Resource federation

• US 10,725,831 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2014
• Issued: 07/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2014
• 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, Kumpf, Roger, Sauer, Jonathan M., Harrison, Brian D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Diem K
• Application Number:
  US15/316,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20170206114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,120 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/503 Resource availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources

Abstract

An example system includes one or more resource managers forming a federation of resources, at least one resource manager being associated with one or more resources; a federation hub for receiving local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers, wherein the federation hub aggregates the local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers and provides an aggregated view of all resources of the federation; and a bylaw guardian for determining compliance of each of the one or more resource managers to requirements of the federation.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a plurality of resource managers forming a federation of resources, at least one resource manager being associated with one or more resources;

a federation hub, comprising a first of the plurality of resource managers, for receiving local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers, wherein the federation hub aggregates the local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers and provides an aggregated view of all resources of the federation; and

a bylaw guardian, comprising at least one of the plurality of resource managers, to;

determine compliance of each of the plurality of resource managers to requirements of the federation;

receive a request from the first resource manager to assign the particular resource manager to serve as the federation hub; and

assign the first resource manager to serve as the federation hub in response to receipt of at least one of a role reassignment request from the federation hub and the request from the particular resource manager,

wherein the bylaw guardian includes resource managers satisfying requirements of the federation into the federation and excludes resource managers violating requirements of the federation from the federation.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a federation bus coupled to facilitate communication between the plurality of resource managers.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the bylaw guardian comprises the first resource manager.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the bylaw guardian allows merger with a second federation by confirming requirements of the second federation are in compliance with the requirements of the federation.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the bylaw guardian is for:

receiving a merge request from a second bylaw guardian of a second resource federation; and

granting the merge request in response to a determination that the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are compatible.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the bylaw guardian is for:

receiving a merge request from a second bylaw guardian of a second resource federation; and

declining the merge request in response to a determination that the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are not compatible.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the bylaw guardian is for:

receiving a merge request from a second bylaw guardian of a second resource federation; and

comparing the requirements of the resource federation with requirements of the second resource federation.

8. A method, comprising:

receiving local resource information from a resource manager;

comparing the local resource information from the resource manager to requirements of a resource federation;

including the resource manager in the resource federation when the local resource information complies with the requirements of the resource federation;

excluding, or modifying participation level of, the resource manager from the resource federation when the local resource information does not comply with the requirements of the resource federation

wherein the resource manager is set as a federation hub for the resource federation;

receiving a request from the resource manager to remove the resource manager from the resource federation; and

assigning a new resource manager to manage the resource federation as a new federation hub in response to receipt of the request to remove the resource manager from the resource federation.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the requirements of the resource federation include installed software packages, configuration settings, available capacity, performance characteristics, connectivity, and availability and/or disaster recovery capabilities.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the receiving the local resource information from the resource manager and comparing are performed by a bylaw guardian of the resource federation.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the bylaw guardian is a resource manager.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a merge request from a second bylaw guardian of a second resource federation;

comparing the requirements of the resource federation with requirements of the second resource federation;

granting the merge request when the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are compatible; and

declining the merge request when the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are not compatible.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the merge request is granted when the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are compatible.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the including, excluding, and assigning are performed by a bylaw guardian of the resource federation.

15. A computer program product, embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions and executable by a processing resource to cause a network environment to:

receive local resource information from a first resource manager;

compare the local resource information from the first resource manager to requirements of a resource federation;

include the first resource manager in the resource federation when the local resource information complies with the requirements of the resource federation;

exclude the first resource manager from the resource federation when the local resource information does not comply with the requirements of the resource federation or in response to a request generated by the first resource manager to remove the first resource manager from the resource federation,

wherein the resource manager is set as a federation hub for the resource federation;

receive a request from the resource manager to remove the resource manager from the resource federation; and

assign a new resource manager to manage the resource federation as a new federation hub in response to receipt of the request to remove the resource manager from the resource federation.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the instructions to receive the local resource information and compare the local resource information form the first resource manager to requirements of the resource federation are executed by a bylaw guardian of the resource federation.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further executable to cause the network environment to:

receive a merge request from a second bylaw guardian of a second resource federation;

compare the requirements of the resource federation with requirements of the second resource federation;

grant the merge request when the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are compatible; and

decline the merge request when the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are not compatible.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the merge request is granted when the requirements of the resource federation and the requirements of the second resource federation are compatible.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the instructions to include, exclude, and assign are executed by a bylaw guardian of the resource federation.