Cloud management with power management support

• US 10,001,821 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Dehaan, Michael Paul, Henson, Scott Jared, Eckersberg, II, John Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David R
• Application Number:
  US14/822,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20150346787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,044 Days
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 1/04 Preserving or maintaining viable microorganisms immobilised microorganisms C12N11/00
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 1/10 Protozoa; Culture media therefor
• CPC Class Codes: C12P 7/6409 Fatty acids
• CPC Class Codes: C12P 7/6427 Polyunsaturated fatty acids [PUFA], i.e. having two or more double bonds in their backbone
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/06 Quantitative determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45575 Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5094 where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A system and method for managing power in virtualized computer systems are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a request to instantiate a virtual machine is received. A processor determines that a power state is to be altered to instantiate the virtual machine on a computing system, and in response to the determination, alters the power state.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request to instantiate a virtual machine, wherein the request specifies a specific period of time for utilization of the virtual machine;

selecting, by a processor, a computing system from a plurality of computing systems where the virtual machine is to be instantiated based upon the specific period of time specified in the request;

determining, by the processor, that a power state is to be altered, by a power cycle of the computer system, in order to instantiate the virtual machine on the computing system; and

altering the power state of the computing system in response to the determining, wherein altering the power state of the computing system comprises performing the power cycle of the computing system.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising instantiating the virtual machine on the computing system.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the instantiating of the virtual machine is by a system that is different than the computing system.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the request comprises a specification of the virtual machine.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the specification indicates a type of virtual machine.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein, selecting, by the processor, the computing system from the plurality of computing systems where the virtual machine is to be instantiated is based on the specification.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the altering of the power state comprises providing a command to a power management system.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a network interface; and

a processor, operatively coupled to the network interface, to;

receive, via the network interface, a request to instantiate a virtual machine, wherein the request specifies a specific period of time for utilization of the virtual machine,

select a computing system from a plurality of computing systems where the virtual machine is to be instantiated based upon the specific period of time specified in the request,

determine that a power state of the computing system is to be altered, by a power cycle of the computer system, in order to instantiate the virtual machine, and

alter the power state of the computing system, wherein to alter the power state of the computing system comprises performing the power cycle of the computing system.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the processor is further to instantiate the virtual machine on a computing system.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the request comprises a specification of the virtual machine.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the specification indicates a process to be performed by the virtual machine.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein selection of the computing system from the plurality of computing systems where the virtual machine is to be instantiated is based on the specification.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein to alter the power state the processor is to provide a command to a power management system.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause a processor to:

receive a request to instantiate a virtual machine, wherein the request specifies a specific period of time for utilization of the virtual machine;

select a computing system from a plurality of computing systems where the virtual machine is to be instantiated based upon the specific period of time specified in the request;

determine that a power state is to be altered, by a power cycle of the computer system, in order to instantiate the virtual machine on the computing system; and

alter the power state of the computing system, wherein to alter the power state of the computing system comprises performing the power cycle of the computing system.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 wherein the instructions further cause instantiation of the virtual machine on the computing system.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 wherein the instantiation is by a system that is different than the computing system.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 wherein the request comprises a specification of the virtual machine.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the specification indicates a computing resource for the virtual machine.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein select the computing system from the plurality of computing systems where the virtual machine is to be instantiated is based on the specification.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 to alter the power state, the processor is to provide a command to a power management system.