Cloud computing system and method for managing storage resources therein

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9635097-B2
Application number	US-201414307560-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2014
Priority date	Dec 29, 2011
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

A cloud computing system and a method therein. The cloud computing system includes: a resource server cluster, where the resource server cluster includes at least two resource servers, each resource server in the resource server cluster has at least one type of resources of computing resources and storage resources, and at least one resource server in the resource server cluster has computing resources and storage resources; a computing resource management module configured to manage the computing resources in the resource server cluster, so as to provide a virtual computing service; and a storage resource management module configured to manage a shared storage resource pool established using the storage resources in the resource server cluster, so as to provide a virtual storage service, where storage resources included in each storage resource pool are from at least two resource servers in the resource server cluster.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cloud computing system, comprising:
at least two servers configured to provide resources for a virtual machine in the cloud computing system, wherein the resources of the at least two servers comprise computing resources and storage resources, and wherein at least one server provides both the computing resources and the storage resources; and
at least one processor configured to:
manage a first set of the at least two servers, wherein the first set comprises the computing resources;
manage a second set of the at least two servers, wherein the second set comprises the storage resources;
obtain respective storage information from each server of the second set; and
group a plurality of local storage devices from the second set into a shared storage resource pool according to the obtained respective storage information of the servers of the second set,

wherein the first set overlaps with the second set at the at least one server,
wherein the computing resource of the virtual machine is allocated from the first set, and
wherein the storage resource of the virtual machine is allocated from the shared storage resource pool that is established based on the second set.

2. The cloud computing system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive messages for adding into the shared storage resource pool from the servers of the second set; and
establish the shared storage resource pool by adding the obtained respective storage information of the servers of the second set into the shared storage resource pool.

3. The cloud computing system according to claim 2 , wherein a storage service program is deployed on the servers of the second set, and wherein the storage service program is configured to send the messages for adding into the shared storage resource pool to the processor.

4. The cloud computing system according to claim 2 , wherein the storage resource processor is further configured to use a single disk of the second set as an independent node to establish the shared storage resource pool.

5. The cloud computing system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to map the allocated respective storage resource for the virtual machine into a logical storage device for the virtual machine to use.

6. The cloud computing system according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive an operation request for the logical storage device of the virtual machine; and
determine a physical location information corresponding to the logical storage device.

7. The cloud computing system according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive a resource deletion request that is sent by the virtual machine and used to request deletion of the logical storage device of the virtual machine; and
release a physical storage resource of a corresponding resource server in a specified area.

8. The cloud computing system according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to map the allocated respective storage resource for the virtual machine into the logical storage device complying with at least one of a Fiber Channel (FC) protocol, an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol, a Network Block Device (NBD) protocol, a key-value interface, and a file system interface.

9. A method for allocating resources for a virtual machine in a cloud computing system, comprising:
managing a first set of at least two servers in the cloud computing system, wherein the at least two servers provide resources for the virtual machine in the cloud computing system, wherein the resources of the at least two servers comprises computing resources and storage resources, wherein at least one server provides both the computing resources and the storage resources, and wherein the first set comprises the computing resources;
managing a second set of the at least two servers, wherein the second set has storage resources, and wherein the first set overlaps with the second set at the at least one server;
obtaining respective storage information from each server of the second set; and
grouping a plurality of local storage devices from the second set into a shared storage resource pool according to the obtained respective storage information of the servers of the second set, wherein the computing resource of the virtual machine is allocated from the first set, and wherein the storage resource of the virtual machine is allocated from the shared storage resource pool that is established based on the second set.

10. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
receives messages for adding into the shared storage resource pool sent from the servers of the second set; and
establishes the shared storage resource pool by adding the obtained respective storage information of the servers of the second set into the shared storage resource pool.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein a storage service program is deployed on the servers of the second set, and wherein the storage service program is configured to send the messages for adding into the shared storage resource pool from the servers of the second set.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the establishing the shared storage resource pool comprises establishing the shared storage resource pool using a single disk of the second set as an independent node.

13. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising mapping the allocated respective storage resource for the virtual machine into a logical storage device for the virtual machine to use.

14. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising:
receiving an operation request for the logical storage device of the virtual machine; and
determining a physical location information corresponding to the logical storage device.

15. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising:
receiving a resource deletion request that is sent by the virtual machine and used to request deletion of the logical storage device; and
releasing a physical storage resource of a corresponding resource server in a specified area.

16. The method according to claim 13 , wherein mapping the allocated respective storage resource for the virtual machine into a logical storage device comprises mapping the allocated respective storage resource for the virtual machine into the logical storage device complying with at least one of a Fiber Channel (FC) protocol, an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol, a Network Block Device (NBD) protocol, a key-value interface, and a file system interface.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Li
• Xu Yizhen
• Wu Xiaoming

Classifications

• G06F9/5072

  Grid computing · CPC title

• G06F3/067

  Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F3/0644

  Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools · CPC title

• G06F3/0605

  by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator · CPC title

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title