Optimized resource metering in a multi tenanted distributed file system

• US 10,120,724 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2016
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Badjatia, Sudeep, Bhose, Rajarshi, Deb, Bijoy, Nandi, Ripon
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghaffari, Abu
• Application Number:
  US15/237,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20180052714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 812 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3442 for planning or managing the needed capacity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3447 Performance evaluation by modeling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/183 Provision of network file services by network file servers, e.g. by using NFS, CIFS network file access protocols H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/31 Distributed metering or calculation of charges
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/66 Policy and charging system
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A method and system for automatically metering a distributed file system node is provided. The method includes receiving data associated with jobs for execution via a distributed file system. Characteristics of the jobs are uploaded and policy metrics data associated with hardware usage metering is retrieved. Resource requests associated with hardware resource usage are retrieved and attributes associated with the resource requests are uploaded. The policy metrics data is analyzed and a recommendation circuit is queried with respect to the resource requests. A set of metrics of the policy metrics data associated with the resource requests is determined and a machine learning circuit is updated. Utilized hardware resources are determined with respect to the hardware usage metering and said resource requests.

Claims

1. A distributed file system metering and hardware usage technology improvement method comprising:

receiving from a user, by a processor of a hardware device comprising specialized discrete non-generic analog, digital, and logic based plugin circuitry including a specially designed integrated circuit designed for only implementing said distributed file system metering and hardware usage technology improvement method, job data associated with jobs for execution via a distributed file system;

uploading from said job data, by said processor to a memory device of said hardware device, characteristics of said jobs;

retrieving, by said processor enabling a policy engine circuit of said hardware device, policy and cost metrics data associated with hardware usage metering, wherein said policy and cost metrics data comprises policies implemented as pluggable components defined in advance, by;

uploading xml files, via descriptor files or json fides, or via a command line, for said jobs;

retrieving, by said processor enabling a hardware device cluster, resource requests describing hardware resource usage of said jobs and metered with respect to a fine grained level of the actual utilization of hardware resources;

querying, by said processor enabling a job descriptor engine of said hardware device, a recommendation circuit for locating said policy and cost metrics data of said resource requests;

determining, by said processor enabling a machine learning circuit with respect to results of said querying, a set of metrics of said policy and cost metrics data associated with said resource requests;

updating, by said processor based on said set of metrics, said machine learning circuit with characteristics of said jobs associated with network delays, sudden change of memory data volumes, and hardware device failure;

detecting, by said processor enabling voltage sensors comprised by said hardware device, voltages associated with a hardware cluster;

detecting, by said processor enabling temperature sensors comprised by said hardware device, temperature readings associated with said hardware cluster, wherein said voltages and said temperature readings are analyzed to indicate a speed and usage of CPUs and a memory space available for said hardware cluster;

determining, by said processor enabling a metrics circuit with respect to said set of metrics, said voltages, and said temperature readings, utilized hardware resources of said hardware cluster with respect to said hardware usage metering and said resource requests; and

allocating, by said processor based on results of said characteristics of said jobs and results of said determining said utilized hardware resources, specified queue memory and associated processor cores to said hardware cluster thereby enabling control functionality for overall resource utilization of said hardware cluster and improving execution of said jobs being executed on said hardware cluster;

generating, by said processor executing a resource descriptor circuit, resource infrastructure associated with hardware resources of said resource requests, wherein said generating is executed based on said policy engine circuit providing various policies and cost metrics for calculating said hardware usage metering, and wherein said policy engine circuit comprises the pluggable components;

monitoring, by said processor executing said job descriptor engine, a plurality of nodes, hardware resources, processors, memory devices, and distributed system networks; and

determining, by said processor, a configuration of said hardware device cluster based on an analysis of types of workloads and job characterizations;

determining, by said processor, workloads associated with said plurality of nodes, said hardware resources, said processors, said memory devices, and said distributed system networks;

determining, by said processor, a recommendation for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster; and

calculating, by said computer processor, a cost for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster, wherein said

