Method and Apparatus to Elastically Modify Size of a Resource Pool

• US 20140351429A1
• Filed: 05/27/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Connectloud, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Connectloud, Inc.
• Inventors: Madani, Habib, Siddiqui, Sameer, Azizullah, Faisal, Ashraf, Adnan
• Application Number:
  US14/287,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351429A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

analysis of usage rate and historical usage patterns of a resource pool; and

elastic modification of a resource pool size that is proactive.

2. An apparatus,

comprising:

a resource pool

controller;

and

a software platform that can intelligently modify the resource pool size.