BATCH SCHEDULER MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES

• US 20130219385A1
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Geibel, Jonathan Eric, Jordan, Jeffrey M., Burris, Scott Lane, Constantine, Kevin Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,946,563 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration

Abstract

A batch scheduler receives a task. Further, a processor, at the batch scheduler, generates a virtual machine corresponding to the task. In addition, the virtual machine is deployed from the batch scheduler to a compute node. The task is also dispatched from the batch scheduler to the virtual machine at the compute node.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage device having a computer readable program stored thereon, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

receive a task at a batch scheduler;

generate, at the batch scheduler, a virtual machine corresponding to the task;

deploy the virtual machine from the batch scheduler to a compute node; and

dispatch the task from the batch scheduler to the virtual machine at the compute node.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the compute node is a computing device.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer is further caused to generate the virtual machine according to an operating system that is compatible with the compute node.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer is further caused to select the compute node based upon availability of resources for processing the task.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the batch scheduler receives, from a virtual machine monitoring module that monitors the virtual machine at the compute node, an indication of a change of a resource requirement.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the batch scheduler receives, from a hypervisor monitoring module that monitors a hypervisor running at the compute node, global system information of the compute node.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the batch scheduler pauses the virtual machine.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the batch scheduler allocates additional resources to the virtual machine and resumes the virtual machine without a loss of work performed by the virtual machine.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the batch scheduler moves the virtual machine to an additional compute node and resumes the virtual machine at the additional compute node without any loss of work performed by the virtual machine.

10. A method comprising:

receiving a task at a batch scheduler;

generating with a processor, at the batch scheduler, a virtual machine corresponding to the task;

deploying the virtual machine from the batch scheduler to a compute node; and

dispatching the task from the batch scheduler to the virtual machine at the compute node.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the compute node is a computing device.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating the virtual machine according to an operating system that is compatible with the compute node.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising selecting the compute node based upon availability of resources for processing the task.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the batch scheduler receives, from a virtual machine monitoring module that monitors the virtual machine at the compute node, an indication of a change of a resource requirement.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the batch scheduler receives, from a hypervisor monitoring module that monitors a hypervisor running at the compute node, global system information of the compute node.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the batch scheduler pauses the virtual machine.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the batch scheduler allocates additional resources to the virtual machine and resumes the virtual machine without a loss of work performed by the virtual machine.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the batch scheduler moves the virtual machine to an additional compute node and resumes the virtual machine at the additional compute node without any loss of work performed by the virtual machine.

19. A system comprising:

a batch scheduler configured to receive a task, generate a virtual machine corresponding to the task, deploy the virtual machine to a compute node, and dispatch the task to the virtual machine at the compute node.

20. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage device having a computer readable program stored thereon, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

receive, at a compute node, a virtual machine from a batch scheduler;

receive, at the compute node, a task from the batch scheduler, the task corresponding to the virtual machine; and

provide, at the compute node, resources to the virtual machine to process the task.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the compute node is a computing device.

22. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the compute node sends, from a virtual machine monitoring module that monitors the virtual machine at the compute node, an indication of a change of a resource requirement to the batch scheduler.

23. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the compute node sends, from a hypervisor monitoring module that monitors a hypervisor running at the compute node, global system information of the compute node to the batch scheduler.

24. A method comprising:

receiving, at a compute node, a virtual machine from a batch scheduler;

receiving, at the compute node, a task from the batch scheduler, the task corresponding to the virtual machine; and

providing, at the compute node, resources to the virtual machine to process the task.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the compute node is a computing device.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the compute node sends, from a virtual machine monitoring module that monitors the virtual machine at the compute node, an indication of a change of a resource requirement to the batch scheduler.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the compute node sends, from a hypervisor monitoring module that monitors a hypervisor running at the compute node, global system information of the compute node to the batch scheduler.

28. A system comprising:

a processor;

a reception module that receives, at a compute node, a virtual machine from a batch scheduler and a task from the batch scheduler, the task corresponding to the virtual machine; and

a processor that provides, at the compute node, resources to the virtual machine to process the task.