Unified resource manager providing a single point of control

• US 9,086,918 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bieswanger, Andreas, Callaghan, Patrick J., Gdaniec, Joseph M., Osterndorf, Harm I., Rogers, Paul E., Schroeder, Kurt N., Valentine, Brian D., Weinmann, Eric W., Welter, Friedrich M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Swift, Charles
• Application Number:
  US13/722,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• 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
• 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 integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating performing operations of a computing environment, said method comprising:

receiving by a first component of a first computing system of a first system architecture a command from a resource manager of a second component of a second computing system of a second system architecture, said second system architecture being different from said first system architecture, wherein said resource manager and said first computing system adhere to a management model of the second computing system, the management model facilitating presentation of the first computing system and the second computing system as being a single system having a consistent resource configuration and system behavior on which to run customer-deployed applications, wherein the customer-deployed applications run at least partially on the first and second computing systems; and

performing the command by the first component, the command used in an operation according to the management model adhered to by the resource manager providing the command.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second component comprises a support element, and wherein the resource manager comprises firmware located within the support element.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the support element maintains a state in which the first computing system is configured, the state comprising at least one resource requirement for configuring the first computing system, in which the state in which the first computing system is configured is loaded at boot time of the first computing system and the first computing system is configured with a resource based on the state maintained by the support element.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation comprises loading a hypervisor on the first computing system, and wherein the receiving comprises receiving the command by a management module of the first computing system, the management module to load the hypervisor on the first computing system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation comprises creating a virtual server within the first computing environment, and wherein the receiving comprises receiving the command by a hypervisor of the first computing system, the hypervisor to create the virtual server to be hosted by the hypervisor.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation comprises performing one or more controls to manage energy consumption, and wherein the receiving comprises receiving the command by a management module of the first computing system, the management module to perform the one or more controls.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation comprises monitoring one or more resources of the first computing system, and wherein the receiving comprises receiving the command by a management module of the first computing system, the management module to perform the monitoring.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computing system comprises a blade extension and wherein the operation comprises updating a blade of the blade extension, wherein the updating uses state stored at the second computing system.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the updating comprises one of upgrading the blade or updating the blade based on blade replacement.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the updating comprises re-creating one or more virtual servers on the blade using the state stored at the second computing system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource manager is a single resource manager.