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said distributed file system comprises a multi tenanted distributed file system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said job descriptor engine comprises circuitry for defining said characteristics of said jobs for execution on:

a plurality of nodes, hardware resources, processors, memory devices, and distributed system networks.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said job descriptor engine receives inputs associated with said characteristics of said jobs during submission of said jobs submission via a descriptive syntax, wherein said characteristics of said jobs comprise a minimum and maximum memory required or a limit associated with a data transfer rate.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said job descriptor engine executes said machine learning circuit for dynamically updating itself with a history of job types, of said jobs, that have been executed in a specified sequence or have been submitted based on similar groups of users.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein said job descriptor engine dynamically updates said characteristics of the jobs based on network delays, sudden change of data volumes, or hardware failure, and wherein said job descriptor engine monitors said plurality of nodes, said hardware resources, said processors, a cluster health, and cluster optimum processing capability.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

segmenting, by said processor, data describing said jobs for allocation of resources and estimation of capacity requirements.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

generating, by said processor, dynamic values for constants associated with the cost function.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said resource infrastructure enables resource infrastructure improvements comprising replacing hardware components of said hardware resources.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said resource infrastructure enables resource infrastructure improvements comprising adding new hardware resources to said resource infrastructure comprising said hardware resources.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said resource infrastructure enables resource infrastructure improvements comprising optimizing functionality resource utilization of said hardware resources with respect to each of said hardware resources, and wherein said resource infrastructure improvements comprise dynamically recommending allocation of separate queue or fixed size allocation of said hardware resources to said jobs such that an overall resource utilization of a cluster enables additional jobs being executed on said cluster.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing at least one support service for at least one of creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and deploying computer-readable code in the hardware device, said code being executed by the computer processor to implement;

said receiving, said uploading said characteristics, said retrieving said policy and cost metrics data, said retrieving said resource requests, said uploading said attributes, said analyzing, said querying, said determining said set of metrics, said updating, and said determining said utilized hardware resources.

13. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device storing a computer readable program code, said computer readable program code comprising an algorithm that when executed by a processor of a hardware device implements a distributed file system node metering and hardware usage technology improvement method, said method comprising:

receiving from a user, by said processor, job data associated with jobs for execution via a distributed file system, wherein said hardware device comprises specialized discrete non-generic analog, digital, and logic based plugin circuitry including a specially designed integrated circuit designed for only implementing said distributed file system metering and hardware usage technology improvement method;

uploading from said job data, by said processor to a memory device of said hardware device, characteristics of said jobs;

retrieving, by said processor enabling a policy engine circuit of said hardware device, policy and cost metrics data associated with hardware usage metering, wherein said policy and cost metrics data comprises policies implemented as pluggable components defined in advance, by;

uploading xml files, via descriptor files or json files, or via a command line, for said jobs;

retrieving, by said processor enabling a hardware device cluster, resource requests describing hardware resource usage of said jobs and metered with respect to a fine grained level of the actual utilization of hardware resources;

querying, by said processor enabling a job descriptor engine of said hardware device, a recommendation circuit for locating said policy and cost metrics data of said resource requests;

determining, by said processor enabling a machine learning circuit with respect to results of said querying, a set of metrics of said policy and cost metrics data associated with said resource requests;

updating, by said processor based on said set of metrics, said machine learning circuit with characteristics of said jobs associated with network delays, sudden change of memory data volumes, and hardware device failure;

detecting, by said processor enabling voltage sensors comprised by said hardware device, voltages associated with a hardware cluster;

detecting, by said processor enabling temperature sensors comprised by said hardware device, temperature readings associated with said hardware cluster, wherein said voltages and said temperature readings are analyzed to indicate a speed and usage of CPUs and a memory space available for said hardware cluster;

determining, by said processor enabling a metrics circuit with respect to said set of metrics, said voltages, and said temperature readings, utilized hardware resources of said hardware cluster with respect to said hardware usage metering and said resource requests; and

allocating, by said processor based on results of said characteristics of said jobs and results of said determining said utilized hardware resources, specified queue memory and associated processor cores to said hardware cluster thereby enabling control functionality for overall resource utilization of said hardware cluster and improving execution of said jobs being executed on said hardware cluster;

generating, by said processor executing a resource descriptor circuit, resource infrastructure associated with hardware resources of said resource requests, wherein said generating is executed based on sail policy engine circuit providing various policies and cost metrics for calculating said hardware usage metering, and wherein said policy engine circuit comprises the pluggable components;

monitoring, by said processor executing said job descriptor engine, a plurality of nodes, hardware resources, processors, memory devices, and distributed system networks; and

determining, by said processor, a configuration of said hardware device cluster based on an analysis of types of workloads and job characterizations;

determining, by said processor, workloads associated with said plurality of nodes, said hardware resources, said processors, said memory devices, and said distributed system networks;

determining, by said processor a recommendation for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster; and

calculating, by said computer processor, a cost for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster, wherein said calculating, by said computer processor, a cost for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster, wherein said

