Flexible cloud management with power management support

• US 9,104,407 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2009
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: DeHaan, Michael Paul, Henson, Scott Jared, Eckersberg, John Joseph II
• Primary Examiner(s): LAZARO, DAVID R
• Application Number:
  US12/473,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20100306354A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,266 Days
• Field of Search: 709203-207, 709217-238, 713/1, 713/300
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 1/04 Preserving or maintaining viable microorganisms immobilised microorganisms C12N11/00
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 1/10 Protozoa; Culture media therefor
• CPC Class Codes: C12P 7/6409 Fatty acids
• CPC Class Codes: C12P 7/6427 Polyunsaturated fatty acids [PUFA], i.e. having two or more double bonds in their backbone
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/06 Quantitative determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45575 Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• 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: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A cloud management system can determine if the operational state of the virtual machines and/or the computing systems needs to be altered in order to instantiate virtual machines. If the operational state of the computing systems needs to be altered, the cloud management system retrieves an identification of the power management systems supporting the computing systems. The cloud management system can utilize the identification of the power management systems to instruct the power management systems to alter the power state of the computing system in order to instantiate the virtual machines.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a request to instantiate a virtual machine in a cloud, wherein the request comprises a specification of the virtual machine;

selecting, by the processor, a computing system from a set of computing systems based on the specification;

determining, by the processor, whether a power state of the computing system is to be altered in response to instantiating the virtual machine on the computing system;

identifying a power management system, a type of the power management system, and information pertaining to communication with the power management system; and

providing, by the processor, a command to the power management system to alter the power state.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising instantiating the virtual machine on the computing system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a record of the identification of the power management system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the specification comprises at least one of a type of the virtual machine, a process performed by the virtual machine, or a desired computing resource for the virtual machine.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a system that is different than the computing system instantiates the virtual machine.

6. A system comprising:

a network interface to a set of computing systems; and

a processor, operatively coupled to communicate with the network interface, to;

receive a request to instantiate a virtual machine in a cloud, wherein the request comprises a specification of the virtual machine,

select a computing system from the set of computing systems based on the specifications,

determine whether a power state of the computing system is to be altered in response to instantiating the virtual machine on the computing system,

identify a power management system, a type of the power management system, and information pertaining to communication with the power management system, and

provide a command to the power management system to alter the power state.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further to instantiate the virtual machine on the computing system.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further to store a record of the identification of the power management system.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the specification comprises at least one of a type of the virtual machine, a process performed by the virtual machine, or a desired computing resource for the virtual machine.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further to provide an indication of the computing system to another system to instantiate the virtual machine.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause a processor to:

receive, by the processor, a request to instantiate a virtual machine in a cloud, wherein the request comprises a specification of the virtual machine;

select, by the processor, a computing system from a set of computing systems based on the specification;

determine, by the processor, whether a power state of the computing system is to be altered in response to instantiating the virtual machine on the computing system;

identify a power management system, a type of the power management system, and information pertaining to communication with the power management system; and

provide, by the processor, a command to the power management system to alter the power state.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to instantiate the virtual machine on the computing system.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to store a record of the identification of the power management system.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the specification comprises at least one of a type of the virtual machine, a process performed by the virtual machine, or a desired computing resource for the virtual machine.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to provide an indication of the computing system to another system to instantiate the virtual machine.