TOOL FOR MANAGING COMPUTER RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURES AND NETWORKS

• US 20160315817A1
• Filed: 06/30/2016
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc. (F5 Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc. (F5 Incorporated)
• Inventors: Primet, Pascale Vicat-Blanc, Koslovski, Guilherme
• Application Number:
  US15/199,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20160315817A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0895 Configuration of virtualised networks or elements, e.g. virtualised network function or OpenFlow elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/122 of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation [NFV]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/808 User-type aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 Collecting or measuring resource availability data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/826 Involving periods of time
• 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: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

A tool for aiding utilization of communicating equipment includes a resources manager associated with a data structure where an equipment identifier is connected with dated values of utilizable global functional capability of the resource, and dated values of temporarily allocated functional capability. A scheduling tool evaluates an acceptance condition by comparing dates which pertain to a dated functional capability and to the dated series of functional capability maintained in connection with one or more resource identifiers. A resources allocator receives an identified request for temporary reservation of functional capabilities, including a dated suite of functional data, it responds thereto by calling a resources selector for each functional data item of the request, the scheduling tool for some at least of the identifiers of the subset returned by the resources selector; and by returning a set of resource identifiers as response to the reservation request.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A virtual infrastructure computing device, the device comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory coupled to the processor which is configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to;

receive a request for creation of a Virtual Private eXecution Infrastructure (VPXI) object, the request comprising requested functional capacity data indicating resources required by the VPXI object;

determine a resource status of a data structure, the data structure associated with one or more physical resources and the resource status comprising available functional capacity data;

compare the requested functional capacity data to the available functional capacity data; and

create the VPXI object in the data structure when the comparison of the requested functional capacity data to the available functional capacity data indicates that the data structure has sufficient capacity for creation of the VPXI object.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the request further comprises geographic location data, or scheduling availability data.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

compare the geographic location data to geographic identifier data in the data structure;

create the VPXI object when the geographic location data is the same as the geographic identifier data.

14. The device according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

compare the scheduling availability data to scheduling identifier data in the data structure;

create the VPXI object when the scheduling identifier data indicates that the data structure is available for creation of the VPXI object no later than a creation date in the scheduling identifier data.

15. The device according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

create a VPXI table for the VPXI object, the VPXI table comprising object identifier data, user identifier data, resource identifier data, or VPXI topology data; and

create a virtual node linking the VPXI object to the data structure based on the VPXI table.

16. The device according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

restrict user access to the data structure when the VPXI object is being created, wherein access is restored upon completion of the VPXI object.

17. A method for virtual infrastructure management, the method comprising:

receiving, by a virtual infrastructure computing device, a request for creation of a Virtual Private eXecution Infrastructure (VPXI) object, the request comprising requested functional capacity data indicating resources required by the VPXI object;

determining, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, a resource status of a data structure, the data structure associated with one or more physical resources and the resource status comprising available functional capacity data;

comparing, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, the requested functional capacity data to the available functional capacity data; and

creating, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, the VPXI object in the data structure when the comparison of the requested functional capacity data to the available functional capacity data indicates that the data structure has sufficient capacity for creation of the VPXI object.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the request further comprises geographic location data, or scheduling availability data.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

comparing, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, the geographic location data to geographic identifier data in the data structure;

creating, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, the VPXI object when the geographic location data is the same as the geographic identifier data.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

comparing, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, the scheduling availability data to scheduling identifier data in the data structure;

creating, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, the VPXI object when the scheduling identifier data indicates that the data structure is available for creation of the VPXI object no later than a creation date in the scheduling identifier data.

21. The method according to claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

creating, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, a VPXI table for the VPXI object, the VPXI table comprising object identifier data, user identifier data, resource identifier data, or VPXI topology data; and

creating, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, a virtual node linking the VPXI object to the data structure based on the VPXI table.

22. The method according to claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

restricting, by the virtual infrastructure computing device, user access to the data structure when the VPXI object is being created, wherein access is restored upon completion of the VPXI object.

23. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for virtual infrastructure management comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one processor, causes the processor to perform steps comprising:

receiving a request for creation of a Virtual Private eXecution Infrastructure (VPXI) object, the request comprising requested functional capacity data indicating resources required by the VPXI object;

determining a resource status of a data structure, the data structure associated with one or more physical resources and the resource status comprising available functional capacity data;

comparing the requested functional capacity data to the available functional capacity data; and

creating the VPXI object in the data structure when the comparison of the requested functional capacity data to the available functional capacity data indicates that the data structure has sufficient capacity for creation of the VPXI object.

24. The medium according to claim 23, wherein the request further comprises geographic location data, or scheduling availability data.

25. The medium according to claim 24, further having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform steps further comprising:

comparing the geographic location data to geographic identifier data in the data structure;

creating the VPXI object when the geographic location data is the same as the geographic identifier data.

26. The medium according to claim 23, further having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform steps further comprising:

comparing the scheduling availability data to scheduling identifier data in the data structure;

creating the VPXI object when the scheduling identifier data indicates that the data structure is available for creation of the VPXI object no later than a creation date in the scheduling identifier data.

27. The medium according to claim 23, further having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform steps further comprising:

creating a VPXI table for the VPXI object, the VPXI table comprising object identifier data, user identifier data, resource identifier data, or VPXI topology data; and

creating a virtual node linking the VPXI object to the data structure based on the VPXI table.

28. The medium according to claim 23, further having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform steps further comprising:

restricting user access to the data structure when the VPXI object is being created, wherein access is restored upon completion of the VPXI object.