Managing a set of assets of a shared pool of configurable computing resources

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9582333-B2
Application number	US-201514745654-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2015
Priority date	Jun 22, 2015
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed aspects manage a set of assets of a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A set of usage data is established by the shared pool of configurable computing resources. The set of usage data corresponds to usage of the set of assets by a set of users. The shared pool of configurable computing resources determines an asset load-order based on the set of usage data. An operation associated with the set of assets is performed by the shared pool of configurable computing resources. In response to performing the operation associated with the set of assets, the set of assets is loaded based on the asset load-order by the shared pool of configurable computing resources.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for managing a set of assets of a shared pool of configurable computing resources, the method comprising:
establishing, by the shared pool of configurable computing resources, a set of usage data which corresponds to usage of the set of assets by a set of users;
identifying a status of the set of users determining, by the shared pool of configurable computing resources, an asset load-order using the status of the set of users and the set of usage data;
performing, by the shared pool of configurable computing resources, an operation associated with the set of assets, wherein the operation includes a deploy operation including:
utilizing an immediacy factor to determine the asset load-order, and
initiating deployment of a virtual machine that including in the set of assets; and
loading, by the shared pool of configurable computing resources in response to performing the operation associated with the set of assets, the set of assets based on the asset load-order.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of assets includes the virtual machine.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of assets includes a plurality of virtual machines which cooperate to provide a computing capability.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation includes a capture operation, the capture operation including:
capturing both a first state of a first asset of the set of assets and a second state of a second asset of the set of assets;
executing a first process on the first asset;
suspending a second process on the second asset, wherein the second process is dependent on the first process; and
executing, in response to the first process achieving an execution threshold, the second process.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation includes:
creating the virtual machine.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation includes a migration operation, the migration operation including:
detecting a triggering event associated with the set of assets;
copying, from a first location to a second location, a particular asset of the set of assets; and
removing, from the first location, the particular asset of the set of assets.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation includes a resize operation which changes a capacity of the virtual machine.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation includes a recovery operation, the recovery operation including:
generating a backup version of a particular asset of the set of assets; and
launching, in response to a triggering event associated with the set of assets, the backup version of the particular asset.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
collecting a set of profile information, wherein the set of profile information is selected from a group consisting of at least one of: an application log, a user history, usage of a virtual machine, an application dependency relationship, or a system dependency relationship; and
analyzing, to determine the asset load-order, the set of profile information.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, using the status of the set of users, the asset load-order includes predicting a status change with respect to one or more users of the set of users.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, using a machine learning technique, a user-pattern which is based on the set of usage data and configured to predict future asset allocation; and
determining, based on the user-pattern, the asset load-order.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the asset load-order has a dependency relationship factor, a temporal period factor, and a user-indicated factor.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein loading the set of assets based on the asset load-order includes:
loading a proxy asset which loads a specific asset in response to a request for the specific asset.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the asset load-order based on the set of usage data includes:
determining an asset demand score for the set of assets;
determining an asset value weight for the set of assets; and
determining, based on both the asset demand score and the asset value weight, the asset load-order.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
metering use of the asset load-order; and
generating an invoice based on the metered use.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein loading the set of assets based on the asset load-order includes:
waiting for completion of a previously-scheduled load of a specific asset.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the immediacy factor relates to sorting assets based on an exigency of loading.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the immediacy factor relates to a request which is urgent.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Cao Bin
• Carey James E
• Manning Bradley L

Classifications

• G06F9/45533 Primary

  Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors · 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

• G06F9/5061 Primary

  Partitioning or combining of resources · CPC title

• G06F2009/45575

  Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F9/5083

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