MANAGING A SHARED POOL OF CONFIGURABLE COMPUTING RESOURCES USING A SET OF SCALING FACTORS AND A SET OF WORKLOAD RESOURCE DATA

• US 20170024255A1
• Filed: 07/23/2015
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cropper, Joseph W., Tenner, Jeffrey W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,785,474 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5011 Pool
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a shared pool manager. The shared pool manager receives a set of scaling factors. The set of scaling factors corresponds to a workload. Using the set of scaling factor values and a set of workload resource data, a configuration is determined. The configuration is established to process the workload. Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a registry. The registry is structured to have a set of workload resource data and associated scaling factors. A set of scaling factor values is detected. The set of scaling factors corresponds to a workload. Based on both the set of workload resource data and the set of scaling factor values, a set of resource attributes is determined to configure the shared pool of configurable computing resources for the workload. The set of resource attributes is communicated.

Claims

1. A system of managing a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a shared pool manager, the system comprising:

a memory having a set of computer readable computer instructions, and

a processor for executing the set of computer readable instructions, the set of computer readable instructions including;

receiving, by the shared pool manager, a set of scaling factor values which corresponds to a workload;

determining, using the set of scaling factor values and a set of workload resource data which has information with respect to virtual machine size, a configuration for the shared pool of configurable computing resources, wherein the configuration for the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes an appropriate size for a virtual machine, and wherein using the set of scaling factor values and the set of workload resource data includes;

analyzing, to determine a proper size for the virtual machine, the set of scaling factor values with respect to the set of workload resource data;

establishing, to process the workload, the configuration of the shared pool of configurable computing resources including the virtual machine which has the appropriate size; and

processing, using the virtual machine which has the appropriate size, the workload.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a public registry includes the set of workload resource data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a nonpublic registry includes the set of workload resource data.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising storing, in the shared pool of configurable computing resources, a registry having the set of workload resource data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the configuration for the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes:

ascertaining a set of resource attributes which indicates the configuration.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein determining, using the set of scaling factor values and the set of workload resource data, the configuration for the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes:

coupling a workload identifier with a configuration flavor.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein establishing, to process the workload, the configuration of the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes a selection from a group consisting of at least one of:

providing a processing resource,

providing a memory resource,

providing a disk resource,

deploying a virtual machine,

sizing the virtual machine, or

resizing the virtual machine.

23. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, to a user, an interface to receive the set of scaling factor values; and

receiving, from the user, the set of scaling factor values.

24. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a transaction processing scaling-factor-value which indicates a number of transactions.

25. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user access scaling-factor-value which indicates a number of users.

26. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an entity storage scaling-factor-value which indicates a number of objects for storage.

27. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a scaling factor value selected from the group consisting of;

a product usage scaling-factor-value, and

a provider-defined scaling-factor-value.

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12. A system of managing a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a registry, the system comprising:

a memory having a set of computer readable computer instructions, and

a processor for executing the set of computer readable instructions, the set of computer readable instructions including;

structuring the registry to have a set of workload resource data and associated scaling factors, wherein the set of workload resource data has one or more flavors which define one or more resource configurations;

detecting a set of scaling factor values which corresponds to a workload;

determining, based on both the set of workload resource data and the set of scaling factor values, a set of resource attributes to configure the shared pool of configurable computing resources for the workload by;

mapping, using the one or more flavors of the set of workload resource data, a specific scaling-factor-value of the set of scaling factor values with a specific resource configuration of the one or more resource configurations; and

communicating the set of resource attributes.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the registry includes a public access feature.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the registry includes a nonpublic access feature.

15. The system of claim 12, further comprising receiving, by the registry, the set of workload resource data.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein determining the set of resource attributes includes:

computing, utilizing a workload estimator, the set of resource attributes.

28. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

specifying, to determine the set of resource attributes to configure the shared pool of configurable computing resources for the workload, a component selected from the group consisting of;

a processing component,

a memory component, and

a disk component.

29. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

storing, by the registry which has a database, mappings of scaling factor value ranges to component requirements.

30. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

indicating, by the set of resource attributes,

a required storage attachment technology,

a number of paths to storage for redundancy and throughput, and

a number of Input/Output Operations Per Second (TOPS).

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20. A computer program product of managing a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a shared pool manager, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving, by the shared pool manager, a set of scaling factor values which corresponds to a workload;

determining, using the set of scaling factor values and a set of workload resource data which has information with respect to virtual machine size, a configuration for the shared pool of configurable computing resources, wherein the configuration for the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes an appropriate size for a virtual machine, and wherein using the set of scaling factor values and the set of workload resource data includes;

analyzing, to determine a proper size for the virtual machine, the set of scaling factor values with respect to the set of workload resource data;

establishing, to process the workload, the configuration of the shared pool of configurable computing resources including the virtual machine which has the appropriate size; and

processing, using the virtual machine which has the appropriate size, the workload.

21. A computer program product of managing a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a registry, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

structuring the registry to have a set of workload resource data and associated scaling factors, wherein the set of workload resource data has one or more flavors which define one or more resource configurations;

detecting a set of scaling factor values which corresponds to a workload;

determining, based on both the set of workload resource data and the set of scaling factor values, a set of resource attributes to configure the shared pool of configurable computing resources for the workload by;

mapping, using the one or more flavors of the set of workload resource data, a specific scaling-factor-value of the set of scaling factor values with a specific resource configuration of the one or more resource configurations; and

communicating the set of resource attributes.

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