Resource equalization for inter- and intra- data center operations

• US 8,171,115 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2008
• Issued: 05/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hamilton, James R, Norlander, Rebecca A., Manos, Michael J, Zhao, Feng, Treadwell, David R. III, Chitsaz, Behrooz
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, KHANH Q
• Application Number:
  US12/050,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20090240798A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: 709/208, 709/224, 709/227, 709/218, 707/9, 370/401
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/502 Proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5094 where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An exemplary component for managing requests for resources in a data center includes a service request module for receiving requests for resources from a plurality of services and a resource module to monitor resources in a data center and to match received requests to resources. Such a component optionally includes an application programming interface (API) that provides for sending information in response to an API call made by a service. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more processing units configured with computer readable instructions, the method comprising:

receiving requests for resources from a plurality of services, the plurality of services comprising asynchronous peak demands;

monitoring resources in a data center;

matching received requests to the resources; and

determining a pricing based at least in part on utilization of the monitored resources that prompts a user to schedule at least one of the requests at a time of off-peak demands and reschedule the at least one of the requests at a time with valley demands, the pricing including different pricing for ingress and egress for the data center.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring utilization of resources in the data center.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring one or more resources selected from a group consisting of processor resources, memory resources, bandwidth resources, I/O resources and disk resources.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the matching comprising matching the received requests to the resources based on a first-in-first-out scheme.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the matching comprises matching the received requests to the resources based on a service associated priority scheme.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the matching comprises using an anti-starvation mechanism.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing an application programming interface (API).

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the API provides for sending information in response to an API call.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the information comprises cost information associated with cost of resources required to service a request.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the cost information comprises cost based in part on utilization of resources in the data center.

20. The method of claim 1 further comprising assessing a resource utilization for one or more of the resources over a period of time and determines a pricing scale of the one or more of the resources based on the resource utilization.

11. One or more memories having stored therein one or more computer executable modules that are executable by one or more processors, the one or more computer executable modules comprising:

a service request module that receives requests for resources from a plurality of services;

a resource module that monitors resources in one or more data centers and matches the received requests to the resources;

a geographic location module that maintains a geographic location for each of the plurality of data centers; and

a pricing module that determines a pricing based at least in part on utilization of the monitored resources that prompts a user to schedule at least one of the requests at a time of off-peak demands and reschedule the at least one of the requests at a time with valley demands, the pricing including different pricing for ingress and egress for at least one of the one or more data centers.

12. The one or more memories of claim 11, wherein the resource module matches the requests to the resources based in part on geographic location.

13. The one or more memories of claim 12, wherein the resource module matches the requests to the resources based in part on the geographic location, a resource utilization, and a power cost of one or more of the plurality of data centers.

14. The one or more memories of claim 11 wherein the service request module comprises an application programming interface (API).

15. The one or more memories of claim 14 wherein the API provides for sending information in response to an API call.

16. The one or more memories of claim 15 wherein the information comprises cost information associated with cost of resources required to service a request.

17. The one or more memories of claim 11 wherein the resource module matches the requests to the resources based in part on cost of resources.

18. A system for managing requests for resources in a plurality of data centers, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories having stored thereon computer executable modules that are executable by the one or more processors, the one or more computer executable modules comprising;

a service request module that receives requests for resources from a plurality of services;

a priority management module that places the requests according to their priorities;

a geographic location module that maintains a geographic location for each of the plurality of data centers;

a resource module that monitors resources in a data center, communicates with another resource module that monitors resources in another data center and matches the received requests to resources in one or more data centers of the plurality of data centers based in part on the geographic location, the pricing of resource utilization, or a power cost of the one or more data centers of the plurality of data centers; and

a pricing module that determines a pricing based at least in part on utilization of the monitored resources that prompts a user to schedule at least one of the requests at a time of off-peak demands and reschedule the at least one of the requests at a time with valley demands, the pricing including different pricing for ingress and egress for the one or more data centers of the plurality of data centers.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the resource module determines when to use more memory resources to save disk and/or networking resources.