IMPLEMENTING CLOUD SERVICE RESOURCE ANALYTICS FUNCTIONALITY

• US 20140280918A1
• Filed: 03/13/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Gravitant, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Grandhe, Kishor, Santhi, Fenil Raj Kumar, Sapuram, Raghunath
• Application Number:
  US14/210,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20140280918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• 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: G06Q 30/0629 for generating comparisons
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/062 related to network traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/78 Architectures of resource allocation
• 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 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device. The instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method of enabling a user to determine cloud service resource requirements of a modeled cloud service solution, deploy an actual cloud service solution having cloud service resources defined by the cloud service resource requirements of the modeled cloud service solution, and, after deploying the actual cloud service solution, access information characterizing utilization of the cloud service resources of the actual cloud service solution with respect to available capacity thereof.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method of enabling a user to:

determine cloud service resource requirements of a modeled cloud service solution;

deploy an actual cloud service solution having cloud service resources defined by the cloud service resource requirements of the modeled cloud service solution; and

after deploying the actual cloud service solution, access information characterizing utilization of the cloud service resources of the actual cloud service solution with respect to available capacity thereof.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein enabling the user to determine the cloud service resource requirements includes enabling the user to compare cloud service resources of a plurality of cloud service providers based upon a standardized resource capacity parameter that is derived dependent upon a plurality of cloud service resource parameters.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with at least two of processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth and managed services.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein enabling the user to determine the cloud service resource requirements includes enabling the user to aggregate cloud service offerings from a plurality of cloud service providers.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with at least two of processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein enabling the user to determine the cloud service resource requirements includes enabling the user to aggregate cloud service offerings from a plurality of cloud service providers.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method of enabling the user to access information comparing at last one of:

planned capacity metrics of the modeled cloud service solution to actual capacity metrics resulting from deployment of the actual cloud service solution; and

planned cost metrics of the modeled cloud service solution to actual cost metrics resulting from deployment of the actual cloud service solution.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein enabling the user to determine the cloud service resource requirements includes enabling the user to aggregate cloud service offerings from a plurality of cloud service providers.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein:

the planned capacity metrics and the actual capacity metrics each include a metric represented by a standardized resource capacity parameter that is derived dependent upon a plurality of cloud service resource parameters; and

the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with at least two of processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method of enabling a user to:

determine cloud service resource requirements of a modeled cloud service solution, wherein enabling the user to determine cloud service resource requirements includes enabling the user to assess planned resource metrics characterizing one or more deployment attributes of the modeled cloud service solution;

deploy an actual cloud service solution having cloud service resources defined by the cloud service resource requirements of the modeled cloud service solution; and

access information comparing the planned resource metrics characterizing the one or more deployment attributes of the modeled cloud service solution to actual resource metrics characterizing the one or more deployment attributes resulting from deployment of the actual cloud service solution.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the planned resource metrics and the actual resource metrics each include a metric characterizing virtual data center (VDC) utilization, a metric characterizing VDC capacity and a metric characterizing VDC cost.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the planned resource metrics and the actual resource metrics each include a metric represented by a standardized resource capacity parameter that is derived dependent upon a plurality of cloud service resource parameters.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with at least two of processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth and managed services.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein enabling the user to access information comparing the planned resource metrics to the actual resource metrics includes enabling the user to access information comparing at least one of:

planned capacity metrics of the modeled cloud service solution to actual capacity metrics resulting from deployment of the actual cloud service solution; and

planned cost metrics of the modeled cloud service solution to actual cost metrics resulting from deployment of the actual cloud service solution.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the planned capacity metrics and the actual capacity metrics each include a metric represented by a standardized resource capacity parameter that is derived dependent upon a plurality of cloud service resource parameters.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method of enabling a user to:

procure, from the one or more cloud service providers, cloud service resources fulfilling cloud service resource requirements of a virtual data center (VDC);

deploy the VDC via the one or more cloud service providers in accordance with the service resource requirements thereof; and

access information characterizing resource metrics for the VDC resulting from deployment thereof.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein the service resource requirements include a requirement defined by processor speed, a requirement defined by random access memory, a requirement defined by storage and a requirement defined by bandwidth.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein the resource metrics include a metric characterizing virtual data center (VDC) utilization, a metric characterizing VDC capacity and a metric characterizing VDC cost.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein the resource metrics include a metric represented by a standardized resource capacity parameter that is derived dependent upon a plurality of cloud service resource parameters.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with at least two of processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 wherein the cloud service resource parameters include parameters associated with processor speed, random access memory, storage and bandwidth and managed services.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein enabling a user to access the information characterizing the resource metrics includes enabling the user to display information comparing planned capacity metrics of the VDC to actual capacity metrics resulting from deployment of the VDC.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 24 wherein the planned capacity metrics and the actual capacity metrics each include a metric represented by a standardized resource capacity parameter that is derived dependent upon a plurality of cloud service resource parameters.