Management of a data network of a computing environment

• US 9,253,016 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2010
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Adlung, Ingo, Bailey, Kimberly T., Baitinger, Friedemann, Driever, Patricia G., Frey, Jeffrey A., Huynh, Lap T., Kassimis, Constantinos, Macchiano, Angelo, Ratcliff, Bruce, Stevens, Jerry W., Valley, Stephen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Viet
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELCHER, HERMAN A
• Application Number:
  US12/938,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,918 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1042 using topology management mechanisms

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 computer program product for managing networks of a computing environment, said computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

coupling a first computing system of the computing environment with a second computing system of the computing environment via a management network, the management network used to provide management controls to the first computing system and the second computing system;

coupling the first computing system with the second computing system via a data network of the computing environment, the data network being a separate network from the management network and being independent and secure from the management network, and used for customer applications running on the second computing system of the computing environment; and

using a resource manager coupled to the management network to manage the management network and to manage and control the data network of the computing environment, in which the resource manager uses the management network to allocate and configure resources to access the data network and support the customer applications, wherein the resource manager manages resources of the first computing system and the second computing system by controlling resource allocation and provisioning according to a customer-selected policy, wherein the customer-selected policy supports a customer application, wherein the customer application comprises a customer-deployed application having access to the data network, and wherein, based on the data network being independent and secure from the management network, the management network is inaccessible to the customer-deployed application, and wherein the first computing system comprises at least one component of the resource manager and the second computing system comprises at least one component of the resource manager.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the first computing system and the second computing system are within one node of the computing environment and wherein the data network physically couples the one node to at least one other node of the computing environment.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the first computing system comprises a processing system and the second computing system comprises a blade extension.

4. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the method further comprises managing the data network across an ensemble of nodes using a federation of management networks.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the using the resource manager to manage the data network comprises managing access to the data network, the managing access to the data network comprising initiating by the resource manager creation of one or more virtual servers to control access to one or more virtual networks of the data network.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the data network is pre-configured removing responsibility for configuring the data network from users of the computing environment.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises providing one or more virtual local area networks on the data network, the providing controlled by the resource manager.

15. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the resource manager adheres to a management model of the first computing system in management of the data network of the computing environment, wherein adhering to the management model comprises setting up security boundaries on resource usage by a customer to facilitate maintaining security of the computing environment.

16. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the data network couples the first computing system and the second computing system via at least one network connection physically isolated from the management network to facilitate security from the management network.

17. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the first computing system and the second computing system are separately coupled to the management network.

18. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein using the resource manager to manage the data network of the computing environment comprises using the management network to:

provision and deploy multiple different types of resources of the first computing system and the second computing system; and

present the multiple different types of resources to users as a single logical computing platform.

8. A computer system for managing networks of a computing environment, said computer system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor in communications with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, said method comprising;

coupling a first computing system of the computing environment with a second computing system of the computing environment via a management network, the management network used to provide management controls to the first computing system and the second computing system;

coupling the first computing system with the second computing system via a data network of the computing environment, the data network being a separate network from the management network and being independent and secure from the management network, and used for customer applications running on the second computing system of the computing environment; and

using a resource manager coupled to the management network to manage the management network and to manage and control the data network of the computing environment, in which the resource manager uses the management network to allocate and configure resources to access the data network and support the customer applications, wherein the resource manager manages resources of the first computing system and the second computing system by controlling resource allocation and provisioning according to a customer-selected policy, wherein the customer-selected policy supports a customer application, wherein the customer application comprises a customer-deployed application having access to the data network, and wherein, based on the data network being independent and secure from the management network, the management network is inaccessible to the customer-deployed application, and wherein the first computing system comprises at least one component of the resource manager and the second computing system comprises at least one component of the resource manager.

9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the first computing system comprises a processing system and the second computing system comprises a blade extension, wherein the first computing system and the second computing system are within one node of the computing environment and wherein the data network physically couples the one node to at least one other node of the computing environment.

10. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises managing the data network across an ensemble of nodes using a federation of management networks.

11. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the first computing system is of a first system architecture and the second computing system is of a second system architecture different from the first system architecture.

12. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the using the resource manager to manage the data network comprises managing access to the data network, the managing access to the data network comprising initiating by the resource manager creation of one or more virtual servers to control access to one or more virtual networks of the data network.

13. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the data network is pre-configured removing responsibility for configuring the data network from users of the computing environment.

14. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises providing one or more virtual local area networks on the data network, the providing controlled by the resource manager.