14. A hardware device comprising a processor coupled to a computer-readable memory unit, said memory unit comprising instructions that when executed by the processor executes a distributed file system node metering and hardware usage technology improvement method comprising:

receiving from a user, by said processor, job data associated with jobs for execution via a distributed file system, wherein said hardware device comprises specialized discrete non-generic analog, digital and logic based plugin circuitry including a specially designed integrated circuit designed for only implementing said distributed file system metering and hardware usage technology improvement method;

uploading from said job data, by said processor to a memory device of said hardware device, characteristics of said jobs;

retrieving, by said processor enabling a policy engine circuit of said hardware device, policy and cost metrics data associated with hardware usage metering, wherein said policy and cost metrics data comprises policies implemented as pluggable components defined in advance, by;

uploading xml files, via descriptor files or json files, or via a command line, for said jobs;

retrieving, by said processor enabling a hardware device cluster, resource requests describing hardware resource usage of said jobs and metered with respect to a fine grained level of the actual utilization of hardware resources;

querying, by sail processor enabling a job descriptor engine of said hardware device, a recommendation circuit for locating said policy and cost metrics data of said resource requests;

determining, by said processor enabling a machine learning circuit with respect to results of said querying, a set of metrics of said policy and cost metrics data associated with said resource requests;

updating, by said processor based on said set of metrics, said machine learning circuit with characteristics of said jobs associated with network delays, sudden change of memory data volumes, and hardware device failure;

detecting, by said processor enabling voltage sensors comprised by said hardware device, voltages associated with a hardware cluster;

detecting, by said processor enabling temperature sensors comprised by said hardware device, temperature readings associated with said hardware cluster, wherein said voltages and said temperature readings are analyzed to indicate a speed and usage of CPUs and a memory space available for said hardware cluster;

determining, by said processor enabling a metrics circuit with respect to said set of metrics, said voltages, and said temperature readings, utilized hardware resources of said hardware cluster with respect to said hardware usage metering and said resource requests; and

allocating, by said processor based on results of said characteristics of said jobs and results of said determining said utilized hardware resources, specified queue memory and associated processor cores to said hardware cluster thereby enabling control functionality for overall resource utilization of said hardware cluster and improving execution of said jobs being executed on said hardware cluster;

generating, by said processor executing a resource descriptor circuit, resource infrastructure associated with hardware resources of said resource requests, wherein said generating is executed based on said policy engine circuit providing various policies and cost metrics for calculating said hardware usage metering, and wherein said policy engine circuit comprises the pluggable components;

monitoring, by said processor executing said job descriptor engine, a plurality of nodes, hardware resources, processors, memory devices, and distributed system networks; and

determining, by said processor, a configuration of said hardware device cluster based on an analysis of types of workloads and job characterizations;

determining, by said processor, workloads associated with said plurality of nodes, said hardware resources, said processors, said memory devices, and said distributed system networks;

determining, by said processor a recommendation for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster; and

calculating, by said computer processor, a cost for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster, wherein said

15. A distributed file system resource utilization metering and hardware usage technology improvement method comprising:

analyzing, by a processor enabling an analysis circuit of a hardware device, resource requests for resource usage of hardware devices in a multi-tenancy system, wherein said hardware device comprises specialized discrete non-generic analog, digital, and logic based plugin circuitry including a specially designed integrated circuit designed for only implementing said distributed file system resource utilization metering and hardware usage technology improvement method;

monitoring, by said processor, said resource usage of said hardware devices with respect to functions executed by said hardware devices in response to said resource requests;

determining, by said processor, that said functions executed by said hardware devices have been completed;

determining, by said processor, billing amounts for said resource usage of said hardware devices;

analyzing, by said processor, said billing amounts for said resource usage for each of said resource requests;

modifying for optimization of resource usage, hardware and software utilization and functionality of components of said hardware devices based on said analyzing said billing amounts;

updating, by said processor based on a set of determined metrics, a machine learning circuit with characteristics of jobs associated with network delays, sudden change of memory data volumes, and hardware device failure;

detecting, by said processor enabling voltage sensors comprised by said hardware device, voltages associated with a hardware cluster;

detecting, by said processor enabling temperature sensors comprised by said hardware device, temperature readings associated with said hardware cluster, wherein said voltages and said temperature readings are analyzed to indicate a speed and usage of CPUs and a memory space available for said hardware cluster;

