MANAGING A WORKLOAD OF A PLURALITY OF VIRTUAL SERVERS OF A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20120110164A1
• Filed: 11/02/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Frey, Jeffrey A., Shah, Hiren R., Yocom, Peter B.
• Granted Patent: US 8,959,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• 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

An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A computer program product for managing resources with a computing environment, said computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

defining a workload of the computing environment, the workload comprising a plurality of virtual servers of one or more computing systems, the plurality of virtual servers supporting an application; and

managing the workload based on a policy applied to the workload.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the plurality of virtual servers comprises one or more virtual servers executed by one computing system of the one or more computing systems, said one computing system having a first system architecture, and the plurality of virtual servers comprising one or more other virtual servers executed by another computing system of the one or more computing systems, the another computing system having a second system architecture.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the another computing system comprises a blade extension.

8. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the managing comprises monitoring state of one or more resources used in one or more virtual servers of the plurality of virtual servers to determine compliance of the plurality of virtual servers with the policy.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the managing further comprises adjusting at least one of allocation of at least one resource of the one or more resources or use of at least one resource of the one or more resources, responsive to the monitoring indicating non-compliance with the policy.

10. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the managing comprises:

determining, based on the policy, whether an amount of a resource used by one or more virtual servers of the workload is to be adjusted; and

adjusting the amount of the resource, responsive to the determining indicating that the amount is to be adjusted.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the adjusting comprises adjusting an amount of central processing unit resources used by the one or more virtual servers.

12. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the policy comprises a performance policy, and wherein the managing comprises monitoring one or more virtual servers of the plurality of virtual servers to determine compliance with the performance policy.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the managing comprises adjusting one or more resources of at least one virtual server of the plurality of virtual servers, responsive to the monitoring indicating non-compliance with the performance policy.

14. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the managing comprises managing the workload across an ensemble of computing systems, said ensemble comprising one computing system of one architecture and another computing system of another architecture different from the one architecture.

15. A computer system for managing resources with a computing environment, said computer system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor in communications with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, said method comprising;

defining a workload of the computing environment, the workload comprising a plurality of virtual servers of one or more computing systems, the plurality of virtual servers supporting an application; and

managing the workload based on a policy applied to the workload.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the plurality of virtual servers comprises one or more virtual servers executed by one computing system of the one or more computing systems, said one computing system having a first system architecture, and the plurality of virtual servers comprising one or more other virtual servers executed by another computing system of the one or more computing systems, the another computing system having a second system architecture.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the managing comprises monitoring state of one or more resources used in one or more virtual servers of the plurality of virtual servers to determine compliance of the plurality of virtual servers with the policy.

18. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the managing further comprises adjusting at least one of allocation of at least one resource of the one or more resources or use of at least one resource of the one or more resources, responsive to the monitoring indicating non-compliance with the policy.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the managing comprises:

determining, based on the policy, whether an amount of a resource used by one or more virtual servers of the workload is to be adjusted; and

adjusting the amount of the resource, responsive to the determining indicating that the amount is to be adjusted.

20. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the policy comprises a performance policy, and wherein the managing comprises monitoring one or more virtual servers of the plurality of virtual servers to determine compliance with the performance policy.

21. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the managing comprises managing the workload across an ensemble of computing systems, said ensemble comprising one computing system of one architecture and another computing system of another architecture different from the one architecture.

22. A method of managing resources with a computing environment, said method comprising:

defining a workload of the computing environment, the workload comprising a plurality of virtual servers of one or more computing systems, the plurality of virtual servers supporting an application; and

managing the workload based on a policy applied to the workload.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the managing comprises monitoring state of one or more resources used in one or more virtual servers of the plurality of virtual servers to determine compliance of the plurality of virtual servers with the policy.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the managing comprises managing the workload across an ensemble of computing systems, said ensemble comprising one computing system of one architecture and another computing system of another architecture different from the one architecture.