POWER MANAGEMENT CONTROL OF REMOTE SERVERS

• US 20160202744A1
• Filed: 12/24/2015
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Castro-Leon, Enrique G.
• Granted Patent: US 10,067,547 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/329 by task scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5094 where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206
• 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: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Servers, storage medium and methods associated with control of power management services of remote servers of a remote computing service are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus to control power consumption of computer hardware may comprise a datacenter management control module to receive a request to increase capacity of a server pool from a computing device; determine an available server with available capacity that includes a power management controller to collect power consumption data for one or more of a power supply, a memory, or a processor of the available server, wherein the available server may be a remote cloud server in a different subnet than the server pool and the computing device; add or facilitate addition of the available server to the server pool; and transmit power management commands to the server added to the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the server provided with the power management commands. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus to control power consumption of computer hardware, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a datacenter management control module, to be operated on the one or more processors, to;

receive a request to increase capacity of a server pool having one or more computer servers from a computing device associated with the server pool;

determine an available server with available capacity to meet or contribute to meeting the requested capacity, and includes a power management controller to collect power consumption data for one or more of a power supply, a memory, or a processor of the available server, wherein the available server is a remote cloud server in a different subnet than the computer servers of the server pool and the computing device;

add or facilitate addition of the available server to the server pool; and

transmit power management commands to the server added to the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the server provided with the power management commands.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, where the apparatus is in the same subnet as the computer servers of the server pool and the computing device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, where the apparatus is in a different subnet as the computer servers of the server pool and the computing device.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the datacenter management control module is to transmit the power management commands to the server added to the server pool via an out-of-band communication channel.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the datacenter management control module is to transmit the power management commands to the server added to the server pool using a protocol that conforms to one or more representational state transfer constraints.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the datacenter management control module is to:

send a query for available servers and their power management capability to a database; and

receive service metadata associated with the available server in response to the query.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the database is associated with a cloud management server of a cloud data center, and the available server is associated with the cloud data center.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the database is associated with an aggregator service that aggregate cloud computing services provided by a plurality of cloud data centers;

and

wherein the available server is associated with one of a plurality cloud data centers.

9. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the datacenter management control module is also to transmit power management commands to one or more computer servers of the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the one or more computer servers of the server pool.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the datacenter management control module is to transmit the power management commands to the one or more computer servers of the server pool using an intelligent platform management interface.

11. A method for controlling power consumption of computer hardware, comprising:

receiving, by a datacenter infrastructure management controller, a request to increase capacity of a server pool having one or more computer servers from a computing device associated with the server pool;

determining, by the datacenter infrastructure management controller, an available server with available capacity to meet or contribute to meeting the requested capacity, and includes a power management controller to collect power consumption data for one or more of a power supply, a memory, or a processor of the available server, wherein the available server is a remote cloud server in a different subnet than the computing device;

adding or facilitating adding, by the datacenter infrastructure management controller, the available server to the server pool; and

transmitting, by the datacenter infrastructure management controller, power management commands to the server added to the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the server provided with the power management commands.

12. The method of claim 11, where the datacenter infrastructure management controller is disposed on a computing apparatus that is in a different subnet as the computer servers of the server pool and the computing device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the power management commands are sent to the server added to the server pool via an out-of-band communication channel;

and wherein the power management commands are sent to the server added to the server pool using a protocol that conforms to one or more representational state transfer constraints.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein determining an available server includes:

sending, by the datacenter infrastructure management controller, a query for available servers and their power management capability to a database ; and

receiving, by the datacenter infrastructure management controller, service metadata associated with the available server.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the database is associated with a cloud management server of the cloud data center, and the available server is associated with the cloud data center;

or the database is associated with an aggregator service that aggregate cloud computing services provided by a plurality of cloud data centers, and the available server is associated with one of the plurality cloud data centers.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting, by the datacenter infrastructure management controller, power management commands to one or more computer servers of the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the one or more computer servers of the server pool;

wherein the datacenter management control module is to transmit the power management commands to the one or more computer servers of the server pool using an intelligent platform management interface.

17. At least one computer-readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored therein, and configured to enable a computing apparatus, in response to execution by one or more processors of the computing apparatus, to:

receive a request to increase capacity of a server pool having one or more computer servers from a computing device associated with the server pool;

determine an available server with available capacity to contribute to the requested capacity, and includes a power management controller to collect power consumption data for one or more of a power supply, a memory, or a processor of the available server, wherein the available server is a remote cloud server in a different subnet than the computer servers of the server pool and the computing device;

add or facilitate addition of the available server to the server pool; and

transmit power management commands to the server added to the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the server.

18. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 17, where the computing apparatus is in a different subnet as the computer servers of the server pool and the computing device.

19. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions are to cause the computing apparatus to transmit the power management commands via an out-of-band communication channel.

20. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions are to cause the computing apparatus to transmit the power management commands using a protocol that conforms to one or more representational state transfer constraints.

21. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions are also to cause the computing apparatus to:

send a query for available servers and their power management capability to a database ; and

receive service metadata associated with the available server in response to the query.

22. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the database is associated with a cloud management server of a cloud data center;

and wherein the available server is associated with a cloud data center.

23. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the database is associated with an aggregator service that aggregate cloud computing services provided by a plurality of cloud data centers;

and wherein the available server is associated with one of a plurality cloud data centers.

24. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions are also to cause the computing apparatus to transmit power management commands to one or more computer servers of the server pool to at least partially control power consumption of the one or more computer servers of the server pool.

25. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the instructions are also to cause the computing apparatus to transmit the power management commands to the one or more servers of the server pool using an intelligent platform management interface.