Load Balancing Workload Groups

• US 20120297068A1
• Filed: 04/16/2012
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Arrowood, Andrew H., Fitzpatrick, Michael G., McAfee, Gary O.
• Granted Patent: US 8,959,226 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

A method for managing requests. The requests are received by a workload manager system to perform operations on data. A set of server applications is identified by the workload manager system to perform the operations in the requests based on a set of common resources used by the set of server applications. The set of server applications is in a workload group and the workload group is comprised of a plurality of application groups.

Claims

1. A method for managing requests, the method comprising:

receiving, by a workload manager system, the requests to perform operations on data; and

identifying, by the workload manager system, a set of server applications to perform the operations in the requests based on a set of common resources used by the set of server applications, wherein the set of server applications is in a workload group and the workload group is comprised of a plurality of application groups.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending, by the workload manager system, the requests to the set of server applications identified for the requests.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending, by a load balancer, the requests to the set of server applications identified for the requests by the workload manager system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying, by the workload manager system, the set of server applications to perform the operations in the requests based on the set of common resources used by the set of server applications comprises:

identifying, by the workload manager system, a type of server application to perform an operation for a request in the requests; and

identifying, by the workload manager system, a server application based on the type of server application identified to perform the operation in the request and a common resource on which the operation is performed.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a policy is used to identify the set of server applications to perform the operations in the requests based on the set of common resources used by the set of server applications and the policy sends the requests to the set of server applications accessing the set of common resources in which the requests are received during a session.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of common resources comprises at least one of a set of data sources, hardware, and a set of computer systems on which the set of server applications is located.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of common resources is selected from one of hardware resources and data sources.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the requests are for a website.

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