Information handling system application decentralized workload management

• US 9,967,326 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2015
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Hirschfeld, Robert Ari, Althaus, Gregory Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): TANG, KAREN C
• Application Number:
  US14/940,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20160072877A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 709217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• 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 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A cloud application management infrastructure models biological swarm behaviors to assign application resources to physical processing resources in a decentralized manner. A balanced and highly automated management of cloud infrastructure has a predictable and reliable response to changing resource loads by using a limited local rule set to define how application instances interact with available resources. Digital pheromone signals at physical resources are applied locally by a swarm module to determine if the physical resources provide an acceptable environment for an application and, if not, the application swarms to other environments until a suitable environment is found.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

plural information handling systems interfaced by a network, each information handling system having processing resources configured to run plural virtual machines;

plural virtual machines executing on each of the information handling system;

a list stored on each information handling system, the list defining a processing environment with one or more factors at the information handling system; and

plural agents, each agent assigned to a distinct virtual machine, each virtual machine having a distinct agent, each agent operable to retrieve the processing environment from the lists of the plural information handling systems through the network and to determine in a decentralized manner locally at the agent'"'"'s information handling system a selected of the plural processing resources for executing the virtual machine, each agent further operable to write one or more processing environment factors to the list of the agent'"'"'s information handling system;

wherein each agent determines an information handling system on which to execute the agent'"'"'s associated virtual machine at least in part by monitoring reports of failures by virtual machines to start at the plural information handling systems, weighting desirability of the plural information handling system resources and sorting the weights to select one of the plural information handling systems having a least cost.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the list comprises an allergen factor, the agent responding to the presence of an allergen factor in the list by moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource.

3. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the list comprises an aggregate value, the agent responding to an aggregation value of greater than a predetermined value by moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource.

4. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the list comprises an aggregate value, the agent responding to an aggregation value of less than a predetermined value by moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource.

5. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the list comprises a pheromone factor associated with a predetermined type of virtual machine, the agent responding to the lack of the pheromone factor in the list by moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource.

6. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the agent responds to an aggregate value of the pheromone factor in the list of greater than a predetermined valued by moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource.

7. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein each virtual machine generates one or more predetermined pheromone factors to add to the list of the processing resource that executes the virtual machine.

8. The information handling system of claim 7 wherein each virtual machine comprises plural applications, each application generating one or more predetermined pheromone factors.

9. A method for decentralized assignment of each of plural virtual machines to each of plural processing resources interfaced through a network, the method comprising:

listing factors at each of the plural processing resources of the virtual machines running on the processing resource;

evaluating the factors listed at each of the processing resources with an agent distinctly assigned to each virtual machine, the agent determining in a decentralized manner whether to execute the virtual machine at the processing resource or to move the virtual machine through the network to a different processing resource, each agent retrieving through the network the factors of the plural processing resources to apply to determine movement of the virtual machine from the agent'"'"'s processing resource, the factors including at least;

alerts received from other virtual machines of failed initiations at processing resources;

a list of available processing resources;

weights assigned by the agent for each processing resource of the list;

a sorted list of the weights; and

identification from the list of a least cost processing resource to initiate the virtual machine.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the factor comprises an allergen, the method further comprising:

determining the allergen applies to the virtual machine; and

moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource in response to the determining.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the factor comprises an aggregate of factors having less than a predetermined value, the method further comprising:

determining the aggregate applies to the virtual machine; and

moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource in response to the determining.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the factor comprises an aggregate of factors having greater than a predetermined value, the method further comprising:

determining the aggregate applies to the virtual machine; and

moving the virtual machine to a different processing resource in response to the determining.

13. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

searching for a predetermined factor stored at the processing resource;

failing to locate the factor at the processing resource; and

responding to the failing by moving the virtual machine from the processing resource through the network to another of the processing resources having the predetermined factor.

14. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

searching for a predetermined factor at the processing resource;

locating the predetermined factor at the processing resource; and

responding to the locating by initiating the virtual machine at the processing resource.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

determining that the predetermined factor has an aggregate greater than a predetermined value; and

responding to the determining by moving the virtual machine from the processing resource through the network to a different processing resource.

16. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

executing the virtual machine at the processing resource; and

in response to the executing, adding a factor associated with the container to the listing of factors.

17. A system for allocating a virtual machine to a processing resource of plural processing resources interfaced through a network, the system comprising:

non-transitory memory storing instructions including;

a list of environment factors at each processing resource, the environment factors defining an operating environment for each processing resource;

an agent distinct to each virtual machine and operable to analyze the environment factors of a processing resource to authorize or reject execution of the virtual machine at the processing resource, the agent further operable to retrieve the environment factors of distal processing resources to determine a processing resource to authorize execution of the virtual machine if the agent rejects the processing resource, the environment factors including at least reports sent through the network of failed initiations of virtual machines at processing resources by agents at the processing resources, the environment factors applied at the agent to sort processing resources by cost, the agent selecting a processing resource to initiate the virtual machine based upon the cost.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the environment factors comprise an allergen, the agent automatically rejecting execution of the virtual machine at the processing resource.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the environment factors comprise a pheromone, the agent automatically rejecting the execution of the container at the processing resource in the absence of the pheromone.