System and method for demand oriented network resource management

• US 7,043,730 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2002
• Issued: 05/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Motoo
• Primary Examiner(s): Banankhah, Majid A.
• Application Number:
  US10/232,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20040044769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,349 Days
• Field of Search: 718/100, 718/102, 718/103, 718/104, 709/203, 709/223, 709/226, 709/228
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5014 Reservation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• 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 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A system and method is disclosed for network resource management. The method discloses: receiving a request to execute a task; calculating a virtual set of resources required to execute the task; reserving a set of network services for each virtual resource; and executing the task on the reserved services

The system discloses means of implementing the method.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for network resource management, comprising:

receiving a request to execute a task, wherein the request is received by a tasking module;

calculating a set of virtual resources required to execute the task;

generating virtual resource requests from the calculated set of virtual resources;

generating a liaison module for each virtual resource request, wherein each liaison module identifies the network resources needed to provide services for a portion of the task'"'"'s execution;

reserving a set of network services for each virtual resource; and

executing the task using the reserved services.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the calculating element includes, calculating a virtual program resource required to execute the task; and

the reserving element includes, reserving a set of program services for effecting the virtual program resource.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the calculating element includes, calculating a virtual processor resource required to execute the task; and

the reserving element includes, reserving a set of processor services for effecting the virtual processor resource.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the calculating element includes, calculating a virtual memory resource required to execute the task; and

the reserving element includes, reserving a set of memory services for effecting the virtual memory resource.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the calculating element includes, calculating a virtual 110 resource required to execute the task; and

the reserving element includes, reserving a set of 110 services for effecting the virtual I/O resource.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the reserving element includes:

reserving services on more than one network device in order to effect one of the virtual resources.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the reserving element includes:

using the liaison modules to reserve a set of services provided by devices connected to a network in order to support the virtual resource.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the using element includes:

using a program liaison module to reserve a set of program services.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the using element includes:

using a processor liaison module to reserve a set of processor services.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the using element includes:

using a memory liaison module to reserve a set of memory services.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein the using element includes:

using an I/O liaison module to reserve a set I/O services.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the reserving element includes:

receiving a set of network service responses indicating whether a network service is available to support execution of the task; and

reserving a network service if the network service'"'"'s response indicates that the network service is available.

13. The method of claim 12:

wherein the receiving element includes, receiving a network service response indicating that a network service is no longer available to support execution of the task; and

wherein the executing element includes, halting execution of the task in response to the network service'"'"'s unavailability.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the reserving element further includes:

securing another network service which can replace the unavailable network service.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

releasing the set of network service after completion of the task.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

configuring a set of network resources, hosting the set of network services, for uniform service capability.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the liaison modules comprise program liaison module for linking a program service to a corresponding virtual resource request, a processor liaison module for linking a processor service to a corresponding virtual resource request, a memory liaison module for linking a memory service to a corresponding virtual resource request, and an I/O liaison module for linking an I/O service to a corresponding virtual resource.

17. A computer system for network resource management, comprising:

means for receiving a request to execute a task;

means for calculating a virtual set of resources required to execute the task;

means for generating virtual resource requests from the calculated set of virtual resources;

means for generating liaison module for each virtual resource request, wherein each liaison module includes means for identifying the network resources needed to provide services for a portion of the task'"'"'s execution;

means for reserving a set of network services for each virtual resource; and

means for executing the task on the reserved services.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the liaison modules comprise a program liaison module for linking a program service to a corresponding virtual resource request, a processor liaison module for linking a processor service to a corresponding virtual resource request, a memory liaison module for linking a memory service to a corresponding virtual resource request, and an I/O liaison module for linking an I/O service to a corresponding virtual resource.