Resource allocation system, resource allocation method and program which flexibly introduces a service

• US 8,495,646 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Uchida, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Coleman, Eric
• Application Number:
  US12/354,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20090183168A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,650 Days
• Field of Search: 718/104
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3433 for load management allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3442 for planning or managing the needed capacity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5014 Reservation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A resource allocation system comprising: a resource state monitoring unit which measures a capacity and/or a usage of a computer resource(s) to be managed (referred to below as “managing resource(s)”) and an allocation adjustment unit which determines a new amount of allocating resource(s) by using at least one item of information among either of capacity and usage of the managing resource, complying a resource(s) amount demanded to be allocated (referred to below as “demanded resource amount”), wherein the determined resource amount is allocated in response to a request for the resource amount.

Claims

1. A resource allocation system comprising:

a resource monitoring unit, as executed by a processor, which measures a current capacity and/or a current usage of a resource to be managed when the resource monitoring unit receives a request that the resource is newly allocated in order to start a service;

an allocation adjustment unit, as executed by the processor, which determines an amount of the resource allocated to the service, based on the current capacity and/or current usage of the measured resource; and

a resource allocation unit, as executed by the processor, which reserves the resource allocated to the service according to the amount determined by the allocation adjustment unit,

wherein when the amount of the resource can be determined the allocation adjustment unit sends information of the resource reserved by the resource allocation unit to a source of the request, and when the amount of the resource can not be determined the allocation adjustment unit returns a message, which indicates a failure to reserve the resource allocated to the service, to the source of the request.

2. The resource allocation system according to claim 1, wherein

the allocation adjustment unit decreases the amount of the resource allocated to the service, in cases in which an unused capacity or an unused rate of the managing resource is below a prescribed value.

3. The resource allocation system according to claim 1, wherein

the allocation adjustment unit decreases the amount of the resource allocated to the service, in cases in which a used capacity or a used rate of the managing resource is above a prescribed value.

4. The resource allocation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a usage plan setting unit, which holds usage plan information for resource(s), wherein

the allocation adjustment unit determines new amount of allocating resource by also using the usage plan information for resource(s).

5. The resource allocation system according to claim 4, wherein

the allocation adjustment unit limits maximum of the new amount of allocating resource at a value which divided an allocatable capacity, which can be calculated by using at least one item of information among either of the usage of managing resource(s), into the number of unallocated services, which can be calculated by subtracting the number of allocated services from an upper limit of service in the usage plan information of resources, equally.

6. The resource allocation system according to claim 4, wherein

the allocation adjustment unit calculates the new amount of allocating resource(s) by distributing an allocatable capacity, which can be calculated by using at least one item of information among either of the usage of managing resource(s), complying with a predicted resource usage amount or a predicted resource usage rate with each service set in the resource usage plan information of resource(s).

7. The resource allocation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a remote resource securing unit which requests securing of resource allocation in a second resource allocation system managing a external resource(s) (referred to below as “

external managing resource(s)”

), wherein

the allocation adjustment unit determines the new amount of allocating resources by considering a allocating state of external managing resource over the remote resource securing unit.

8. The resource allocation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a resource reallocation unit, which changes a resource amount already allocated, wherein

the allocation adjustment unit determines the new amount of allocating resource(s) including a resource(s) released by changing an already allocated resource(s) over the resource allocation changing unit.

9. The resource allocation system according to claim 1, wherein

a prescribed proportion of a managing resource is set as an allocatable resource amount, and

the proportion of an allocatable resource amount of the managing resource is increased when the demanded resource amount cannot be secured even if the resource amount already allocated is changed,

the proportion of an allocatable resource amount of the managing resource is increased when the demanded resource amount cannot be secured even if the resource amount already allocated is changed.

10. A resource allocation method, comprising:

monitoring, by a computer, a current capacity and/or a current usage of a resource to be managed when receiving a request that the resource is newly allocated in order to start a service; and

determining an amount of the resource allocated to the service, based on the current capacity and/or the current usage of the measured resource,

reserving the resource allocated to the service according to the determined amount,

sending information of the resource reserved to a source of the request when the amount of the resource can be determined, and

returning a message to the source of the request which indicates a failure to reserve the resource allocated to the service when the amount of the resource can not be determined.

11. The resource allocation method according to claim 10, wherein the reserving the resource allocated to the service comprises:

decreasing the amount of the resource allocated to the service, in cases in which an unused capacity or an unused rate of the managing resource is below a prescribed value.

12. The resource allocation method according to claim 10, wherein the reserving the resource allocated to the service comprises:

decreasing the amount of the resource allocated to the service, in cases in which an used capacity or an used rate of the managing resource is above a prescribed value.

13. The resource allocation method according to claim 10, wherein

determining the new amount of allocating resource(s) by also using the usage plan information for resource(s).

14. The resource allocation method according to claim 13, wherein

limiting maximum of the new amount of allocating resource(s) at a value which divided an allocatable capacity, which can be calculated by using at least one item of information among either of the usage of managing resource(s), into the number of unallocated services, which can be calculated by subtracting the number of allocated services from an upper limit of service in the usage plan information of resource(s), equally.

15. The resource allocation method according to claim 13, comprising:

calculating the new amount of allocating resource(s) by distributing an allocatable capacity, which can be calculated by using at least one item of information among either of the usage of managing resource(s), complying with a predicted resource usage amount or a predicted resource usage rate with each service set in the resource usage plan information of resource(s).

16. The resource allocation method according to claim 10, comprising:

requesting securing of resource allocation in a second resource allocation system managing an external resource(s) (referred to below as “

external managing resource(s)”

), and

determining the new amount of allocating resource(s) by considering a allocating state of external managing resource(s) over the remote resource securing unit.

17. The resource allocation method according to claim 10 comprising:

requesting a change of a resource amount into an allocation target in which a resource is already allocated, and

determining the new amount of allocating resource(s) including a resource amount secured by above changing request.

18. The resource allocation method according to claim 10, wherein

a prescribed proportion of a managing resource is set as an allocatable resource amount, and

a proportion of an allocatable resource amount of the managing resource is increased when the demanded resource amount cannot be secured even if resource amount already allocated is changed.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing a program operated in a computer for determining an amount of a resource to be allocated, said program comprising:

a monitoring process which measures a current capacity and/or a current usage of a resource to be managed when the receiving a request that the resource is newly allocated in order to start a service;

an allocation adjustment process which determines an amount of the resource is determined by using at least one item of information among either of allocated to the service based on the current capacity and/or the current usage of the measured resource; and

a resource allocation process which reserves the resource allocated to the service according to the amount determined by the allocation adjustment unit,

wherein when the amount of the resource can be determined the program causes information of the resource reserved by the resource allocation unit to be sent to a source of the request, and when the amount of the resource can not be determined the program causes a message to be returned which indicates a failure to reserve the resource allocated to the service, to the source of the request.

20. The program according to claim 19, wherein, said allocation adjustment process comprises:

decreasing the amount of the resource allocated to the service, in cases in which an unused capacity or an unused rate of the managing resource is below a prescribed value.