Resource allocation

• US 10,536,394 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Eckstein, Denise Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): Parry, Chris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stiltner, Weiwei Y
• Application Number:
  US15/327,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20170187644A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,814 Days
• Field of Search: 709226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• 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

Abstract

An example system includes one or more users, each user having an allocation of each of one or more resources; and one or more resource brokers, each of the one or more users being associated with one of the one or more resource brokers. A first resource broker of the one or more resource brokers, upon detecting an insufficient allocation of a resource to an associated user, obtains additional allocation of the resource from another user of the one or more users through a second resource broker associated with the another user.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a memory resource storing machine-readable instructions to cause the processor to;

detect, via a first resource broker corresponding to a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices, an insufficient allocation of a first portion of a shared pool of computing resources, allocable among the plurality of computing devices, to the first computing device;

obtain, via an exchange brokered between the first resource broker and a second resource broker corresponding to a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices, a reallocation of a second portion of the shared pool of computing resources, initially allocated to a second computing device, from the second computing device to the first computing device;

detect a third computing device of the plurality of computing devices leaving a federation of the plurality of computing devices;

transfer a third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the third computing device to a quarantine reserve responsive to the detection of the third computing device leaving the federation; and

transfer a third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the quarantine reserve back to the third computing device responsive to detecting the third computing device rejoining the federation.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first resource broker corresponds to a first user profile and the second resource broker corresponds to a second user profile.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions to detect the insufficient allocation include instructions to detect the insufficient allocation based on a comparison of the first portion of the shared pool of computing resources to a threshold amount of the computing resource to be available for use at the first computing device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions to detect the insufficient allocation include instructions to detect the insufficient allocation based on a notification from a user corresponding to the computing device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the exchange between the first resource broker and the second resource broker includes an exchange of a third portion of the shared pool of computing resources allocated to the first computing device from the first computing device to the second computing device in exchange for the second portion of the shared pool of computing resources.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein terms of the exchange governed by a computing resource type-specific policy.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the shared pool of computing resources includes a shared pool of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the shared pool of computing resources includes a shared pool of user application licenses.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the shared pool of computing resources includes a shared pool of storage on a shared storage device.

10. The system of claim 1, including instructions to:

transfer a third portion of the shared pool of computing resources from a third computing device of the plurality of computing devices responsive to detecting the third computing device has left a federation of the plurality of computing devices; and

transfer the third portion of the shared pool of computing resources back to the third computing device responsive to detecting that the third computing device has returned to the federation of the plurality of computing devices.

11. A method, comprising:

detecting an insufficient allocation of a first range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, from a shared pool of IP addresses allocated among a plurality of computing devices, allocated to a first computing device through a resource broker corresponding to the first computing device;

identifying, through the resource broker corresponding to the first computing device, a second computing device with an excess allocation of a second range of IP addresses;

obtaining, through a resource broker corresponding to the second computing device, a reallocation of a portion of the second range of IP addresses from the second computing device to the first computing device;

detecting a third computing device of the plurality of computing devices leaving a federation of the plurality of computing devices;

transferring a third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the third computing device to a quarantine reserve responsive to the detection of the third computing device leaving the federation; and

transferring the third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the quarantine reserve back to the third computing device responsive to detecting the third computing device rejoining the federation.

12. The method of claim 11, including determining whether to permit the reallocation of the portion of the second range of IP addresses based on a comparison of a resulting total amount of IP addresses allocated to the first computing device to a limit of IP addresses allocable to the first computing device.

13. The method of claim 11, including determining whether to permit the reallocation of the portion of the second range of IP addresses based on a comparison of a resulting total amount of IP addresses allocated to the second computing device to a reserve IP address capacity threshold established for the second computing device.

14. The method of claim 11, including determining whether to permit the reallocation of the portion of the second range of IP addresses based on a comparison of an amount of IP addresses to be reallocated in the portion of the second range of IP addresses to a threshold amount of IP addresses allocable in an exchange between computing devices.

15. The method of claim 11, including identifying the second computing device with an excess allocation of a second range of IP addresses by broadcasting a signal, from the resource broker corresponding to the first computing device, requesting an allocation of additional IP addresses.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

detect an insufficient allocation of a first portion of a shared pool of user application licenses allocated to a first computing device;

identify a second computing device with an excess allocation of a second portion of the shared pool of user application licenses;

obtain a reallocation of the second portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the second computing device to the first computing device through a resource broker associated with the second computing device;

detect a third computing device of the plurality of computing devices leaving a federation of the plurality of computing devices;

transfer a third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the third computing device to a quarantine reserve responsive to the detection of the third computing device leaving the federation; and

transfer the third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the quarantine reserve back to the third computing device responsive to detecting the third computing device rejoining the federation.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, including instructions to transfer a third portion of the shared pool of user application licenses from the third computing device to the first computing device responsive to the detection of the third computing device leaving the federation.