Organizing Data in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure

• US 20120110056A1
• Filed: 11/17/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: VAN BILJON, Willem Robert, PINKHAM, Christopher Conway, CLORAN, Russell Andrew, GORVEN, Michael Carl, HARDY, Alexandre, DIVEY, Brynmor K.B., HOOLE, Quinton Robin, KALELE, Girish
• Granted Patent: US 9,171,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2145 Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/10 Tax strategies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0236 Filtering by address, protocol, port number or service, e.g. IP-address or URL
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/66 Policy and charging system

Abstract

Organizing data in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. An authorization to service a request is received. The request may be from a user for launching an instance. In response to receiving the authorization and based on the request, an image list is determined. The image list includes information corresponding to a plurality of machine images. At least one machine image is identified from the image list associated with a functional requirement of the request. The instance is launched at the at least one computing node. The at least one machine image is updated after the instance has been launched.

Claims

1. A method of organizing data in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, the method comprising:

receiving an authorization to service a request, the request being from a user for launching an instance;

in response to receiving the authorization, determining, based on the request, an image list, the image list including information corresponding to a plurality of machine images;

identifying at least one machine image from the image list associated with a functional requirement of the request;

launching the instance at the at least one computing node; and

updating the at least one machine image after the instance has been launched.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein launching the instance includes launching an application and data associated with the request by the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information includes a version number and at least one attribute that are a reference to at least one machine image.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the request includes a launch plan defined by the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the image is an object upon which an action is to be performed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a software application from which an instance is launched.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is data accessed when an instance is launched.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of machine images includes a plurality of versions of the same image.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a default image version, when the launch plan does not specify a version of an image.

10. A method of organizing data in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, the method comprising:

receiving a launch plan from a user for launching at least one instance;

in response to receiving the launch plan, determining whether the user submitting the launch plan has permission to access at least one an image list specified in the launch plan, the at least one image list including information corresponding to a plurality of machine images;

determining whether the user has permission to launch at least one new instance of an image in that launch plan; and

rejecting the launch plan if the user does not have permission.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying a set of resource attributes included in the launch plan;

determining whether one or more of the plurality of computing nodes have capacity to meet the set of resource attributes; and

rejecting the launch plan if the set or resource attributes of the launch plan cannot be met by the one or more plurality of computing nodes.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising generating a candidate list of computing nodes based on determining whether one or more of the plurality of computing nodes have capacity to meet the set of resource attributes.

13. A method of determining a computing node to run an instance in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of nodes, the method comprising:

receiving an authorization to service a launch plan, the launch plan being from a user and including at least one image list to launch;

in response to receiving the authorization, identifying at least one tag or attribute constraining the nodes on which the instance may be launched;

searching the plurality of computing nodes based on the at least one tag to identify at least one computing node having one or more computing resources that matches at least one attribute required by the instance launch;

assigning the launch of the at least one instance to the at least one computing node based on the match; and

launching the instance on the assigned computing node.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one attribute include one from a group consisting of RAM, number of CPUs, virtual block device type, and network interface.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the match is based on a plurality of attributes of the at least one instance, and the match is conducted based on an arbitrary number of the plurality of instance attributes.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the launch plan includes a number of instances to launch, each instance to launch including at least one from a group consisting of image list specification, memory size, number of VNICs, one or more block devices, and one or more attributes.

17. A cloud computing system, comprising;

a plurality of computing nodes; and

a virtualization layer configured to create a virtual computing environment on each of the plurality of computing nodes;

the system configured to;

receive an authorization to service a launch plan, the launch plan being from a user and including at least one instance to launch,

in response to the authorization, identify at least one tag to determine at least one attribute of the at least one instance,

search the plurality of computing nodes based on the at least one tag to identify at least one computing node having one or more computing resources that matches at least one attribute of the instance,

assign the launch of the at least one instance to the at least one computing node based on the match, and

launch the instance from the assigned computing node.

18. A method of assigning a computing node to run an instance in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, the method comprising:

storing a representation of a launch plan;

comparing an actual state of the instances running in the system to the ideal state as specified in the launch plan; and

applying changes to the actual state of the system to make it consistent with the ideal state as specified in the launch plan.