Load balancing workload groups

• US 8,959,226 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2012
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Arrowood, Andrew H., Fitzpatrick, Michael G., McAfee, Gary O.
• Primary Examiner(s): MIAH, RAZU A
• Application Number:
  US13/447,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297068A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,037 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 370/398, 370/412, 718/104
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

A method for managing requests. The requests are received by a workload manager system to perform operations on data. A set of server applications is identified by the workload manager system to perform the operations in the requests based on a set of common resources used by the set of server applications. The set of server applications is in a workload group and the workload group is comprised of a plurality of application groups.

Claims

1. A method for managing requests, the method comprising:

receiving, by a workload manager system, the requests to perform operations on data, wherein the requests are unassigned;

identifying, by the workload manager system;

a set of server applications to perform the operations in the requests based on a set of common resources used by the set of server applications, wherein the set of server applications is mapped to a workload group and the workload group is comprised of a plurality of server application groups, wherein the workload group is modified according to one or more rules in a policy in response to information comprising at least one of the server application groups use of the set of common resources;

a change in a resource configuration information;

a threshold for a load exceeded;

weight information comprising one or more weights selectively associated respectively with each of the server application groups in the plurality of server application server groups, and wherein each server application in the plurality of server application server groups has one or more weights;

wherein the policy is used to identify the set of server applications to perform the operations in the requests based on the set of common resources used by the set of server applications in combination with information comprising resource configuration information identifying resources that may be accessed by the server applications, resource availability information indicating resources that can actually be accessed by the server applications; and

load information identifying a workload on different server applications including information comprising a number of requests each server application has to process and the policy is used to send the requests to the set of server applications accessing the set of common resources in which the requests are received during a session;

assigning the requests to the set of server applications identified; and

adding the assignment of the requests to an assignment log.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending, by the workload manager system, the requests assigned to the set of server applications identified for the requests.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending, by a load balancer, the requests assigned to the set of server applications identified for the requests by the workload manager system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying, by the workload manager system, the set of server applications to perform the operations in the requests based on the set of common resources used by the set of server applications comprises:

identifying, by the workload manager system, a type of server application to perform an operation for a request in the requests; and

identifying, by the workload manager system, a server application based on the type of server application identified to perform the operation in the request and a common resource on which the operation is performed.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of common resources comprises at least one of a set of data sources, hardware, and a set of computer systems on which the set of server applications is located.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of common resources is selected from one of hardware resources and data sources.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the requests are for a website.