Capacity scaling of network resources

• US 10,382,565 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Huamin
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Duc C
• Application Number:
  US15/417,723
• Publication Number:
  US 20180219955A1
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/503 Resource availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 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 Class Codes: H04L 41/0897 by horizontal or vertical scaling of resources, or by migrating entities, e.g. virtual resources or entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0805 by checking availability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/087 Jitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1029 using data related to the state of servers by a load balancer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1031 Controlling of the operation of servers by a load balancer, e.g. adding or removing servers that serve requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions

Abstract

A mechanism for adjusting a resource availability of a data center is disclosed. A processing device may receive a first request from a client device, wherein the request includes a set of instructions and a host name assigned to an internet protocol (IP) address of a server at a first data center to execute the set of instructions. The processing device may determine that a resource availability of the second data center is less than the resource availability of the first data center. The processing device may send a second response to the client device to send the set of instructions to the IP address of the first data center.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processing device of a first server, a first request from a client device, wherein the first request includes a task and a host name assigned to an internet protocol (IP) address of a second server at a first data center to perform the task;

determining that a resource availability of the first data center is less than a resource availability of a second data center;

in response to determining that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center;

sending a response to the client device to send the task to an IP address of a third server at the second data center; and

sending a second request to the first data center to migrate a virtual machine executing on the second server at the first data center to the third server at the second data center to release resources at the first data center.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center further comprises:

sending a first latency request to the second server at the first data center;

determining a latency for receiving a first response to the first latency request;

sending a second latency request to the third server at the second data center;

determining a latency for receiving a second response to the second latency request; and

determining that the latency for receiving the first response is longer than the latency for receiving the second response indicating that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center further comprises:

sending a second availability request to a second load balancer of the second data center requesting resource availability information for the third server at the second data center;

receiving the resource availability information for the third server at the second data center indicating the resource availability of the second data center; and

determining that the resource availability of the second data center is greater than the resource availability of the first data center.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a first location request for location information to a processing device at the first data center;

receiving a first response indicating a first location of the first data center;

sending a second location request for location information to the processing device at the second data center;

receiving a second response indicating a second location of the second data center; and

determining that the first location is geographically closer to the client device than the second location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein migrating the virtual machine to the second data center further comprises:

suspending the virtual machine;

relocating configuration files and disk files for the suspended virtual machine to the third server at the second data center;

migrating the suspended virtual machine to the to the server at the second data center; and

activating the virtual machine at the third server at the second data center.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein migrating the virtual machine to the second data center further comprises:

relocating configuration files and disk files for the virtual machine to the third server at the second data center, without any interruption in the availability of the virtual machine; and

migrating the virtual machine to the to the third server at the second data center, wherein the virtual machine is live while being migrated.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein migrating the virtual machine to the third server at the second data center releases the resources dedicated to the virtual machine at the first data center.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising redirecting the first request from the IP address of the second server at the first data center to the IP address of the third server at the second data center.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory, to execute the instructions to;

receive a first request from a client device, wherein the first request includes a set of tasks and a host name assigned to an internet protocol (IP) address of a first server at a first data center to perform the set of tasks;

determine that a resource availability of the first data center is less than a resource availability of a second data center;

in response to determining that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center, send a response to the client device to send the set of tasks to an IP address of a second server at the second data center; and

send a second request to a load balancer of the first data center to activate the second server at the second data center to perform the set of tasks.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein to determine that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center, the processing device is further to:

send a first latency request to the first server at the first data center;

determine a latency for receiving a first response to the first latency request;

send a second latency request to the second server at the second data center;

determine a latency for receiving a second response to the second latency request; and

determine that the latency for receiving the first response is longer than the latency for receiving the second response indicating that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

determine a relative difference in the resource availability of the first data center and the resource availability of the second data center;

determine whether the relative difference is greater than a threshold availability level; and

redirect the first request to the second data center when the relative difference is greater than the threshold availability level, wherein the threshold availability level is a latency threshold associated with a quality of service (QoS) level, wherein the latency of the first response indicates an availability of the resources of the first data center.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processing device is further to determine the QoS level by selecting a lowest QoS level from among a QoS level of the first data center and a QoS level of the second data center.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the latency threshold is associated with a packet loss for a communication between the client device and the first data center.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing device is further to, in response to the resource availability of the first data center being less than the resource availability of the second data center and the resource availability of the first data center being below a threshold availability level, send a request to a load balancer of the second data center to deactivate one or more servers at the second data center.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein when the set of tasks includes a task to access data stored at the second server at the second data center, the processing device is further to transfer the data to the second server at the second data center from the first server at the first data center.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein in response to the first server at the first data center storing data in a database, the processing device is further to:

transfer the data that has not been accessed within a threshold period of time to the second server at the second data center; and

release memory where the data is stored at the first server of the first data center.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored therein, which when executed, cause a processing device to:

receive a first request from a client device, wherein the first request includes a set of tasks and a host name assigned to an internet protocol (IP) address of a first server at a first data center to perform the set of tasks;

determine that a resource availability of a second data center is less than the resource availability of the first data center; and

in response to determining that the resource availability of the second data center is less than a resource availability of the first data center, send a response to the client device to send the set of tasks to the IP address of the first data center.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein to determine that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center, the processing device is further to:

send a first latency request to the first server at the first data center;

determine a latency for receiving a first response to the first latency request;

send a second latency request to a second server at the second data center;

determine a latency for receiving a second response to the second latency request; and

determine that the latency for receiving the first response is longer than the latency for receiving the second response indicating that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein to determine that the resource availability of the first data center is less than the resource availability of the second data center, the processing device is further to:

send a first request to a first load balancer of the first data center requesting resource availability information for the first server at the first data center;

receive the resource availability information for the first server at the first data center indicating a first resource availability of the first data center;

receive the resource availability information for the second data center indicating a second resource availability of the second data center; and

determine that the second resource availability is greater than the first resource availability.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the processing device is part of a domain name service (DNS) server or a name-based virtual hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server.