Computer workload redistribution schedule

• US 9,128,766 B1
• Filed: 04/24/2006
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Herington, Daniel Edward, Turicchi, Thomas Edwin Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Tammy
• Application Number:
  US11/409,851
• Time in Patent Office: 3,424 Days
• Field of Search: 718/104, 718/105, 709223-226, 713/300
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/329 by task scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
• 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 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A computer system has a capacity planner for creating and updating a workload redistribution schedule. A migration utility provides for redistribution of the workloads. A redistribution orchestrator directs, according to the schedule, the migration utility to implement the workload redistributions.

Claims

1. A process comprising:

executing plural workloads using at least one server having a power supply, said plural workloads including a first workload initially executing on a first server during a first allocation period;

collecting resource-utilization data for said workloads, said resource-utilization data indicating amounts of processing resources consumed by said workloads;

updating an original schedule of plural workload redistributions based, at least in part, on said resource-utilization data to yield an updated schedule, said updated schedule specifying plural workload redistributions collectively requiring opposing migrations in that said updated schedule, concurrently and before a second allocation period, specifies that said first workload is to be executed;

on a second server, different from said first server, during said second allocation period, and on said first server during a third allocation period, said second allocation period occurring after said first allocation period and before said third allocation period, wherein said second server to be activated and deactivated by changing between a power-ON low-power state and an active state, and wherein a third server to be placed in said power-ON low-power state while said second server is in said active state, and said third server to be placed in a power-OFF state while said second server is in said power-ON low-power state; and

implementing said updated schedule at least in part by implementing opposing migrations by migrating said first workload from said first server to said second server before said second allocation period, and migrating said first workload from said second server to said first server after said second allocation period.

2. The process as recited in claim 1 wherein said updated schedule further specifies that said second server is to be activated at a time before said second allocation period and is to be deactivated at a time after said second allocation period.

3. The process as recited in claim 1 wherein said updated schedule further specifies that said first workload is to be executed on said second server during a fourth allocation period occurring after said third allocation period.

4. The process as recited in claim 3 wherein said implementing said updated schedule includes migrating said first workload to said second server twice.

5. A system comprising non-transitory media encoded with code that, when executed using processors, causes the processors to implement a process including:

executing plural workloads using at least one server having a power supply, said plural workloads including a first workload initially executing on a first server during a first allocation period;

collecting resource-utilization data for said workloads, said resource-utilization data indicating amounts of processing resources consumed by said workloads;

updating an original schedule of plural workload redistributions based, at least in part, on said resource-utilization data to yield an updated schedule, said updated schedule specifying that plural workload redistributions collectively requiring opposing migrations in that said updated schedule, concurrently and before a second allocation period, specifies that said first workload is to be executed on a second server, different from said first server, during said second allocation period, and on said first server during a third allocation period, said second allocation period occurring after said first allocation period and before said third allocation period,

wherein said second server to be activated and deactivated by changing between a power-ON low-power state and an active state, and wherein a third server to be placed in said power-ON low-power state while said second server is in said active state, and said third server to be placed in a power-OFF state while said second server is in said power-ON low-power state; and

implementing said updated schedule at least in part by implementing opposing migrations by migrating said first workload from said first server to said second server before said second allocation period, and migrating said first workload from said second server to said first server after said second allocation period.

6. The system as recited in claim 5 wherein said updated schedule further specifies that said second server is to be activated at a time before said second allocation period and is to be deactivated at a time after said second allocation period.

7. The system as recited in claim 5 wherein said updated schedule further specifies that said first workload is to be executed on said second server during a fourth allocation period occurring after said third allocation period.

8. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein said implementing includes migrating said first workload to said second server twice according to said updated schedule.

9. The system as recited in claim 5 further comprising said processors.