Automatic simulation of virtual machine performance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9727440-B2
Application number	US-97925910-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2010
Priority date	Jun 22, 2007
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A method and apparatus of simulating performance characteristics of a virtual machine are disclosed. An example method may include selecting and inserting a virtual machine into a business application service group that includes a plurality of enterprise network devices, initiating a simulation sequence for a predetermined amount of time, recording results of the simulation sequence, and storing the results in memory.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
identifying a business application service group comprising a plurality of nodes to communicate with each other to provide functionality of a business application, the plurality of nodes including a plurality of enterprise network devices that comprise one or more virtual machines;
selecting, by a processing device, an additional virtual machine for the business application service group based on a profile requirement of the virtual machine;
inserting the additional virtual machine in the business application service group;
initiating a simulation sequence for the additional virtual machine for a predetermined amount of time in view of a first set of constraint parameters associated with a first set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine;
determining that an insertion of the additional virtual machine into the business application service group does not satisfy the first set of constraint parameters, and performing the simulation sequence for the additional virtual machine in view of a second set of constraint parameters associated with a second set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine, to evaluate performance of the business application service group in providing the functionality of the business application; and
recording results of the simulation sequence and storing the results in a memory.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
selecting the first set of threshold performance characteristics prior to selecting and inserting the additional virtual machine in the business application service group.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first set of threshold performance characteristics is at least one of a CPU threshold usage, a memory threshold usage, a network resource usage or a disk threshold usage.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of enterprise network devices further include at least one of a host device, or a datastore device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein initiating a simulation sequence pertaining to the first set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine for a predetermined amount of time comprises using predetermined historic data of operational usage characteristics of the plurality of enterprise network devices.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the operational usage characteristics of the plurality of enterprise network devices is in view of a last 24 hours of operation of the business application service group.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined amount of time is at least one of one week, one month, or three months.

8. An apparatus comprising:
a processor to identify a business application service group comprising a plurality of nodes to communicate with each other to provide functionality of a business application, the plurality of nodes including a plurality of enterprise network devices that comprise one or more virtual machines, select an additional virtual machine for the business application service group based on a profile requirement of the virtual machine, insert the additional virtual machine in the business application service group, to initiate a simulation sequence for the additional virtual machine for a predetermined amount of time in view of a first set of constraint parameters associated with a first set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine, to determine that an insertion of the additional virtual machine into the business application service group does not satisfy the first set of constraint parameters, and to perform the simulation sequence for the additional virtual machine in view of a second set of constraint parameters associated with a second set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine, to evaluate performance of the business application service group in providing the functionality of the business application; and
a memory, coupled to the processor, to store recorded results of the simulation sequence.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the first set of threshold performance characteristics is selected prior to inserting the additional virtual machine in the business application service group.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the first set of threshold performance characteristics is at least one of a CPU threshold usage, a memory threshold usage, a network resource usage or a disk threshold usage.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of enterprise network devices includes at least one of a host device, or a datastore device.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is to initiate the simulation sequence for the predetermined amount of time using predetermined historic data of operational usage characteristics of the plurality of enterprise network devices.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the operational usage characteristics of the plurality of enterprise network devices is based on a last 24 hours of operation of the business application service group.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the predetermined amount of time is at least one of one week, one month, or three months.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor to:
identify a business application service group comprising a plurality of nodes to communicate with each other to provide functionality of a business application, the plurality of nodes including a plurality of enterprise network devices that comprise one or more virtual machines;
select, by the processor, an additional virtual machine for the business application service group based on a profile requirement of the virtual machine;
insert the additional virtual machine in the business application service group;
initiate a simulation sequence for the additional virtual machine for a predetermined amount of time in view of a first set of constraint parameters associated with a first set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine;
determine that an insertion of the additional virtual machine into the business application service group does not satisfy the first set of constraint parameters, and perform the simulation sequence for the additional virtual machine in view of a second set of constraint parameters associated with a second set of threshold performance characteristics of the additional virtual machine to evaluate performance of the business application service group in providing the functionality of the business application; and
record results of the simulation sequence and storing the results in a memory.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , the processor further to:
select the first set of threshold performance characteristics prior to selecting and inserting the additional virtual machine in the business application service group.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the first set of threshold performance characteristics is at least one of a CPU threshold usage, a memory threshold usage, a network resource usage or a disk threshold usage.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of enterprise network devices includes at least one of a host device, or a datastore device.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein to initiate a simulation sequence pertaining to a first set of threshold perfo

Assignees

• Suit John M
• Red Hat Inc

Inventors

• Suit John M

Classifications

• G06F11/3051

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs (verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247) · CPC title

• G06F2201/81

  Threshold · CPC title

• G06F11/3433

  for load management (allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029) · CPC title

• G06F11/3079

  the data filtering being achieved by reporting only the changes of the monitored data · CPC title

• G06F2201/815

  Virtual · CPC title