Determining placement fitness for partitions under a hypervisor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9250947-B2
Application number	US-201514799161-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2015
Priority date	Jun 21, 2012
Publication date	Feb 2, 2016
Grant date	Feb 2, 2016

Abstract

A technique for determining placement fitness for partitions under a hypervisor in a host computing system having non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes. In an embodiment, a partition resource specification is received from a partition score requester. The partition resource specification identifies a set of computing resources needed for a virtual machine partition to be created by a hypervisor in the host computing system. Resource availability within the NUMA nodes of the host computing system is assessed to determine possible partition placement options. A partition fitness score of a most suitable one of the partition placement options is calculated. The partition fitness score is reported to the partition score requester.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for determining NUMA node placement fitness for virtual machine partitions that can be provisioned on said NUMA nodes with each virtual machine partition occupying one or more of said NUMA nodes, said virtual machine partitions being managed under a hypervisor in a host computing system having non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes, and each comprising a set of computing resources that include processor, memory and I/O resources, comprising:
receiving from a partition score requester a partition resource specification identifying a set of computing resources, including processor, memory and I/O resources, needed for a virtual machine partition to be created by a hypervisor in said host computing system, said partition score requester being a resource manager agent that provisions virtual resources in response to resource requests from customer devices;
assessing resource availability within the NUMA nodes of said host computing system to determine possible partition placement options representing one or more NUMA nodes where said virtual machine partition with said needed computing resources could be provisioned;
calculating a partition fitness score of a most suitable one or more NUMA nodes representing one of said partition placement options;
said partition fitness score reflecting an ability of said hypervisor to provision said computing resources within a single one of said NUMA nodes; and
reporting said partition fitness score to said partition score requester.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said partition fitness score comprises predetermined categories.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said partition fitness score comprises a numeric gradation value that is weighted to favor different resource characteristics.

4. The method of claim 1 , further including receiving a reservation request based on said partition fitness score and reserving said computing resources for use in fulfilling a partition provisioning request.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said partition fitness score reflects an ability of said hypervisor to provision said computing resources within an assigned resource pool in said host computing system representing a managed subset of host resources specified by said score requester.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said partition fitness score reflects an ability of said hypervisor to provision computing resources for a set of partitions that run components of a common workload.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Anand Vaijayanthimala K
• Mankowski Richard
• Olszewski Bret R
• Reyes Sergio

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F2009/4557

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

• G06F2009/45583

  Memory management, e.g. access or allocation · 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

• G06F9/45533

  Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors · CPC title