Business attribute driven sizing algorithms

• US 9,838,370 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Doering, Jeffrey Ryan, Shetty, Prashant Kumar, Arun, Gopalan, Lakshmanan, Pradeep Maheshwaran, Venkatesan, Vishnupriyan
• Primary Examiner(s): Boswell, Beth V
• Assistant Examiner(s): Waesco, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/836,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,726 Days
• Field of Search: 726 11, 726 12, 705 725
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities

Abstract

A cloud infrastructure system includes one or more computing devices and is configured to receive subscription order information related to one or more services subscribed to by a customer of the cloud infrastructure system, the service selected from one or more services provided by the cloud infrastructure system. The cloud infrastructure system receives a set of one or more mapping rules configured to map business attributes to resource provisioning information for one or more of the one or more services provided by the cloud infrastructure system. The cloud infrastructure system determines whether one or more business attributes in the subscription order information satisfy one or more mapping rules in the set of mapping rules and generates resource provisioning information for one or more resources associated with the one or more services based on resource provisioning information in the one or more mapping rules satisfied by the one or more business attributes in the subscription order information.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning a service, the method being performed by a cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

receiving order information for a cloud-based service requested by a customer, the requested cloud-based service being one of a plurality of cloud-based services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, wherein the order information includes one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service;

retrieving a set of mapping rules, each mapping rule in the set of mapping rules indicating that a specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service is mapped to a set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service, wherein the set of mapping rules includes a first mapping rule indicating that a first configuration of the requested cloud-based service is mapped to a first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

determining, based on a weighting factor associated with the requested cloud-based service, that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

selecting the first mapping rule from the set of mapping rules for provisioning the requested cloud-based service in response to the determining that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

generating, based on selecting the first mapping rule, a provisioning configuration for an allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources, wherein the provisioning configuration includes one or more parameters for determining the allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources;

determining, based on the one or more parameters included in the generated provisioning configuration, a plurality of provisioning tasks configured to allocate the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources to provision the requested cloud-based service; and

provisioning the requested cloud-based service, wherein provisioning the requested cloud-based service includes executing the determined plurality of provisioning tasks configured to allocate the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service indicates a number of users that are to access the requested cloud-based service, a set of application sub-modules for the requested cloud-based service, a set of additional resources for enabling the requested cloud-based service, or a service level that is to be provided by the requested cloud-based service to the number of users.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein, for each mapping rule in the set of mapping rules, the specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service indicated by the mapping rule specifies one or more configuration attributes that define the specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service, wherein if the one or more configuration attributes is determined to match the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service, the specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service is satisfied.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein each mapping rule in the set of mapping rules specifies information for allocating one or more pre-provisioned resources to enable one or more components of the requested cloud-based service.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the order information further indicates that a specific service component of the requested cloud-based service is to be enabled, and wherein the set of mapping rules specifies that the weighting factor is associated with the specific service component.

6. The method of claim 1:

wherein requested cloud-based service is a first cloud-based service;

wherein the order information is for a second cloud-based service requested by the customer, the second cloud-based service being another one of the plurality of cloud-based services provided by the cloud infrastructure system; and

wherein the method further comprises;

determining a value related to the first cloud-based service from the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service; and

determining a value related to the second cloud-based service from the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service; and

generating information indicative of an amount of resources to be provisioned for the first cloud-based service and the second cloud-based service based on the value related to the first cloud-based service and the value related to the second cloud-based service.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a value related to a first component of the requested cloud-based service from the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service; and

determining a value related to a second component of the requested cloud-based service from the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service; and

generating information indicative of an amount of resources to be provisioned for the first component and the second component based on the value related to the first component and the value related to the second component.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of mapping rules is included within an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the provisioning configuration indicates how to scale the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating a notification based on the provisioning configuration.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein determining that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service comprises applying the weighting factor to one of the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service to obtain a weighted attribute.

12. The method of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of cloud-based services is associated with a corresponding weighting factor.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the specific service component is a first service component, wherein the weighting factor is a first weighting factor, wherein the order information further indicates that a second service component of the requested cloud-based service is to be enabled, and wherein the set of mapping rules specifies that a second weighting factor is associated with the second service component.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated provisioning configuration is formatted in an XML.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources is based on a first attribute of the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service falling within a range indicated by the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources comprises one or more nodes pre-configured for enabling the service.

17. The method of claim 1,

wherein the order information is received as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) request through a web service processing layer;

wherein one or more external modules provision one or more database services, provision one or more web services, provision one or more middleware application services, provide one or more identity management, provide one or more access management, provision one or more application environments, provision one or more connection services, or a combination thereof;

wherein the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources corresponds to one or more pre-provisioned virtual machines;

wherein the cloud-based service requested by the customer is specified to provide an application;

wherein at least one of the one or more provisioning tasks corresponds to configuring the one or more pre-provisioned virtual machines to host the application;

wherein the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service specifies a number of users that are to be hosted by the cloud-based service or whether the cloud-based service is to be used in a production context or a testing context; and

wherein a first provisioning task of the plurality of provisioning tasks is configured to execute asynchronously with a second provisioning task of the plurality of provisioning tasks when executed for provisioning the requested cloud-based service.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code executable by one or more computing devices in a cloud infrastructure system, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

code for receiving order information for a cloud-based service requested by a customer, the requested cloud-based service being one of a plurality of cloud-based services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, wherein the order information includes one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service;

code for retrieving a set of mapping rules, each mapping rule in the set of mapping rules indicating that a specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service is mapped to a set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service, wherein the set of mapping rules includes a first mapping rule indicating that a first configuration of the requested cloud-based service is mapped to a first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

code for determining, based on a weighting factor associated with the requested cloud-based service, that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

code for selecting the first mapping rule from the set of mapping rules for provisioning the requested cloud-based service in response to the determining that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

code for generating, based on selecting the first mapping rule, a provisioning configuration for an allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources, wherein the provisioning configuration includes one or more parameters for determining the allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources;

code for determining, based on the one or more parameters included in the generated provisioning configuration, a plurality of provisioning tasks configured to allocate the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources to provision the requested cloud-based service; and

code for provisioning the requested cloud-based service, wherein provisioning the requested cloud-based service includes executing the determined plurality of provisioning tasks configured to allocate the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources.

19. A cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, the cloud infrastructure system configured to:

receive order information for a cloud-based service requested by a customer, the requested cloud-based service being one of a plurality of cloud-based services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, wherein the order information includes one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service;

retrieve a set of mapping rules, each mapping rule in the set of mapping rules indicating that a specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service is mapped to a set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the specific configuration of the requested cloud-based service, wherein the set of mapping rules includes a first mapping rule indicating that a first configuration of the requested cloud-based service is mapped to a first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources for enabling the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

determine, based on a weighting factor associated with the requested cloud-based service, that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

select the first mapping rule from the set of mapping rules for provisioning the requested cloud-based service in response to the determining that the one or more attributes of the requested cloud-based service satisfies the first configuration of the requested cloud-based service;

generate, based on selecting the first mapping rule, a provisioning configuration for an allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources, wherein the provisioning configuration includes one or more parameters for determining the allocation of the requested cloud-based service using the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources;

determine, based on the one or more parameters included in the generated provisioning configuration, a plurality of provisioning tasks configured to allocate the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources to provision the requested cloud-based service; and

provision the requested cloud-based service, wherein provisioning the requested cloud-based service includes executing the determined plurality of provisioning tasks configured to allocate the first set of one or more pre-provisioned resources.