Systems and methods for providing capacity management of resource pools for servicing workloads

• US 8,046,767 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Rolia, Jerome, Cherkasova, Ludmila
• Primary Examiner(s): To; Jennifer
• Application Number:
  US11/742,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20080271039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,639 Days
• Field of Search: 718/104
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method comprises receiving, by a capacity management tool, a capacity management operation request that specifies a resource pool-level operation desired for managing capacity of a resource pool that services workloads. The capacity management tool determines, in response to the received request, one or more actions to perform in the resource pool for performing the requested capacity management operation in compliance with defined operational parameters of the workloads. The method further comprises performing the determined one or more actions for performing the requested capacity management operation.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a capacity management tool, a capacity management operation request that specifies a resource pool-level operation desired for managing capacity of a resource pool that services workloads, including a request to remove at least one resource from the resource pool, wherein said capacity management tool interacts with a calendar-based capacity plan, wherein said capacity management operation request is received from the calendar-based capacity plan;

determining, by the capacity management tool, in response to the received request, one or more actions to perform in the resource pool for performing the requested capacity management operation in compliance with defined operational parameters of the workloads wherein, for workloads assigned to the at least one resource to be removed from the resource pool, determining to which one or more remaining resources in the resource pool such workloads should be re-assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters; and

performing the determined one or more actions for performing the requested capacity management operation.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said determining comprises:

determining one or more resource-level actions to perform in the resource pool for accomplishing the requested capacity management operation.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said capacity management operation request further comprises:

a request to add at least one workload to the resource pool.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein in response to said request to add at least one workload to the resource pool said determining further comprises:

determining to which one or more of resources in the resource pool the at least one workload to be added to the resource pool should be assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said capacity management operation request is a persistent request.

6. Computer-executable software code stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving, utilizing a capacity management tool, a capacity management operation request that specifies a resource pool-level operation desired for managing capacity of a resource pool that services workloads, including a request to remove at least one resource from the resource pool, wherein said capacity management tool interacts with a calendar-based capacity plan, wherein said capacity management operation request is received from the calendar-based capacity plan;

determining, in response to the received request, one or more actions to perform in the resource pool for accomplishing the requested capacity management operation in compliance with defined operational parameters of the workloads wherein, for workloads assigned to the at least one resource to be removed from the resource pool, determining to which one or more remaining resources in the resource pool such workloads should be re-assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters; and

performing the determined one or more actions for accomplishing the requested capacity management operation.

7. The computer-executable software code of claim 6 wherein said capacity management operation request further comprises:

a request to add at least one workload to the resource pool.

8. The computer-executable software code of claim 7 wherein in response to said request to add at least one workload to the resource pool said determining further comprises:

determining to which one or more of resources in the resource pool the at least one workload to be added to the resource pool should be assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters.

9. The computer-executable software code of claim 6 wherein said receiving comprises receiving any one or more capacity management operation request selected from the following:

request to determine resource pool capacity needed to support a number of workloads, request to add a workload to the resource pool, request to remove a workload from the resource pool, request to add capacity to the resource pool, request to rebalance workloads across resources in the pool, and request for new workload placements within the resource pool that will reduce the load on at least one specified resource in the pool.

10. A system comprising:

a resource pool comprising a plurality of computing resources for servicing workloads;

a capacity management tool including computer executable instructions stored to a non-transitory computer readable medium that are executed by a processor to receive a capacity management operation request that specifies a resource pool-level operation desired for managing capacity of the resource pool, including a request to remove at least one resource from the resource pool, wherein said capacity management tool interacts with a calendar-based capacity plan, wherein said capacity management operation request is received from the calendar-based capacity plan;

said capacity management tool operable to determine, in response to the received request, one or more actions to perform in the resource pool for accomplishing the resource pool-level operation specified by the requested capacity management operation in compliance with defined operational parameters of the workloads wherein, for workloads assigned to the at least one resource to be removed from the resource pool, determining to which one or more remaining resources in the resource pool such workloads should be re-assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein said capacity management tool is further operable to perform at least one of the following:

autonomously perform the determined one or more actions for accomplishing the resource pool-level operation specified by the requested capacity management operation, and

output information identifying the determined one or more actions.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein said capacity management pool is operable to receive any one or more capacity management operation request selected from the following:

request to determine resource pool capacity needed to support a number of workloads, request to add a workload to the resource pool, request to remove a workload from the resource pool, request to add capacity to the resource pool, request to rebalance workloads across resources in the pool, and request for new workload placements within the resource pool that will reduce the load on at least one specified resource in the pool.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein said capacity management operation request further comprises:

a request to add at least one workload to the resource pool.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein, in response to said request to add said at least one workload to the resource pool, said capacity management tool is operable to determine to which one or more of resources in the resource pool the at least one workload to be added to the resource pool should be assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters.