Resource allocation/de-allocation and activation/deactivation

• US 9,400,689 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2014
• Issued: 07/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Banzhaf, Gerhard, Jenks, James M., Nunez Mencias, Angel, Weinmann, Eric A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): FRANCO, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US14/521,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20160072719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 642 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45579 I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45583 Memory management, e.g. access or allocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• 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 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, carried out by one or more processors, for managing resources in a server environment. In an embodiment, the method includes determining to prepare one or more virtual resources for activation of one or more allocated host resources, based, at least in part, on virtual resource definitions. The one or more allocated host resources and the one or more virtual resources are activated. Activation of the one or more virtual resources is finalized, wherein finalizing the activation includes updating the virtual resource definitions.

Claims

1. A method for managing resources in a server environment, the method comprising:

querying, by one or more processors, a first resource consumer for a list, wherein the list includes at least a first virtual resource and a first host resource;

querying, by one or more processors, a host resource pool to determine if the first host resource is present;

responsive to determining the first host resource is present in the host resource pool, allocating, by one or more processors, the first host resource to the first resource consumer;

sending, by one or more processors, a request to activate the first virtual resource and the first host resource to a virtual resource provider and a host resource provider, wherein the request to activate the first virtual resource and the first host resource is performed on a single thread;

determining, by one or more processors, to prepare one or more virtual resources for activation of one or more allocated host resources based at least in part on virtual resource definitions;

activating, by one or more processors, the one or more allocated host resources;

updating, by one or more processors, the virtual resource definitions to indicate the one or more allocated host resources are activated;

activating, by one or more processors, the one or more virtual resources;

determining, by one or more processors, the first resource consumer is initialized;

sending, by one or more processors, a request to finalize the activation of the first virtual resource; and

finalizing, by one or more processors, the activation of the one or more virtual resources, wherein finalizing the activation includes updating the I/O configuration definitions for each of the one or more virtual resources.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, to prepare the one or more virtual resources for deactivation of the one or more allocated host resources based at least in part on the virtual resource definitions;

deactivating, by one or more processors, the one or more allocated host resources;

deactivating, by one or more processors, the one or more virtual resources; and

finalizing, by one or more processors, the deactivation of the one or more virtual resources, wherein finalizing the deactivation includes updating the virtual resource definitions.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, to prepare the first virtual resource of the virtual resource provider for deactivation, wherein the determination is based at least in part on the virtual resource definitions;

determining, by one or more processors, to prepare the first host resource of the host resource provider for deactivation; and

assigning, by one or more processors, the first host resource to a second virtual resource for a second resource consumer.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

activating, by one or more processors, the second virtual resource; and

activating, by one or more processors, the second resource consumer.