Concurrent workload deployment to synchronize activity in a design palette

• US 9,563,473 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ghosh, Rahul, Hockett, Hugh E., Quirk, Aaron J., Sun, Lin
• Primary Examiner(s): Kawsar, Abdullah Al
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chu Joy-Davila, Jorge A
• Application Number:
  US14/822,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20160162339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3003 Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4887 involving deadlines, e.g. rate based, periodic
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system

Abstract

A system and method for iteratively deploying a workload pattern are provided. The system and method determines a current set of requirements for at least one piece of the workload pattern that is initiated in a designer and generates a stability metric for at least one of the current set of requirements. The system and method further compares the stability metric to an acceptance threshold and calculates an estimated time to deploy the at least one piece of the workload pattern based on the comparing of the stability metric to the acceptance threshold.

Claims

1. A method for iteratively deploying a workload pattern comprising a plurality of pieces, by a processor, the method comprising:

determining, by the processor, a current set of requirements for at least one piece of the workload pattern, the workload pattern being initiated by a user in a designer;

generating, by the processor, a stability metric for each item in the current set of requirements of the at least one piece of the workload pattern,

the stability metric evaluating a plurality of conditions including at least one condition selected from a group consisting of a tier dependency level of the pieces of the workload pattern and a time since last modification of the workload pattern by the user,

the stability metric comprising a quantitative value indicating a stability of the at least one piece of the workload pattern with respect to an ideal time to deploy the at least one piece of the workload pattern;

comparing, by the processor, the stability metric to an acceptance threshold;

calculating, by the processor, an estimated time to deploy the at least one piece of the workload pattern when the comparing of the stability metric to the acceptance threshold indicates that a stability of the at least one piece of the workload pattern is greater than or equal to the acceptance threshold; and

performing a deployment operation of the at least one piece of the workload pattern based on the calculated estimated time to deploy.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the current set of requirements is in response to a save operation or an asynchronous time interval.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a background deployment operation on the at least one piece of the workload pattern at a conclusion of the estimated time to deploy, the background deployment operation configured to deploy the at least one piece of the workload pattern into an operation environment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the stability metric is based on at least one of a tier dependency level or a time since the last modification.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an extension to the workload pattern; and

adjusting the estimated time to deploy to incorporate any additional provisioning time of the extension.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, via the designer, an indication of the estimated time to deploy.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the stability metric is one of a plurality of tier stability metrics,

wherein the at least one piece of the workload pattern is included in a plurality of workload pattern components,

each of the plurality of tier stability metrics corresponds to an item in the current set of requirements and is utilized to optimize a churn and prioritize a deployment order for the plurality of workload pattern components.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein when the extension is an addition of a new virtual machine independent from current virtual machines in the workload pattern, then a provisioning time of the workload pattern increases if a provisioning time of the additional virtual machine is maximum across the new and current virtual machines or the provisioning time of the workload pattern remains if the provisioning time of new virtual machine is less than a longest provisioning time of one of the current virtual machines.