SYSTEM AND METHOD TO UNIFORMLY MANAGE OPERATIONAL LIFE CYCLES AND SERVICE LEVELS

• US 20160197851A1
• Filed: 03/10/2016
• Published: 07/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jaisinghani, Devendra Rajkumar
• Granted Patent: US 10,374,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/203 using migration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4401 Bootstrapping security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1428 Invoice generation, e.g. customization, lay-out, database processing, algorithms for calculating the bill or formatting invoices as WWW pages invoicing in general G06Q30/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/344 Out-of-band transfers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/829 Topology based
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles

Abstract

A system and a method to manage a data center, the method including, for example, retrieving a physical topology of a service; determining from the physical topology a concrete type of a resource for the service; and selecting an actual instance of the resource in the data center. The actual instance having the concrete type and the actual instance selected such that a consumption of the actual instance does not violate at least one of a constraint and a policy.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A system comprising:

at least one processor;

a microkernel implemented by the at least one processor and configured to manage life cycle operations of a plurality of service managers, the plurality of service managers configured to manage life cycle operations for a plurality of management services and a plurality of services, the managing of the life cycle operations of the plurality of service managers including restarting a service manager of the plurality of service managers based on a detection that a performance of the service manager is in danger of not satisfying a performance metric.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of management services including at least one of a resource manager, a provisioning manager, a dispatcher, a lock manager, and a configuration manager.

4. The system of claim 2, further comprises an event system configured to transport the performance metric from managed resources to subscribed controllers included in the plurality of service managers.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the detection that the performance of the service manager is in danger of not satisfying the performance metric is based on probability derived from an analysis of the performance metric over time.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the service level objective is achievement of a key performance indicator, the key performance indicator including at least one of a response time or a throughput.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising a remedying engine configured to decrease the probability by reallocating resources associated with the plurality of services at runtime.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the remedying engine is further configured to perform the reallocating of the resources such that a cost of the resources is balanced with a benefit of satisfying the performance metric.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the reallocating is based on an accessing of a plurality of physical topologies corresponding to the plurality of service managers that are stored in a configuration repository.

10. A method comprising:

at a microkernel implemented by the at least one processor and configured to manage life cycle operations of a plurality of service managers, using a plurality of service managers to manage life cycle operations for a plurality of management services and a plurality of services, the managing of the life cycle operations of the plurality of service managers including restarting a service manager of the plurality of service managers based on a detection that a performance of the service manager is in danger of not satisfying a performance metric.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the plurality of management services including at least one of a resource manager, a provisioning manager, a dispatcher, a lock manager, and a configuration manager.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising transporting the performance metric from managed resources to subscribed controllers included in the plurality of service managers.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the detection that the performance of the service manager is in danger of not satisfying the performance metric is based on probability derived from an analysis of the performance metric over time.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the service level objective is achievement of a key performance indicator, the key performance indicator including at least one of a response time or a throughput.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising decreasing the probability by reallocating resources associated with the plurality of services at runtime.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising performing the reallocating of the resources such that a cost of the resources is balanced with a benefit of satisfying the performance metric.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the reallocating is based on an accessing of a plurality of physical topologies corresponding to the plurality of service managers that are stored in a configuration repository.

18. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

at a microkernel implemented by the at least one processor and configured to manage life cycle operations of a plurality of service managers, using a plurality of service managers to manage life cycle operations for a plurality of management services and a plurality of services, the managing of the life cycle operations of the plurality of service managers including restarting a service manager of the plurality of service managers based on a detection that a performance of the service manager is in danger of not satisfying a performance metric.

19. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the plurality of management services including at least one of a resource manager, a provisioning manager, a dispatcher, a lock manager, and a configuration manager.

20. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 18, the operations further comprising transporting the performance metric from managed resources to subscribed controllers included in the plurality of service managers.

21. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the detection that the performance of the service manager is in danger of not satisfying the performance metric is based on probability derived from an analysis of the performance metric over time.