SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMBEDDING A CLOUD-BASED RESOURCE REQUEST IN A SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE WRAPPER

• US 20100131649A1
• Filed: 11/26/2008
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: FERRIS, JAMES MICHAEL
• Granted Patent: US 8,782,233 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for embedding a cloud-based resource request in a specification language wrapper. In embodiments, a set of applications and/or a set of appliances can be registered to be instantiated in a cloud-based network. Each application or appliance can have an associated set of specified resources with which the user wishes to instantiate those objects. For example, a user may specify a maximum latency for input/output of the application or appliance, a geographic location of the supporting cloud resources, a processor throughput, or other resource specification to instantiate the desired object. According to embodiments, the set of requested resources can be embedded in a specification language wrapper, such as an XML object. The specification language wrapper can be transmitted to a marketplace to seek the response of available clouds which can support the application or appliance according to the specifications contained in the specification language wrapper.

Claims

1. A method of generating a cloud-based resource request, comprising:

generating a request for cloud-based resources for at least one of an application and a software appliance;

embedding the request for cloud-based resources in a specification language wrapper; and

transmitting the embedded request for cloud-based resources and specification language wrapper to a management server to select at least one cloud-based network to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for cloud-based resources comprises a request that is part of an instantiation of the at least one of the application and appliance.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the specification language wrapper comprises an extensible markup language (XML) wrapper.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for cloud-based resources comprises a request for at least one of a set of specified applications, an operating system, processor cycles, memory allocation, input/output (I/O) bandwidth, minimum uptime, instantiation schedule, subscription cost, network latency, and service level agreement.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the management server selects at least one cloud-based network to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources based on at least a closest match to the specified cloud-based resources.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the management server selects a plurality of cloud-based networks to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the management server updates the selection of the at least one cloud-based network.

8. A network management system, comprising;

a first interface to a set of cloud-based networks;

a second interface to at least one of an application and a software appliance; and

a management server, communicating with the set of cloud-based networks via the first interface and the at least one of an application and a software appliance via the second interface, the management server being configured to—

receive a request for cloud-based resources for the at least one of an application and a software appliance, the request for cloud-based resources being embedded in a specification language wrapper, and

select at least one cloud-based network to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources.

9. The network management system of claim 8, wherein the request for cloud-based resources comprises a request that is part of an instantiation of the at least one of the application and appliance.

10. The network management system of claim 8, wherein the specification language wrapper comprises an extensible markup language (XML) wrapper.

11. The network management system of claim 8, wherein the request for cloud-based resources comprises a request for at least one of a set of specified applications, an operating system, processor cycles, memory allocation, input/output (I/O) bandwidth, minimum uptime, instantiation schedule, subscription cost, network latency, and service level agreement.

12. The network management system of claim 8, wherein the management server selects at least one cloud-based network to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources based on at least a closest match to the specified cloud-based resources.

13. The network management system of claim 8, wherein the management server selects a plurality of cloud-based networks to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources.

14. The network management system of claim 8, wherein the management server updates the selection of the at least one cloud-based network.

15. An instantiated object, the instantiated object being generated by a method of:

generating a request for cloud-based resources for the instantiated object;

embedding the request for cloud-based resources in a specification language wrapper;

transmitting the embedded request for cloud-based resources and specification language wrapper to a management server to select at least one cloud-based network to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources; and

instantiating the object using supplied cloud-based resources from the at least one cloud-based network.

16. The instantiated object of claim 15, wherein the instantiated object comprises at least one of an application and appliance.

17. The instantiated object of claim 15, wherein the specification language wrapper comprises an extensible markup language (XML) wrapper.

18. The instantiated object of claim 15, wherein the request for cloud-based resources comprises a request for at least one of a set of specified applications, an operating system, processor cycles, memory allocation, input/output (I/O) bandwidth, minimum uptime, instantiation schedule, subscription cost, network latency, and service level agreement.

19. The instantiated object of claim 15, wherein the management server selects at least one cloud-based network to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources based on at least a closest match to the specified cloud-based resources.

20. The instantiated object of claim 15, wherein the management server selects a plurality of cloud-based networks to supply at least one of the requested cloud-based resources.