Inter-platform management of computing resources

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9716747-B2
Application number	US-201615270169-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2016
Priority date	Oct 16, 2015
Publication date	Jul 25, 2017
Grant date	Jul 25, 2017

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes identifying a primary computing platform, identifying one or more secondary computing platforms, and identifying a requesting virtual server. The requesting virtual server resides on the primary computing platform and is associated with one or more requesting clients. One or more donating virtual servers are identified. The donating virtual servers reside on the primary computing platform and are associated with one or more donating clients. One or more external virtual servers are identified. The external virtual servers reside on the secondary computing platforms. A resource donation scenario is determined. The resource donation scenario includes one or more resource exchanges between the requesting virtual server and the donating virtual servers. A resource adjustment scenario is determined. The resource adjustment scenario includes one or more resource exchanges between the external virtual servers. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying a primary computing platform;
identifying one or more secondary computing platforms;
identifying a requesting virtual server, said requesting virtual server residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more requesting clients;
identifying one or more donating virtual servers, said one or more donating virtual servers residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more donating clients;
identifying one or more external virtual servers, said one or more external virtual servers residing on said one or more secondary computing platforms;
determining a resource donation scenario, said resource donation scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said requesting virtual server and said one or more donating virtual servers;
determining a resource adjustment scenario, said resource adjustment scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said one or more external virtual servers; and
determining a resource need condition;
determining one or more resource adjustment criteria; and
determining whether execution of said resource adjustment scenario satisfies said one or more resource adjustment criteria; and

wherein determining said resource need condition comprises:
identifying a current resource access amount, said current resource access amount being the amount of resources that said requesting virtual server is entitled to;
identifying one or more performance goals, said one or more performance goals being associated with said requesting virtual server; and
estimating an optimal resource access amount, said optimal resource access amount being the amount of resources that, to satisfy said one or more performance goals, said requesting virtual server needs to be entitled to.

2. A computer program product, comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on said one or more computer readable storage media, said program instructions comprising instructions to:
identify a primary computing platform;
identify one or more secondary computing platforms;
identify a requesting virtual server, said requesting virtual server residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more requesting clients;
identify one or more donating virtual servers, said one or more donating virtual servers residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more donating clients;
identify one or more external virtual servers, said one or more external virtual servers residing on said one or more secondary computing platforms;
determine a resource donation scenario, said resource donation scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said requesting virtual server and said one or more donating servers;
determine a resource adjustment scenario, said resource adjustment scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said one or more external virtual servers;
determine a resource need condition;
determine one or more resource adjustment criteria; and
determine whether execution of said resource adjustment scenario satisfies said one or more resource adjustment criteria; and

wherein said instructions to determine said resource need condition comprise instructions to:
identify a current resource access amount, said current resource access amount being the amount of resources that said requesting virtual server is entitled to;
identify one or more performance goals, said one or more performance goals being associated with said requesting virtual server; and
estimate an optimal resource access amount, said optimal resource access amount being the amount of resources that, to satisfy said one or more performance goals, said requesting virtual server needs to be entitled to.

3. A computer system comprising:
a processor;
one or more computer readable storage media;
computer program instructions;
said computer program instructions being stored on said one or more computer readable storage media; and
said computer program instructions comprising instructions to:
identify a primary computing platform;
identify one or more secondary computing platforms;
identify a requesting virtual server, said requesting virtual server residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more requesting clients;
identify one or more donating virtual servers, said one or more donating virtual servers residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more donating clients;
identify one or more external virtual servers, said one or more external virtual servers residing on said one or more secondary computing platforms;
determine a resource donation scenario, said resource donation scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said requesting virtual server and said one or more donating servers; and
determine a resource adjustment scenario, said resource adjustment scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said one or more external virtual servers;
determine a resource need condition;
determine one or more resource adjustment criteria; and
determine whether execution of said resource adjustment scenario satisfies said one or more resource adjustment criteria; and

wherein said instructions to determine said resource need condition comprise instructions to:
identify a current resource access amount, said current resource access amount being the amount of resources that said requesting virtual server is entitled to;
identify one or more performance goals, said one or more performance goals being associated with said requesting virtual server; and
estimate an optimal resource access amount, said optimal resource access amount being the amount of resources that, to satisfy said one or more performance goals, said requesting virtual server needs to be entitled to.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Alonzo Victor G
• Chan Yuk L
• Cheng Gisela C
• Ng Kin
• Page Vaughn C

Classifications

• H04L41/0896

  Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities (flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76) · CPC title

• H04L67/42

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/10 Primary

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

• H04L41/5006

  Creating or negotiating SLA contracts, guarantees or penalties · CPC title

• H04L47/70

  Admission control; Resource allocation · CPC title