determining, by said processor enabling a metrics circuit with respect to said set of determined metrics, said voltages, and said temperature readings, utilized hardware resources of said hardware cluster with respect to said hardware usage metering and said resource requests; and

allocating, by said processor based on results of said characteristics of said jobs and results of said determining said utilized hardware resources, specified queue memory and associated processor cores to said hardware cluster thereby enabling control functionality for overall resource utilization of said hardware cluster and improving execution of said jobs being executed on said hardware cluster;

generating, by said processor executing a resource descriptor circuit, resource infrastructure associated with hardware resources of said resource requests, wherein said generating is executed based on said policy engine circuit providing various policies and cost metrics for calculating said hardware usage metering, and wherein said policy engine circuit comprises the pluggable components;

monitoring, by said processor executing a job descriptor engine, a plurality of nodes, hardware resources, processors, memory devices, and distributed system networks; and

determining, by said processor, a configuration of said hardware device cluster based on an analysis of types of workloads and job characterizations;

determining, by said processor, workloads associated with said plurality of nodes, said hardware resources, said processors, said memory devices, and said distributed system networks;

determining, by said processor a recommendation for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster; and

calculating, by said computer processor, a cost for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster, wherein said

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said monitoring said resource usage of said hardware devices comprises monitoring an amount of memory space being used by said components of said hardware devices.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein said monitoring said resource usage of said hardware devices comprises monitoring a CPU utilization rate and percentage necessary for execution of said components of said hardware devices.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein said monitoring said resource usage of said hardware devices comprises monitoring network device usage of said components of said hardware devices.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein said monitoring said resource usage of said hardware devices is performed via hardware sensors of said hardware devices.

20. A hardware device comprising a processor coupled to a computer-readable memory unit, said memory unit comprising instructions that when executed by the processor executes a distributed file system resource utilization metering and hardware usage technology improvement method comprising:

analyzing, by said processor enabling an analysis circuit of a hardware device, resource requests for resource usage of hardware devices in a multi-tenancy system, wherein said hardware device comprises specialized discrete non-generic analog, digital, and logic based plugin circuitry including a specially designed integrated circuit designed for only implementing said distributed file system resource utilization metering and hardware usage technology improvement method;

monitoring, by said processor, said resource usage of said hardware devices with respect to functions executed by said hardware devices in response to said resource requests;

determining, by said processor, that said functions executed by said hardware devices have been completed;

determining, by said processor, billing amounts for said resource usage of said hardware devices;

analyzing, by said processor, said billing amounts for said resource usage for each of said resource requests;

modifying for optimization of resource usage, hardware and software utilization and functionality of components of said hardware devices based on said analyzing said billing amounts;

updating, by said processor based on a set of determined metrics, a machine learning circuit with characteristics of jobs associated with network delays, sudden change of memory data volumes, and hardware device failure;

detecting, by said processor enabling voltage sensors comprised by said hardware device, voltages associated with a hardware cluster;

detecting, by said processor enabling temperature sensors comprised by said hardware device, temperature readings associated with said hardware cluster, wherein said voltages and said temperature readings are analyzed to indicate a speed and usage of CPUs and a memory space available for said hardware cluster;

determining, by said processor enabling a metrics circuit with respect to said set of determined metrics, said voltages, and said temperature readings, utilized hardware resources of said hardware cluster with respect to said hardware usage metering and said resource requests; and

allocating, by said processor based on results of said characteristics of said jobs and results of said determining said utilized hardware resources, specified queue memory and associated processor cores to said hardware cluster thereby enabling control functionality for overall resource utilization of said hardware cluster and improving execution of said jobs being executed on said hardware cluster;

generating, by said processor executing a resource descriptor circuit, resource infrastructure associated with hardware resources of said resource requests, wherein said generating is executed based on said policy engine circuit providing various policies and cost metrics for calculating said hardware usage metering, and wherein said policy engine circuit comprises the pluggable components;

monitoring, by said processor executing a job descriptor engine, a plurality of nodes, hardware resources, processors, memory devices, and distributed system networks; and

determining, by said processor, a configuration of said hardware device cluster based on an analysis of types of workloads and job characterizations;

determining, by said processor, workloads associated with said plurality of nodes, said hardware resources, said processors, said memory devices, and said distributed system networks;

determining, by said processor based a recommendation for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster; and

calculating, by said computer processor, a cost for improving said configuration of said hardware device cluster, wherein said