Resource provisioning method

• US 9,999,030 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2015
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gu, Jiongjiong, Huang, Chaoyi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bullock, Jr., Lewis A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dascomb, Jacob D
• Application Number:
  US14/812,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20150334696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,049 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0897 by horizontal or vertical scaling of resources, or by migrating entities, e.g. virtual resources or entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• 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 47/24 Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/001 Synchronization between nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provides a resource provisioning method, including: receiving, by a first data center, a resource request message, where the first data center is any data center that receives the resource request message in the system; obtaining, by the first data center and by analyzing the resource request message, at least two destination data centers that provision resources; creating a virtual network; creating a virtual machine for the at least two destination data centers; and adding the virtual machine to the virtual network. By implementing the method, the resource utilization of a data center is improved, administration, maintenance, and operation are simplified, and an occurrence probability of network connection fault or traffic congestion is reduced.

Claims

1. A resource provisioning method applied to a distributed data center system with at least two data centers, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first data center, a resource request message, wherein the first data center is any data center that receives the resource request message in the distributed data center system, and the resource request message comprises a tenant identifier and a resource template identifier;

obtaining, by the first data center, resource template information according to the tenant identifier and the resource template identifier, wherein the resource template information includes a network resource specification parameter;

obtaining, by the first data center, a destination data center list according to the resource template information and the tenant identifier, wherein the destination data center list comprises the first data center and a second data center;

creating, by the first data center, a virtual network according to the tenant identifier and a network name in the network resource specification parameter, wherein creating the virtual network comprises;

1) determining, by the first data center through analyzing the resource template information, one or more destination data center for which a virtual subnet needs to be created, wherein the one or more destination data center includes the first data center;

2) creating, by the first data center, the virtual subnet according to the tenant identifier, the identifier of the virtual network, and a subnet name in the network resource specification parameter; and

3) synchronizing, by the first data center, information about the virtual subnet to the second data center in the destination data center list, wherein the information includes the tenant identifier, the subnet name, and identifiers of the virtual network and the virtual subnet;

sending, by the first data center, a request to the second data center for creating a virtual machine and adding the virtual machine to the virtual network, wherein the request includes a virtual machine specification identifier indicating one or more virtual machine specification; and

receiving, by the first data center, an identifier (ID) of the virtual machine from the second data center.

2. The resource provisioning method according to claim 1,

further comprising:

synchronizing, by the first data center, information about the virtual network to the second data center, wherein the information about the virtual network includes the tenant identifier, the network name, and an identifier of the virtual network.

3. The resource provisioning method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more destination data center comprises the second data center, and the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the first data center, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) IP address pool and a subnet gateway IP address for the second data center by performing DHCP IP address pool division and gateway IP address setting according to a cross-data-center subnet division mode in the destination data center list; and

sending, by the first data center, a request for creating a virtual subnet to the second data center, wherein the request includes the tenant identifier, the identifier of the virtual network, the subnet name, the identifier of the virtual subnet, and, the DHCP IP address pool and the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center.

4. The resource provisioning method according to claim 3, wherein the method further comprises:

determining, by the second data center, that the virtual subnet indicated in the request already exists, and creating a virtual service gateway (VSG) in the second data center.

5. The resource provisioning method according to claim 4, wherein the creating the VSG in the second data center comprises:

adding, by a VSG manager in the second data center, a gateway service and a DHCP service to a software service gateway managed by the VSG manager based on the identifier of the virtual subnet indicated in the request, and, the DHCP IP address pool and the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center.

6. The resource provisioning method according to claim 5, wherein the adding the gateway service and the DHCP service comprises:

when a VSG virtual machine that already has a gateway service capability is capable of providing a VSG service for a new virtual subnet, adding a network adapter to the VSG virtual machine, setting an internet protocol (IP) address of the network adapter to the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center, enabling the DHCP service, and configuring an IP address of the DHCP service to the DHCP IP address pool for the second data center.

