LOAD BALANCING COMPUTER DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD

• US 20180332105A1
• Filed: 06/27/2018
• Published: 11/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Huang, Denghui, Kang, Daxiang
• Granted Patent: US 10,171,567 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/622 Layer-2 addresses, e.g. medium access control [MAC] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/70 Virtual switches
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/103 across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/58 Caching of addresses or names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1038 Load balancing arrangements to avoid a single path through a load balancer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A computer device, a system, and a load balancing method are provided. A load balancing virtual machine is created on the computer device. When load balancing processing needs to be performed on a service of a virtual machine of the computer device, a related service packet is sent to the load balancing virtual machine of the computer device, so as to perform load balancing processing, thereby avoiding a processing delay caused by congestion of centralized load balancing. In addition, when a computer device is faulty, a virtual machine of the computer device goes offline accordingly, and a load balancing requirement is not generated any more. Therefore, when a fault of a single computer device causes a fault of a load balancing virtual machine, there is no service interruption that is caused by active/standby switchover because of the fault of the load balancing virtual machine.

Claims

1. A method for balancing load among devices, applied to a computer system that comprises at least a first computer device and a second computer device, wherein the first computer device comprises a cloud management platform, and the second computer device comprises at least one virtual machine;

the method comprising;

obtaining, by the first computer device, configuration information of a load balancer, wherein the configuration information of the load balancer comprises an identifier of the load balancer and a virtual IP address (VIP) of the load balancer;

instructing, by the first computer device, the second computer device to create the load balancer according to the configuration information;

configuring, by the first computer device, a forwarding mode of a service on the second computer device, wherein the service is initiated by the virtual machine, and wherein in the forwarding mode, a service packet of the service is forwarded to the load balancer;

receiving, by the load balancer, the service packet of the service from the virtual machine; and

selecting, by the load balancer, at least one back-end server to execute the service.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein configuring the forwarding mode of the service on the second computer device comprises:

configuring, by the first computer device, a virtual switch on the second computer device;

wherein the virtual switch is configured to send a media access control (MAC) address of the load balancer to the virtual machine and the virtual machine forwards the service packet of the service to the MAC address of the load balancer.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein sending the MAC address of the load balancer to the virtual machine comprises:

sending, by the virtual machine, a control packet to the virtual switch, wherein the control packet carries the VIP; and

sending, by the virtual switch, a response message of the control packet to the virtual machine, wherein the response message carries the MAC address of the load balancer.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein configuring the forwarding mode of the service on the second computer device comprises:

instructing, by the first computer device, the load balancer to send a media access control (MAC) address of the load balancer to the virtual machine.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein configuring the forwarding mode of the load balancing service on the second computer device comprises:

configuring, by the first computer device, a media access control (MAC) address of the load balancer on the virtual machine.

6. A method for balancing load among devices, applied to a computer system that comprises at least a first computer device and a second computer device, wherein the first computer device comprises a cloud management platform, and the second computer device comprises at least one virtual machine;

the method comprising;

obtaining, by the first computer device, configuration information of a load balancer, wherein the configuration information of the load balancer comprises an identifier of the load balancer and a virtual IP address (VIP) of the load balancer;

instructing, by the first computer device, the second computer device to create the load balancer according to the configuration information; and

configuring, by the first computer device, a forwarding mode of a service on the second computer device;

wherein the service is initiated by the virtual machine, wherein in the forwarding mode, a service packet of the service is forwarded to the load balancer, and wherein after receiving the service packet, the load balancer selects a back-end server for executing the service.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein configuring the forwarding mode of the service on the second computer device comprises:

configuring, by the first computer device, a virtual switch on the second computer device;

wherein the virtual switch is configured to send a media access control (MAC) address of the load balancer to the virtual machine, and the virtual machine forwards the service packet of the service to the MAC address of the load balancer.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein sending the MAC address of the load balancer to the virtual machine comprises:

sending, by the virtual machine, a control packet to the virtual switch, wherein the control packet carries the VIP; and

sending, by the virtual switch, a response message of the control packet to the virtual machine, wherein the response message carries the MAC address of the load balancer.

9. A computer system, comprising at least a first computer device and a second computing device, the first computer device comprises a cloud management platform, and the second computer device comprises at least one virtual machine,

wherein the first computer device is configured to:

obtain configuration information of a load balancer, wherein the configuration information of the load balancer comprises an identifier of the load balancer and a virtual IP address (VIP) of the load balancer;

instruct the second computer device to create the load balancer according to the configuration information; and

configure a forwarding mode of a service on the second computer device, wherein the service is initiated by the virtual machine, and wherein in the forwarding mode, a service packet of the service is forwarded to the load balancer;

wherein the second computer device is configured to;

provide a media access control (MAC) address of the load balancer to the virtual machine, and

enable the load balancer to select at least one back-end server for forwarding the service packet of the service from the virtual machine to the back-end server.

10. The computer system according to claim 9, wherein in configuring the forwarding mode of the service, the first computer device is configured to:

set a virtual switch on the second computer device; and

wherein the virtual switch is configured to send the MAC address of the load balancer to the virtual machine and the virtual machine is configured to forward the service packet of the service to the MAC address of the load balancer.

11. The computer system according to claim 10, wherein the virtual machine is configured to send a control packet to the virtual switch, the control packet carries the VIP;

and

wherein the virtual switch is configured to send a response message of the control packet to the virtual machine, the response message carries the MAC address of the load balancer.

12. A computer device, comprising a processor and a memory,

wherein a hypervisor runs on the computer device, the hypervisor bears a load balancer and at least one virtual machine, the load balancer provides a load balancing service for the virtual machine;

wherein the computer device is configured to;

receive configuration information of the load balancer, the configuration information of the load balancer comprises an identifier of the load balancer and a virtual IP address VIP of the load balancer;

create the load balancer according to the configuration information; and

configure a forwarding mode of the load balancing service, wherein in the forwarding mode, a service packet of a service initiated by the virtual machine is forwarded to the load balancer;

wherein the load balancer receives the service packet from the virtual machine and selects at least one back-end server to execute the service for the virtual machine.

13. The computer device according to claim 12, wherein in configuring the forwarding mode of the service, the computer device is configured to:

deploy a virtual switch;

wherein the virtual switch is configured to;

receive a control packet from the virtual machine, the a control packet carries the VIP; and

send a response message of the control packet to the virtual machine, the response message carries the MAC address of the load balancer.