Mobility operation resource allocation

• US 9,166,865 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2012
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Garza, Maria, Marion, Neal R., Tomsic, Nathaniel S., Vallabhaneni, Vasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Matt
• Assistant Examiner(s): IPAKCHI, MARYAM M
• Application Number:
  US13/671,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20140129958A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,077 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• 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 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• 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: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present disclosure a system and technique for mobility operation resource allocation is disclosed. The system includes a first machine having a running application, and a management console operable to manage migrating the running application from the first machine to a second machine. The management console is operable to: display an interface indicating a plurality of selectable mobility settings, each mobility setting corresponding to a desired resource allocation to utilize for the migration; receive via the interface, a selection of a mobility setting to apply for migrating the running application; and initiate migration of the running application from the first machine to the second machine utilizing resources as set by the selected mobility setting.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a first machine having a running instance of an operating system and an application, the operating system and the application utilizing a first resource allocation to run on the first machine;

a management console operable to manage migrating the running operating system and application from the first machine to a second machine, the management console further operable to;

display an interface comprising a plurality of selectable mobility settings, each mobility setting corresponding to a second resource allocation to utilize for the migration;

receive, via the interface, a selection of a mobility setting to apply for migrating the running operating system and application; and

initiate migration of the running operating system and application from the first machine to the second machine utilizing the second resource allocation as set by the selected mobility setting.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one virtual input/output server (VIOS) partition operable to negotiate a balance of resource allocations between the first machine and the second machine based on the selected mobility setting.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the VIOS partition is operable to automatically override the second resource allocation indicated by the selected mobility setting in response to identifying unavailable resources on either the first or second machines.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising an allocation module operable to identify a memory resource allocation for the migration based on the selected mobility setting.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the allocation module is operable to identify a processor resource allocation for the migration based on the selected mobility setting.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the interface is configured to indicate a first mobility setting corresponding to a performance-based resource allocation and a second mobility setting corresponding to a concurrency-based resource allocation.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein:

each selectable mobility setting sets an amount of memory on the first and second machines to allocate to the migration and a quantity of threads to use on the first and second machines for the migration; and

further comprising an allocation module configured to determine availability of the amount of memory and the quantity of threads on the first and second machines for the migration based on the selected mobility setting and, in response to determining an unavailability of the amount of memory or the quantity of threads on either the first or second machines for the migration, negotiate a balance of memory and threads to use on the first and second machines to use for the migration.

7. A computer program product for migration operation resource allocation, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to;

receive a request to migrate a logical partition (LPAR) running an instance of an operating system and an application from a first machine to a second machine, the LPAR utilizing a first resource allocation on the first machine;

display an adjustable resource allocation mobility setting interface indicating a plurality of mobility settings, each mobility setting corresponding to a second resource allocation to utilize for the migration;

receive a selection of at least one mobility setting; and

migrate the LPAR from the first machine to the second machine utilizing the second resource allocation as set by the selected mobility setting.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to negotiate a balance of resource allocations between the first machine and the second machine based on the selected mobility setting.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to automatically override the second resource allocation indicated by the selected mobility setting in response to identifying unavailable resources on either the first or second machines.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to identify a memory resource allocation for the migration based on the selected mobility setting.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to identify a processor resource allocation for the migration based on the selected mobility setting.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to display the interface to indicate a first mobility setting corresponding to a performance-based resource allocation and a second mobility setting corresponding to a concurrency-based resource allocation.

13. A system, comprising:

a first machine having a plurality of logical partitions (LPARs) each running an instance of an operating system and an application; and

a management console operable to manage migrating the plurality of LPARs from the first machine to a second machine, the management console further operable to;

display an interface comprising a plurality of selectable mobility settings, each mobility setting corresponding to a desired resource allocation to utilize for the migration, wherein a first mobility setting sets a first resource allocation to accommodate a desired rate of migration, and wherein a second mobility setting sets a second resource allocation to accommodate a desired concurrency of LPAR migrations;

receive, via the interface, a selection of a mobility setting to apply for migrating the LPARs; and

initiate migration of the LPARs from the first machine to the second machine utilizing resources as set by the selected mobility setting.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein each selectable mobility setting sets an amount of memory on the first and second machines to allocate to the migration and a quantity of threads to use on the first and second machines for the migration.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising an allocation module configured to, in response to detecting a mismatch between the amount of memory on the first machine and the amount of memory on the second machine to allocate to the migration based on the selected mobility setting, negotiate a balance of resource allocation on the first and second machines based on available resources on the first and second machines.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the management console is operable to receive a different selected mobility setting for each of the plurality of LPARs and automatically apply the respective selected mobility settings to the respective migrations of the LPARs.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein each selectable mobility setting sets a run time for the threads.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising an allocation module configured to evaluate available resources on the first and second machines based on the selected mobility setting.