7. The resource provisioning method according to claim 6, further comprising:

determining, by the second data center, whether the VSG virtual machine has been added to the virtual subnet indicated by the request and when the VSG virtual machine is not added to the virtual subnet indicated by the request creating a port on the virtual subnet indicated by the request and binding the VSG virtual machine to the port.

8. The resource provisioning method according to claim 5, wherein the adding the gateway service and the DHCP service comprises:

creating a new VSG virtual machine, adding a first network adapter and a second network adapter in the created VSG virtual machine, enabling the DHCP service, and configuring the DHCP IP address pool for the second data center;

wherein;

the first network adapter is used to connect to an external network to obtain an IP address from the external network or the IP address of the first network adapter is configured to a fixed IP address;

the second network adapter is used to connect to a virtual subnet; and

an IP address of the second network adapter is configured to the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center, which is carried in the request for creating the virtual subnet.

9. The resource provisioning method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

when a VSG virtual machine that already has a gateway service capability is capable of providing a VSG service for a new virtual subnet, adding, by the VSG manager in the second data center, a network adapter to the VSG virtual machine, and setting an internet protocol (IP) address of the network adapter to a first IP address in the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center.

10. The resource provisioning method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

enabling a DHCP service, configuring an IP address of the DHCP service to the DHCP IP address pool for the second data center, and binding the DHCP service with the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center.

11. The resource provisioning method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

creating, by the VSG manager in the second data center, a new VSG virtual machine, adding a network adapter, wherein the network adapter is used to connect to the virtual subnet; and

configuring, by the VSG manager in the second data center, an internet protocol (IP) address of the network adapter to a first IP address in the subnet gateway IP address for the second data center.

12. The resource provisioning method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the second data center, the request from the first data center;

obtaining, by the second data center, the one or more virtual machine specifications based on the virtual machine specification identifier;

identifying, by the second data center, a host to create the virtual machine based on the one or more virtual machine specifications; and

creating, by the second data center, the virtual machine on the host.

13. The resource provisioning method according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

adding, by the second data center, the virtual machine to the virtual network.

14. The resource provisioning method according to claim 13, wherein the adding the virtual machine to the virtual network comprises:

obtaining, by the second data center, information about the virtual subnet according to a subnet ID carried in a request for creating a port, wherein the information about the virtual subnet includes the tenant identifier, the network name, and an identifier of the virtual network;

creating a port for the virtual machine on the virtual subnet according to the information about the virtual subnet; and

binding the virtual machine to the port.

15. The resource provisioning method according to claim 14, further comprising:

synchronizing, by the second data center, a mapping relationship between the ID of the virtual machine and an ID of the port to the first data center.

16. The resource provisioning method according to claim 12, further comprising:

selecting, by the second data center, a storage resource, and creating a storage volume meeting a Quality of Service (QoS) level of disk access and a storage size on the selected storage resource;

attaching, by the second data center, the storage volume to the virtual machine;

creating an association between an ID of the storage volume and the ID of the virtual machine, and generating an association identifier; and

synchronizing the ID of the virtual machine, the ID of the storage volume, and the association identifier to the first data center.

17. The resource provisioning method according to claim 1, wherein when the resource request message comprises a cross-data-center resource allocation policy, the method further comprises:

analyzing at least two destination data centers according to the cross-data-center resource allocation policy; and

obtaining a destination data center that complies with the cross-data-center resource allocation policy.

