SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF HOST-AWARE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INVOLVING CLUSTER-BASED RESOURCE POOLS

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed for managing resources associated with cluster-based resource pool(s). According to illustrative implementations, innovations herein may include or involve one or more of best fit algorithms, infrastructure based service provision, tolerance and/or ghost processing features, dynamic management service having monitoring and/or decision process features, as well as virtual machine and resource distribution features.

主权项

1. A method for processing information related to management of a cluster-based pool of resources comprising one or more clusters wherein each cluster comprises one or more hosts executing one or more virtual machines (VMs), the method comprising:
establishing a customer's resource requirement as a quantity of universal infrastructure units (IUs), wherein a universal infrastructure unit is defined as a function of processing speed and virtual machine memory size; processing first information regarding configuration of the clusters with highwater marks to accomplish site and cluster tolerance, the highwater marks reflecting divisions between usable space and tolerance space, and between the tolerance space and host space reserved to ensure host activity; processing second information regarding allocation of resource pools throughout the cluster usable space including handling of ghost pools located in unused tolerance space, the ghost pools being defined either on a host not containing a live pool associated with a customer or, when the customer has resource pools on all hosts in a cluster, on multiple hosts within the cluster; processing third information regarding use of the ghost pools during maintenance windows or node tolerance events; and processing fourth information regarding migration of virtual machines (VM's) assigned to the customer's resources back to originating pools, upon resumption of normal service.