physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload.

9 . An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the first resource manager is a virtual resource manager.

10 . An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the first resource manager has been elected as a master resource manager to instruct the second resource manager.

11 . An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to query an inventory of physical resources installed in the first physical rack and the second physical rack.

12 . An apparatus as defined in claim 11 , wherein the inventory is stored in a database associated with the first physical rack and the inventory includes the first physical computing resources associated with the first physical rack and the second physical computing resources associated with the second physical rack.

13 . An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the parameters include at least one of a number of compute availability zones for redundancy of computing resources, a storage fault tolerance, and a network redundancy.

14 . An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the processor is configured to determine the first physical computing resources by determining a number of processing cores to meet the logical resources.

15 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:
determine parameters of a request for allocating resources of a virtual server rack for performing a workload; determine logical computing resources to be utilized for performing the workload based on the parameters; determine first physical computing resources installed in a first physical rack and second physical computing resources installed in a second physical rack included in the virtual server rack to perform the determined logical computing resources; instruct, by a first resource manager, a first centralized manager of virtual hosts to provision the first physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload; and instruct a second resource manager associated with the second physical rack to instruct a second centralized manager of virtual hosts associated with the second physical rack to provision the second physical computing resources into the logical computing resources to allocate the logical computing resources for performing the workload.

16 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium as defined in claim 16 , wherein the first resource manager is a virtual resource manager.

17 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium as defined in claim 16 , wherein the first resource manager has been elected as a master resource manager to instruct the second resource manager.

18 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium as defined in claim 16 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the machine to query an inventory of physical resources installed in the first physical rack and the second physical rack.

19 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium as defined in claim 18 , wherein the inventory is stored in a database associated with the first physical rack and the inventory includes the first physical computing resources associated with the first physical rack and the second physical computing resources associated with the second physical rack.

20 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium as defined in claim 16 , wherein the parameters include at least one of a number of compute availability zones for redundancy of computing resources, a storage fault tolerance, and a network redundancy.

21 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium as defined in claim 16 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the machine to determine the first physical computing resources by determi

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Reddy Thirumalesh
• Yavatkar Raj
• Indireddy Sreekantha
• Ankala Shreekanth

Classifications

• H04L47/70 Primary

  Admission control; Resource allocation · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L43/20

  the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV · CPC title

• H04L41/0897

  by horizontal or vertical scaling of resources, or by migrating entities, e.g. virtual resources or entities · CPC title

• H04L41/0895

  Configuration of virtualised networks or elements, e.g. virtualised network function or OpenFlow elements · CPC title