Methods and Systems for Providing Deployment Architectures in Cloud Computing Environments

• US 20110213875A1
• Filed: 02/26/2010
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• 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, Riveros, Gerry Edward
• Granted Patent: US 8,255,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3442 for planning or managing the needed capacity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

A decision system for providing customized deployment architectures to users of a cloud computing environment. The decision system can identify one or more parameters for analyzing applications and processes running in a cloud, monitor the applications and processes executed in the cloud, and collect information such as usage of cloud resources, number and type of computing processes instantiated, software programs utilized by the computing processes. The decision system can then generate customized deployment architectures based on the collected information.

Claims

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

identifying at least one parameter for analyzing at least one process running in a cloud computing environment that includes a plurality of servers;

recording data associated with the at least one process and corresponding to the at least one parameter;

analyzing the recorded data based on rules for customizing deployment architectures in the cloud computing environment; and

generating one or more customized deployment architectures in the cloud computing environment based on the analysis of the recorded data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein recording data associated with the at least one process further comprises:

recording the data associated with the at least one process in a format defined using a data definition accessible to the plurality of servers in the cloud computing environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein recording data associated with the at least one process further comprises:

monitoring the at least one process for a duration of time; and

recording the data associated with the at least one process at a plurality of intervals in the duration of time.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorded data comprises resource utilization data associated with the at least one process running in the cloud computing environment.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the resource utilization data comprises processor utilization data, network bandwidth utilization data, or storage utilization data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one process runs in a first deployment architecture in the cloud computing environment, and wherein analyzing the recorded data further comprises:

analyzing the recorded data based on the rules for customizing deployment architectures in the cloud computing environment and a configuration data of the first deployment architecture.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the configuration data of the first deployment architecture comprises a number of servers, a number of processors, a network throughput, or a computer readable storage capacity.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating one or more customized deployment architectures further comprises:

generate the one or more customized deployment architecture based on a software license requirement of the at least one process.

9. A system configured to perform the method of claim 1.

10. A method for customizing a cloud computing environment, comprising:

identifying a parameter for analyzing a process running in a cloud, wherein the process is supported by a set of computing resources of the cloud;

recording data associated with the process and corresponding to the parameter;

analyzing the recorded data based on rules for customizing a configuration of the set of computing resources supporting the process; and

generating a new configuration of the set of computing resources based on the analysis of the recorded data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein recording data further comprises:

recording the data in a format defined using a data definition accessible to the set of computing resources in the cloud.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the recorded data comprises resource utilization data associated with the process running in the cloud.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the process runs in a first configuration of the set of computing resources, and wherein analyzing the recorded data further comprises:

analyzing the recorded data based on a configuration data of the first configuration of the set of computing resources.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration data comprises a number of servers, a number of processors, a network throughput, or a computer readable storage capacity.

15. A system for generating a customized cloud computing environment, comprising:

a network interface to a first set of computing resources in a cloud computing environment;

a computer readable storage medium; and

a processor communicating with the network interface and executing a deployment customization module, the deployment customization module being configured to—

identify at least one parameter for analyzing a process running in the first set of computing resources;

record data associated with the process and corresponding to the at least one parameter in the computer readable storage medium;

analyze the recorded data based on rules for customizing deployment architectures in the cloud computing environment; and

generate one or more customized deployment architectures in the cloud computing environment based on the analysis of the recorded data.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the deployment customization module is further configured to record the data associated with the process in a format defined using a data definition accessible to the first set of computing resources in the cloud computing environment.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the recorded data comprises resource utilization data associated with the process running in the first set of computing resources.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the deployment customization module is further configured to analyze the recorded data based on a configuration data of the first set of computing resources.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the configuration data comprises a number of servers, a number of processors, a network throughput, or a computer readable storage capacity.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the deployment customization module is further configured to generate the one or more customized deployment architectures based on a software license requirement associated with the process.