SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MARKETPLACE BROKERAGE EXCHANGE OF EXCESS SUBSCRIBED RESOURCES USING DYNAMIC SUBSCRIPTION PERIODS

• US 20120221454A1
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Morgan, Christopher Edwin
• Application Number:
  US13/037,351
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221454A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5014 Reservation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/504 Resource capping
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a marketplace brokerage exchange of excess subscribed resources using dynamic subscription periods. A set of aggregate usage history data can record consumption of processor, software, or other resources subscribed to by a set of users, in one cloud or across multiple clouds. An entitlement engine can analyze the usage history data to identify a subscription margin for the subscribed resources, reflecting collective under-consumption of resources by the set of users on a collective basis, over different and/or dynamically updated subscription periods. In aspects, the set of estimated resource contributions of different users can be aggregated over one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals to generated a bundled brokerage resource tender, in which the processor, operating system, and/or other resources of multiple users are combined to be offered to a cloud marketplace for one or more contribution interval. The bundled resource offer can be structured to contain at least a threshold amount of resources over a minimum or other defined contribution interval, after which resources are released back to the contributing users.

Claims

1. A method of brokering cloud resources, comprising:

accessing a set of aggregate usage history data for a set of users each operating a set of machines consuming a set of resources in at least one host cloud;

generating a set of short-term consumption margins for each user in the set of users based on the consumption of the set of resources over one or more short-term consumption periods in the at least one host cloud;

identifying a short-term user-aggregated excess capacity value based on the set of short-term consumption margins for the set of resources of each user representing excess capacity;

generating a resource brokerage bundle based on the short-term user-aggregated excess capacity value of the set of resources of the users;

transmitting the resource brokerage bundle to a set of marketplace clouds; and

receiving a brokerage response message from the set of marketplace clouds indicating an acceptance or rejection of the resource brokerage bundle to support one or more of the set of marketplace clouds.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more short-term consumption periods for at least one of the set of users is dynamically updated based on the short-term consumption margins for the at least one user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the one or more short-term consumption periods for each user are the same.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the one or more short-term consumption periods for each user are different.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising combining the different consumption periods to produce one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising restoring the resources in the selected resource brokerage bundle to the respective contributing users upon completion of the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals comprises different intervals of respective users which are combined to produce the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource brokerage bundle comprises an offer to provide a percentage of the excess capacity value of the resources contributed by the respective users.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals comprise a set of intervals of the same length starting at different times.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals comprise a set of intervals of different lengths starting at different times.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein the resource brokerage bundle comprises a combined excess capacity for a set of resources aggregated to reach a minimum resource contribution threshold for the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of resources comprises at least one of operating system instances, software application instances, virtual machine instances, virtual appliance instances, processor resources, memory resources, storage resources, communications resources, or user-subscribed services.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising metering the set of contributed resources to generate a compensation value for the users contributing resources to the set of marketplace clouds.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising establishing a set of failover resources for at least one user in the set of users in the event that the set of short-term consumption margins increases to eliminate the excess capacity of the resource contributed by the at least one user.

15. A system for brokering cloud resources, comprising:

an interface to a data store, the data store storing a set of aggregate usage history data for a set of users operating a set of machines consuming a set of resources in a set of host clouds; and

a processor, communicating with the data store via the interface, the processor being configured to—

access the set of aggregate usage history data,

generate a set of short-term consumption margins for each user in the set of users based on the consumption of the set of resources over one or more short-term consumption periods in the at least one host cloud,

identify a short-term user-aggregated excess capacity value based on the set of short-term consumption margins for the set of resources of each user representing excess capacity,

generate a resource brokerage bundle based on the short-term user-aggregated excess capacity value of the set of resources of the users,

transmit the resource brokerage bundle to a set of marketplace clouds, and

receive a brokerage response message from the set of marketplace clouds indicating an acceptance or rejection of the resource brokerage bundle to support one or more of the set of marketplace clouds.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the one or more short-term consumption periods for at least one of the set of users is dynamically updated based on the short-term consumption margins for the at least one user.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein at least some of the one or more short-term consumption periods for each user are the same.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein at least some of the one or more short-term consumption periods for each user are different,

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to combine the different consumption periods to produce one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the process is further configured to restore the resources in the selected resource brokerage bundle to the respective contributing users upon completion of the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals comprises different intervals of respective users which are combined to produce the one or more dynamic resource contribution intervals.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein the resource brokerage bundle comprises an offer to provide a percentage of the excess capacity value of the resources contributed by the respective users.