Triggering workload movement based on policy stack having multiple selectable inputs

• US 9,602,592 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2015
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Morgan, Christopher Edwin
• Primary Examiner(s): WASEL, MOHAMED A
• Application Number:
  US14/715,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20150249707A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

A policy management tool can access a set of usage history data for a set of resources consumed by the workload and generate a migration policy stack in view of a set of user-selected policy parameters, wherein the set of user-selected policy parameters comprises a set of multiple selectable inputs, and the migration policy stack comprises a set of one or more migration policies. The policy management tool can evaluate the set of one or more workload migration policies in view of the set of usage history data to configure a migration of the workload, and schedule the migration of the workload in view of the evaluating.

Claims

1. A method of managing workload migration policies, comprising:

accessing a set of usage history data for a set of resources consumed by a workload;

generating, by a processing device, a migration policy stack in view of a set of user-selected policy parameters, wherein the set of user-selected policy parameters comprises a set of multiple selectable inputs, and the migration policy stack comprises a set of one or more workload migration policies;

evaluating the set of one or more workload migration policies in view of the set of usage history data to configure a migration of the workload; and

scheduling the migration of the workload in view of the evaluating.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the workload comprises a container.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the workload comprises a micro-service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of resource consumption thresholds comprises at least one resource consumption threshold that is a function of a workload performance parameter.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the workload performance parameter comprises a transaction rate by at least one of the set of virtual machines configured as a transaction server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the set of user-selected policy parameters is a function of at least one other of the set of user-selected policy parameters.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein evaluating the set of one or more workload migration policies comprises checking compliance with entitlements.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of user-selected policy parameters comprises at least one policy parameter automatically generated in view of the set of usage history data.

9. A system for distributing cloud workloads, comprising:

an interface to a data store to store a set of usage history data for a set of resources consumed by a workload; and

a processing device, to communicate with the data store via the interface, the processing device to;

access the set of usage history data for the set of resources consumed by the workload;

generate a migration policy stack in view of a set of user-selected policy parameters, wherein the set of user-selected policy parameters comprises a set of multiple selectable inputs, and the migration policy stack comprises a set of one or more migration policies;

evaluate the set of one or more workload migration policies in view of the set of usage history data to configure a migration of the workload; and

schedule the migration of the workload in view of the evaluating.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the workload comprises a container.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the workload comprises a micro-service.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the set of resource consumption thresholds comprises at least one resource consumption threshold that is a function of a workload performance parameter.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the workload performance parameter comprises a transaction rate by at least one of the set of virtual machines configured as a transaction server.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein at least one of the set of user-selected policy parameters is a function of at least one other of the set of user-selected policy parameters.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein to evaluate the set of one or more workload migration policies, the processing device to check compliance with entitlements.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the set of user-selected policy parameters comprises at least one policy parameter automatically generated based on the set of usage history data.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to:

access a set of usage history data for a set of resources consumed by the workload;

generate, by the processing device, a migration policy stack in view of a set of user-selected policy parameters, wherein the set of user-selected policy parameters comprises a set of multiple selectable inputs, and the migration policy stack comprises a set of one or more migration policies;

evaluate the set of one or more workload migration policies in view of the set of usage history data to configure a migration of the workload; and

schedule the migration of the workload in view of the evaluating.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the workload comprises a container.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the workload comprises a micro-service.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein to evaluate the set of one or more workload migration policies, the instructions cause the processing device to check compliance with entitlements.