18. A first data center in a distributed data center system, the first data center comprising:

a non-transitory, processor readable storage medium storing executable instructions; and

a processor connected to the storage medium for executing the instructions that cause the processor to;

1) receive a resource request message and obtain a resource parameter of a second data center according to the resource request message wherein the resource parameter of the second data center comprises a virtual machine description parameter list, a network resource specification parameter, a tenant identifier, and a resource template identifier;

2) obtain, by the first data center, resource template information according to the virtual machine description parameter list, network specification parameter, tenant identifier, and the resource template identifier, wherein the resource template information includes a network resource specification parameter;

3) obtain, by the first data center, a destination data center list according to the resource template information and the tenant identifier, wherein the destination data center list comprises the first data center and a second data center;

4) create a virtual network according to the tenant identifier and a network name in the network resource specification parameter by;

a) determining one or more destination data centers for which a virtual subnet needs to be created, wherein the one or more destination data center includes the first data center,

b) creating the virtual subnet according to the tenant identifier, an identifier of the virtual network, and a subnet name in the network resource specification parameter, and

c) synchronizing information about the virtual subnet to the second data center in a destination data center list, wherein the information includes the tenant identifier, the subnet name, and identifiers of the virtual network and the virtual subnet;

5) send a create request message to the second data center for creating a virtual machine according to the resource template information, and add the virtual machine to the virtual subnet; and

6) receive an identifier (ID) of the virtual machine from the second data center.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein:

the first data center is further configured to;

obtain a set of data center lists associated with the tenant identifier; and

obtain the resource parameter of the second data center according to the resource request message by;

selecting a destination data center list according to the set of data center lists and the resource parameter associated with the resource template identifier; and

obtaining a resource parameter of each destination data center in the destination data center list, wherein the destination data center list comprises the second data center, and the resource parameters of the destination data centers in the destination data center list comprise the resource parameter of the second data center.

20. The system according to claim 18, wherein that the first data center is further configured to:

send a request for creating the virtual subnet to the second data center, wherein the request for creating the virtual subnet carries the network resource specification parameter of the second data center; and

send a request for creating a virtual machine to the second data center, wherein the request for creating the virtual machine carries the virtual machine description parameter list of the second data center.

21. The system according to claim 18, wherein:

the first data center is further configured to perform, according to a data center identifier list of the virtual subnet and a cross-data-center subnet division mode, internet protocol (IP) address pool division dividing to obtain an IP address pool and subnet gateway IP address setting to obtain a subnet gateway IP address for the second data center, wherein the network resource specification parameter of the second data center comprises the subnet gateway IP address and the IP address pool; and

the second data center is configured to create a virtual service gateway in the second data center according to the subnet gateway IP address and the IP address pool.

22. The system according to claim 21, wherein the second data center comprises:

a virtual service gateway (VSG) manager configured to add, according to the subnet gateway IP address and the IP address pool, a gateway service and a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service to a software service gateway managed by the VSG manager.

23. The system according to claim 22, wherein that the VSG manager is configured to add, according to the subnet gateway IP address and the IP address pool, the gateway service and the DHCP service to the software service gateway managed by the VSG manager comprises one of the following:

when a VSG virtual machine that already has a gateway service capability is capable of providing a VSG service for the virtual subnet, a network adapter is added to the VSG virtual machine, an IP address of the network adapter is set to the subnet gateway IP address, the DHCP service is enabled, and the IP address pool is configured; and

create a VSG virtual machine, add a network adapter to the VSG virtual machine, enable the DHCP service, and configure the IP address pool, wherein the network adapter is used to connect to the virtual subnet, and an IP address of the network adapter is configured to the subnet gateway IP address.

24. The system according to claim 18, wherein the first data center is further configured to:

select a storage resource;

create a storage volume meeting a Quality of Service (QoS) level of disk access and a storage size on the selected storage resource;

attach the storage volume to a virtual machine associated with a virtual machine identifier;

create an association between the volume identifier and the virtual machine identifier;

generate an association identifier; and

synchronize the virtual machine identifier, the volume identifier, and the association identifier to another destination data center.

25. The system according to claim 18, wherein the second data center is configured to:

obtain information about the virtual subnet according to a subnet ID carried in a request for creating a port;

create a port for the virtual machine on the virtual subnet according to the information about the virtual subnet; and

bind the virtual machine to the port.