METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED SCALING OF CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS

• US 20100306767A1
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: DEHAAN, Michael Paul
• Application Number:
  US12/474,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20100306767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/1
• 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 9/5022 Mechanisms to release resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• 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

A cloud management system can receive rules for altering the virtual machines based on demands on the virtual machines and/or computing resources supporting the virtual machines. The cloud management system can receive data from the internal monitoring agents and/or external monitoring agents and to determine when the conditions of the rules are met. Once the conditions are met, the cloud managements system can take the appropriate action to alter the instantiated virtual machines.

Claims

1. A method of managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:

receiving a rule to alter a virtual machine instantiated on a computing system in a cloud upon an occurrence of a condition;

monitoring for the occurrence of the condition; and

altering the virtual machine upon the occurrence of the condition.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein altering the virtual machine comprises allocating or removing computing resources of the computing system supporting the virtual machine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein altering the virtual machine comprises migrating the virtual machine from the computing system to another computing system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the condition comprises at least one of demand on the virtual machine, usage of the virtual machine, demand on the computing system, and usage of the computing system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring for the condition comprises receiving data indicating the occurrence of the condition.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating an interface to receive the rule.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the rule is formatted in a text-based language.

8. A system for managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:

a network interface to a set of computing systems; and

a processor communicating with the network interface and executing a cloud management system, the cloud management system being configured to

receive a rule to alter a virtual machine instantiated on a computing system in the set of computing systems upon an occurrence of a condition;

monitor for the occurrence of the condition; and

alter the virtual machine upon the occurrence of the condition.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein altering the virtual machine comprises allocating or removing computing resources of the computing system supporting the virtual machine.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein altering the virtual machine comprises migrating the virtual machine from the computing system to another computing system in the set of computing systems.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the condition comprises at least one of demand on the virtual machine, usage of the virtual machine, demand on the computing system, and usage of the computing system.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein monitoring for the condition comprises receiving data indicating the occurrence of the condition.

13. The system of claim 8, the cloud management system being further configured to

generate an interface to receive the rule.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the rule is formatted in a text-based language.

15. A computer readable storage medium comprising instructions for causing a processing system to perform a method comprising:

receiving a rule to alter a virtual machine instantiated on a computing system in a cloud upon an occurrence of a condition;

monitoring for the occurrence of the condition; and

altering the virtual machine upon the occurrence of the condition.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein altering the virtual machine comprises allocating or removing computing resources of the computing system supporting the virtual machine.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein altering the virtual machine comprises migrating the virtual machine from the computing system to another computing system.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the condition comprises at least one of demand on the virtual machine, usage of the virtual machine, demand on the computing system, and usage of the computing system.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein monitoring for the condition comprises receiving data indicating the occurrence of the condition.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, the method further comprising:

generating an interface to receive the rule.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the rule is formatted in a text-based language.