Tracking use of a virtualization service according to globalization characteristic based usage

• US 10,275,749 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2015
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Fang, Wu S., Liu, Su, Ly, Michael S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Eric T
• Application Number:
  US14/664,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20160275467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,502 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/20 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Tracking of data processing usage of a workload is initiated, within a virtualized environment, comprising one or more globalization characteristics, wherein the at least one globalization characteristic requires conversion by at least one globalization service managed by a virtualization service provider of the virtualized environment. The at least one globalization characteristic is detected. At least one usage metric of the data is tracked during data processing of the workload request. The globalization usage data is output comprising an identifier for the at least one application, an identifier for the at least one globalization characteristic, and the at least one usage metric to identify a particular amount of overhead during data processing based on the at least one globalization characteristic.

Claims

1. A system for dynamically tracking usage of a virtualized environment, comprising:

a processor, coupled with a memory, and configured to perform the actions of;

receiving, at a virtualization service, a plurality of workloads, each of the plurality of workloads received comprising separate at least one globalization characteristics from among a plurality of globalization characteristics comprising language, cultural conventions, and code set conventions, each of the plurality of workloads received from a separate user from among a plurality of users associated with a particular account;

initiating tracking, by a billing service of the virtualization service, of data processing usage for the plurality of workloads submitted under the particular account, by tracking an overall usage metric of at least one virtualized environment comprising at least one application of a plurality of applications operating on an operating system layer hosted on at least one platform from among a plurality of virtualized environments;

during data processing of each workload within the at least one virtual environment, converting at the operating system layer the separate at least one globalization characteristic by at least one globalization service of a plurality of globalization services managed by a virtualization service provider of the plurality of virtualized environments, each of the plurality of globalization services requiring a separate amount of overhead during data processing based on a type of globalization characteristic, each of the plurality of globalization characteristics requiring separate amounts of computing resources within the at least one virtualized environment;

tracking, by a globalization meter service operating at the operating system layer, a separate globalization usage metric of the separate amount of overhead of the globalization service and at least one particular globalization characteristic processed during data processing of each of the plurality of workloads;

reporting, by the globalization meter service to the billing service, the separate globalization usage metric tracked for each of the plurality of workloads; and

outputting, by the billing service, a bill for the particular account based on the overall usage metric for the particular account and separately identifying the separate globalization usage metric for each of the plurality of workloads to identify the separate amount of overhead during data processing per workload based on the at least one particular globalization characteristic processed.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the actions of:

initiating tracking, by a tracking application interface, by a code set converter library for the at least one globalization service called by the operating system layer, wherein the tracking application interface is integrated into the code set converter library.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the actions of:

initiating tracking, by a tracking application interface, by a message catalog handling application programming interface for the at least one globalization service called by the operating system layer, wherein the tracking application interface is integrated into the message catalog handling application programming interface.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the actions of:

buffering the identifier for the at least one particular globalization characteristic, the separate globalization usage metric, a start time when initiating tracking, and an end time when data processing is complete;

normalizing the buffered identifier of the at least one particular globalization characteristic, the separate globalization usage metric, the start time, and the end time into a normalized globalization usage record according to at least one normalizing rule; and

accumulating a plurality of normalized globalization usage records tracked during data processing of a plurality of workload requests, into a plurality of repositories according to a separate globalization characteristic of each of the plurality of normalized globalization usage records, each of the repositories categorized by a separate globalization characteristic of the plurality of globalization characteristics.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the actions of:

calculating at least one separate accumulated usage metric of the at least one separate globalization usage metric from a selection of normalized globalization usage records from among the plurality of normalized globalization usage records according to the separate at least one globalization characteristic of the plurality of globalization characteristics, a particular operating system instance, and a particular application of the plurality of applications tracked with each of the selection of normalized globalization usage records;

creating a table comprising each at least one separate accumulated usage metric specified according the separate at least one globalization characteristic, the particular operating system instance, and the particular application;

outputting the table as the globalization usage data to at least one interface of the virtualization service provider.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the actions of:

tracking the overall usage metric comprising an amount of inbound data and an amount of outbound data into and out of the at least one virtualized environment during data processing of the workload request.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform the actions of:

tracking the overall usage metric comprising a start time prior to data processing of the workload request in the at least one virtualized environment and an end time after data processing of the workload request at the at least one virtualized environment.

8. A computer program product for dynamically tracking usage of a virtualized environment, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

receive, at a virtualization service, a plurality of workloads, each of the plurality of workloads received comprising separate at least one globalization characteristics from among a plurality of globalization characteristics comprising language, cultural conventions, and code set conventions, each of the plurality of workloads received from a separate user from among a plurality of users associated with a particular account;

initiate tracking, by a billing service of the virtualization service, of data processing usage for the plurality of workloads submitted under the particular account, by tracking an overall usage metric of at least one virtualized environment comprising at least one application of a plurality of applications operating on an operating system layer hosted on at least one platform from among a plurality of virtualized environments;

during data processing of each workload within the at least one virtual environment, convert at the operating system layer the separate at least one globalization characteristic by at least one globalization service of a plurality of globalization services managed by a virtualization service provider of the plurality of virtualized environments, each of the plurality of globalization services requiring a separate amount of overhead during data processing based on a type of globalization characteristic, each of the plurality of globalization characteristics requiring separate amounts of computing resources within the at least one virtualized environment;

track, by a globalization meter service operating at the operating system layer, a separate globalization usage metric of the separate amount of overhead of the globalization service and at least one particular globalization characteristic processed during data processing of each of the plurality of workloads;

report, by the globalization meter service to the billing service, the separate globalization usage metric tracked for each of the plurality of workloads; and

output, by the billing service, a bill for the particular account based on the overall usage metric for the particular account and separately identifying the separate globalization usage metric for each of the plurality of workloads to identify the separate amount of overhead during data processing per workload based on the at least one particular globalization characteristic processed.

9. The computer program product according to claim 8, further comprising the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

initiate tracking, by a tracking application interface, by a code set converter library for the at least one globalization service called by the operating system layer, wherein the tracking application interface is integrated into the code set converter library.

10. The computer program product according to claim 8, further comprising the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

initiate tracking, by a tracking application interface, by a message catalog handling application programming interface for the at least one globalization service called by the operating system layer, wherein the tracking application interface is integrated into the message catalog handling application programming interface.

11. The computer program product according to claim 8, further comprising the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

buffer the identifier for the at least one particular globalization characteristic, the separate globalization usage metric, a start time when initiating tracking, and an end time when data processing is complete;

normalize the buffered identifier of the at least one particular globalization characteristic, the separate globalization usage metric, the start time, and the end time into a normalized globalization usage record according to at least one normalizing rule; and

accumulate a plurality of normalized globalization usage records tracked during data processing of a plurality of workload requests, into a plurality of repositories according to a separate globalization characteristic of each of the plurality of normalized globalization usage records, each of the repositories categorized by a separate globalization characteristic of the plurality of globalization characteristics.