SOFTWARE DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURES THAT ENCAPSULATE PHYSICAL SERVER RESOURCES INTO LOGICAL RESOURCE POOLS

摘要

A software defined infrastructure (SDI) makes available a subset of a computer server's resources to a cloud solution or workload. Multiple subsets of resources can be combined in a SDI to provide a logical resource pool. This allows cloud administrators to create software defined infrastructures derived from the partial capacity of a collection of systems. The resources defined across the physical boundaries of a computer server can then be made available to host deployment of cloud workloads. The infrastructure resource pool can be selected upon deployment of a cloud workload.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a software defined infrastructure manager (SDIM) residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor to operate in a cloud computing environment; and a software defined infrastructure (SDI) created and managed by the SDIM that provides a logical resource pool having a subset of resources available from a plurality of physical servers to a workload in the cloud environment, wherein the logical resource pool comprises at least one virtual input/output server (VIOS) on the at least one physical server.