SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE DATA COLLECTION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

• US 20100125665A1
• Filed: 11/13/2009
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Simpson, Franklin Fulton, Mousseau, Richard P., Codanda, Chinnappa, Herendeen, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,239,526 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45566 Nested virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters

Abstract

A system and method can deploy and manage software services in virtualized and non-virtualized environments. The system provides a data consumer that manages a plurality of data collectors, wherein each data collector resides on one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines in the computing environment and extracts performance data from a set of Virtual Machines running on a specific compute resource using an operating contract. The operating contract includes one or more metric descriptors, wherein each metric descriptor specifies one or more resources associated with the set of Virtual Machines. In addition, a push manager allows the data consumer to register performance data items that need to be handled, wherein the push manager calls the data consumer to process the performance data items at each time the periodic interval elapse.

Claims

1. A system for deploying and managing software services, comprising:

a computing environment that includes a plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines to which services and applications can be deployed;

a data consumer managing one or more data collectors, wherein each data collector resides on one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines in the computing environment and extract performance data from a set of Virtual Machines running on a specific compute resource using an operating contract,

wherein the operating contract includes one or more metric descriptors, each metric descriptor specifying one or more resources associated with the set of virtual machines.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the data consumer is a controller.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the operating contract also includes a collection of metric identifiers, wherein each metric identifier is associated with one metric descriptor.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

each data collector supports metrics with at least one of the following data types;

a base type;

a wrapper type; and

an aggregate type.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

one of the data collectors is a harvester that is accessed locally.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein:

the harvester collects metric data from MBeans.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

one of the data collectors is an observer that is accessed remotely.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein:

the observer is nested into a hierarchy.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein:

the observer collects metrics in one of two ways;

one-shot observation pattern and repeat observation pattern.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the data consumer accesses one of the data collectors using either a Pull model or a Push model.

11. A method for deploying and managing software services, comprising the steps of:

providing a computing environment that includes a plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines to which services and applications can be deployed;

providing a data consumer that manages a plurality of data collectors, wherein each data collector resides on one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines in the computing environment and extract performance data from a set of Virtual Machines running on a specific compute resource using an operating contract.

12. A system for deploying and managing software services, comprising:

a computing environment that includes a plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines to which services and applications can be deployed;

a data consumer managing a plurality of data collectors, wherein each data collector resides on one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines in the computing environment and extract performance data from a set of virtual machines running on a specific compute resource using an operating contract; and

a push manager that allows the data consumer to register performance data items that need to be handled at periodic intervals, wherein the push manager calls the data consumer to process the performance data items at each time the periodic interval elapses.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein:

the data consumer is a controller.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein:

the operating contract also includes a collection of metric identifiers, wherein each metric identifier is associated with one metric descriptor.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein:

each data collector supports metrics with at least one of the following data types;

a base type;

a wrapper type; and

an aggregate type.

16. The system according to claim 12, wherein:

one of the data collector is a observer that is accessed remotely.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein:

the observer is nested into a hierarchy.

18. The system according to claim 12, wherein:

the data collector resides in an Agent.

19. The system according to claim 12, wherein:

the data collector collect metrics in one of two ways;

one-shot observation pattern and repeat observation pattern.

20. A method for deploying and managing software services, comprising the steps of:

providing a computing environment that includes a plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines to which services and applications can be deployed;

providing a data consumer that manages a plurality of data collectors, wherein each data collector resides on one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines in the computing environment and extract performance data from a set of Virtual Machines running on a specific compute resource using an operating contract; and

providing a push manager that allows the data consumer to register performance data items that need to be handled at periodic intervals, wherein the push manager calls the data consumer to process the performance data items at each time the periodic interval elapses.