METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITE NODE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT THROUGH SDI PARTITIONS

• US 20180026849A1
• Filed: 07/20/2017
• Published: 01/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Daniel Rivas Barragan, Francesc Guim Bernat, Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu, Slawomir Putyrski, Susanne M. Balle
• Inventors: GUIM BERNAT, FRANCESC, BALLE, SUSANNE M., RIVAS BARRAGAN, DANIEL, LEUNG, JOHN CHUN KWOK, PRABHAKARAN, SURAJ, NACHIMUTHU, MURUGASAMY K., PUTYRSKI, SLAWOMIR
• Granted Patent: US 11,444,866 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2282 Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/16 using machine learning or artificial intelligence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5025 by proactively reacting to service quality change, e.g. by reconfiguration after service quality degradation or upgrade
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0858 One way delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0894 Packet rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/722 at the destination endpoint, e.g. reservation of terminal resources or buffer space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction
• 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 67/1031 : Controlling of the operation of servers by a load balancer, e.g. adding or removing servers that serve requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 : involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/20 : using a distributed architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 : Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

Techniques for managing static and dynamic partitions in software-defined infrastructures (SDI) are described. An SDI manager component may include one or more processor circuits to access one or more resources. The SDI manager component may include a partition manager to create one or more partitions using the one or more resources, the one or more partitions each including a plurality of nodes of a similar resource type. The SDI manager may generate an update to a pre-composed partition table, stored within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including the created one or more partitions, and receive a request from an orchestrator for a node. The SDI manager may select one of the created one or more partitions to the orchestrator based upon the pre-composed partition table, and identify the selected partition to the orchestrator. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A software-defined infrastructure (SDI) system, comprising:

an SDI manager component, including one or more processor circuits to access one or more resources, the SDI manager component including a partition manager to;

create one or more partitions using the one or more resources, the one or more partitions each including a plurality of nodes of a similar resource type;

generate an update to a pre-composed partition table, stored within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including the created one or more partitions;

receive a request from an orchestrator for a node;

selecting one of the created one or more partitions to the orchestrator based upon the pre-composed partition table; and

identifying the selected partition to the orchestrator.

2. The SDI system of claim 1, the partition manager to receive an instruction from the orchestrator to create a partition prior to the orchestrator running an application.

3. The SDI system of claim 1, the one or more partitions are created based upon user-defined settings stored within the SDI system.

4. The SDI system of claim 3, wherein the one or more partitions are created at boot time.

5. The SDI system of claim 1, wherein the one or more partitions are created based upon a dynamically generated instruction from the orchestrator.

6. The SDI system of claim 5, wherein the dynamically generated instruction is based upon detected demand within the SDI system for nodes of a type that are not available in existing partitions.

7. The SDI system of claim 2, wherein the instruction to create a partition indicates that an existing partition should be extended.

8. The SDI system of claim 2, wherein the instruction to create a partition indicates that an existing partition should be reduced in size.

9. The SDI system of claim 1, wherein the orchestrator runs an application on the identified partition.

10. The SDI system of claim 1, wherein the partition manager to:

receive an instruction to create a partition using the one or more remote resources; and

update an orchestrator of the SDI system indicating that the partition has been created.

11. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

creating one or more partitions using the one or more resources, the one or more partitions each including a plurality of nodes of a similar resource type;

generating an update to a pre-composed partition table, stored within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including the created one or more partitions;

receiving a request from an orchestrator for a node;

selecting one of the created one or more partitions to the orchestrator based upon the pre-composed partition table; and

identifying the selected partition to the orchestrator.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving an instruction from the orchestrator to create a partition prior to the orchestrator running an application.

13. The method of claim 11, the one or more partitions are created based upon user-defined settings stored within the SDI system.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the request from the orchestrator for a node identifies a resource type.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more partitions are created based upon a dynamically generated instruction from the orchestrator.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the dynamically generated instruction is based upon detected demand within the SDI system for nodes of a type that are not available in existing partitions within the pre-composed partition table.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the instruction to create a partition indicates that an existing partition should be extended.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the instruction to create a partition indicates that an existing partition should be reduced in size.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the orchestrator runs an application on the identified partition.

20. The method of claim 11, the partition manager to further:

receive an instruction to create a partition using the one or more remote resources; and

communicate to the orchestrator that the partition has been created.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by processing circuitry of a software-defined infrastructure (SDI) system, the instructions to cause a SDI manager component of the SDI system to:

create one or more partitions using the one or more resources, the one or more partitions each including a plurality of nodes of a similar resource type;

generate an update to a pre-composed partition table, stored within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including the created one or more partitions;

receive a request from an orchestrator for a node;

select one of the created one or more partitions to the orchestrator based upon the pre-composed partition table; and

identify the selected partition to the orchestrator.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, further comprising receiving an instruction from the orchestrator to create a partition prior to the orchestrator running an application.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, the one or more partitions are created based upon user-defined settings stored within the SDI system.

24. A software-defined infrastructure (SDI) system, comprising:

means for creating one or more partitions using the one or more resources, the one or more partitions each including a plurality of nodes of a similar resource type;

means for generating an update to a pre-composed partition table, stored within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including the created one or more partitions;

means for receiving a request from an orchestrator for a node;

means for selecting one of the created one or more partitions to the orchestrator based upon the pre-composed partition table; and

means for identifying the selected partition to the orchestrator.

25. The system of claim 24, further comprising means for receiving an instruction from the orchestrator to create a partition prior to the orchestrator running an application.