AUTOMATED EXPLOITATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE MODIFICATIONS

• US 20160179561A1
• Filed: 08/20/2015
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: George, Manu T., Surampalli, Murali K.
• Granted Patent: US 9,569,269 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45591 Monitoring or debugging support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45545 Guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself, e.g. VirtualBox
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• 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 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
• 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 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

At least one application in a distributed computing environment is deployed. At least one resource of a virtual machine is provided to the at least one application in the distributed computing environment. The at least one resource of the virtual machine provided is recorded in metadata and the at least one application receives the metadata and using the metadata the at least one application determines how much of the at least one resource of the virtual machine to utilize. A change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine is determined. Responsive to determining the change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine, the metadata is modified. The at least one application uses the modified metadata to determine how much of the changed at least one resource of the virtual machine to use.

Claims

1. A method for automated exploitation of virtual machine resource modifications, the method comprising:

deploying, by one or more computer processors, at least one application in a distributed computing environment;

providing, by one or more computer processors, at least one resource of a virtual machine to the at least one application in the distributed computing environment, wherein the at least one resource of the virtual machine provided is recorded in metadata and the at least one application receives the metadata and using the metadata, the at least one application determines how much of the at least one resource of the virtual machine to utilize;

determining, by one or more computer processors, a change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine; and

responsive to determining the change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine, modifying, by one or more computer processors, the metadata, wherein the at least one application uses the modified metadata to determine how much of the changed at least one resource of the virtual machine to utilize.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one resource is at least one of:

central processing unit, memory, persistent storage, input device, and output device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one application is at least one of:

an application in a platform as a service environment, an application in a software as a service environment, and an application in an infrastructure as a service offering.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deploying, by one or more computer processors, another application in the distributed computing environment;

providing, by one or more computer processors, at least one resource of a second virtual machine to the another application in the distributed computing environment, wherein the at least one resource of the second virtual machine provided is recorded in a second metadata and the another application receives the second metadata and using the second metadata the another application determines how much of the at least one resource of the second virtual machine to utilize;

responsive to modifying the metadata, modifying, by one or more computer processors, the second metadata; and

responsive to modifying the second metadata, providing, by one or more computer processors, the at least one resource of the second virtual machine to the another application in the distributed computing environment, wherein the another application receives the modified second metadata and using the modified second metadata the another application determines how much of the at least one resource of the second virtual machine to utilize.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine is one of:

an increase to the at least one resource of the virtual machine or a decrease to the at least one resource of the virtual machine.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata contains information about each application of the at least one application deployed in the distributed computing environment and information on how the at least one application interacts with the at least one resource of the virtual machine in the distributed computing environment.