Systems and methods for protecting virtualized assets

• US 9,791,908 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2014
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schneider Electric IT Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Schneider Electric IT Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Grehan, David, Hannon, Sarah Jane, Kamminga, Frederik, Porter, Paula, Khator, Amit Kumar
• Primary Examiner(s): CONNOLLY, MARK A
• Application Number:
  US14/535,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20150128052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/30 Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations for resetting only G06F1/24
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

According to various aspects and embodiments, a power management system configured to protect a plurality of information technology (IT) assets is provided. The system includes a migration component executable by the at least one processor and configured to identify the plurality of IT assets, the plurality of IT assets including at least one power supply unit and at least one host server, generate an association between at least one IT asset and at least one power supply unit, receive a power-related event from the at least one power supply unit, correlate the power-related event with at least one affected IT asset based on the generated association, determine a sequence of actions, wherein the sequence of actions is configured to migrate at least one virtual machine from the at least one affected IT asset to a non-affected asset, and execute the sequence of actions.

Claims

1. A power management system configured to protect a plurality of information technology (IT) assets, the system comprising:

a memory;

at least one processor coupled to the memory; and

a migration component executable by the at least one processor and configured to;

identify the plurality of IT assets, the plurality of IT assets including at least one power supply unit and at least one host server;

generate an association between at least one IT asset and at least one power supply unit;

receive a power-related event from the at least one power supply unit;

correlate the power-related event with at least one affected IT asset based on the generated association;

determine if at least one of the virtual machines is a critical IT asset;

determine a sequence of actions, wherein the sequence of actions is configured to migrate at least one virtual machine from the at least one affected IT asset to a non-affected IT asset and wherein the sequence of actions includes actions identifying the plurality of virtual machines in an ordered list; and

execute the sequence of actions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one power supply unit is a uninterruptable power supply (UPS), and wherein the UPS includes a primary outlet group and a second outlet group, and wherein the at least one host server is coupled to at least one of the primary outlet group and the second outlet group.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of IT assets are identified via a discovery procedure.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the generated association is generated between the at least one IT asset and the at least one power supply unit based on input received from visual elements of a user interface, the user interface visualizing a mapping of the at least one power supply unit and the at least one IT asset associated with the at least one power supply unit.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the generated association is modified by a user dragging-and-dropping a representation of an unassociated IT asset of the plurality of IT assets onto the mapping.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on an order in which IT assets appear in the mapping.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one affected IT asset is identified as affected by the power-related event based on the generated association between the at least one power supply unit and one or more mapped IT assets associated with the at least one power supply unit.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the migration component is further configured to communicate directly with the at least one affected IT asset to determine a plurality of virtual machines hosted by the at least one affected IT asset.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the migration component is further configured to communicate indirectly with the at least one affected IT asset to determine a plurality of virtual machines hosted by the at least one affected IT asset.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the executed sequence of actions includes an action to migrate at least one critical IT asset last.

11. A method of managing a plurality of information technology (IT) assets using a computer system including a memory, a display, and at least one processor coupled to the memory and the display, the method comprising:

identifying the plurality of IT assets, the plurality of IT assets including at least one power supply unit and at least one host server;

generating an association between at least one IT asset and at least one power supply unit;

receiving information related to a power-related event from the at least one power supply unit;

correlating the power-related event with at least one affected IT asset based on the generated association;

identifying at least one IT asset of the plurality of IT assets as being a critical IT asset;

determining a sequence of actions, wherein the sequence of actions is configured to migrate at least one virtual machine from at least one affected IT asset and wherein the sequence of actions includes actions identifying the plurality of virtual machines in an ordered list; and

executing the sequence of actions.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the act of generating the association between at least one IT asset and at least one power supply unit includes generating a user interface, the user interface visually representing a mapping of at least one power supply unit and the at least one IT asset associated with the at least one power supply unit.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the act of executing the sequence of actions includes communicating directly with each IT asset based on the ordered list.

14. The method of claim 11, the method further comprising transmitting a shutdown command for each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines based on the ordered list, wherein transmitting the shutdown command further includes shutting down the critical IT asset last.

15. The method of claim 11, the method further comprising determining one or more IT assets for migration of the plurality of virtual machines.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the act of determining one or more IT assets for migration of the plurality of virtual machines includes determining whether the one or more IT assets are coupled to a power supply unit not experiencing a power failure based on the generated association.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for managing a plurality of IT assets, the instructions being executable by at least one processor of a computer system, the instructions configured to instruct the computer system to:

identify the plurality of IT assets, the plurality of IT assets including at least one power supply unit and at least one host server;

generate an association between at least one IT asset and at least one power supply unit;

receive a power-related event from the at least one power supply unit;

correlate the power-related event with at least one affected IT asset based on the generated association;

identify at least one IT asset of the plurality of IT assets as being a critical IT asset;

determine a sequence of actions, wherein the sequence of actions is configured to migrate at least one virtual machine from the at least one IT asset to a non-affected IT asset and wherein the sequence of actions includes actions identifying the plurality of virtual machines in an ordered list; and

execute the sequence of actions.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the generated association is an association between the at least one IT asset and the at least one power supply unit based on input received from visual elements of a user interface, the user interface generating a mapping of the at least one power supply unit and the at least one IT asset associated to the at least one power supply unit.