Resource management framework for holding auctions and applying service level characteristics in response to bids for resources

摘要

This invention outlines a method that distributes the decision-making process according to the application owners' needs, through the use of chip management and brokering technologies in an auction-like environment which allows for very fluid business need changes. This disclosure describes a master framework for a family of disclosures which allows consumers to more efficiently obtain, modify, and utilize computing resources from providers. These elemental biddable resources are obtained through several brokering algorithms and associated winning bid strategies which redefine how applications and businesses can receive the most appropriate service for the least cost, at the most appropriate interval. The resource management framework includes business units, buyer's agents, resource unit brokers, resource unit capacity planners, and resource allocation software, and an optional change and configuration manager.

主权项

1. A resource management framework, comprising:
a set of computer devices that includes at least one computer device and having: agents for receiving priorities and computing needs from buyers, and for programmatically determining, based on the priorities and computing needs received by the agents, whether a negotiation strategy for bidding that is cooperative or a negotiation strategy that is competitive will more effectively achieve the priorities and computing needs; and a resource unit broker for receiving bids from agents, wherein the bids reflect the determining, for applying service level characteristics to groups of resources in response to the bids, the service level characteristics comprising a combination of at least two different characteristics selected from a group consisting of: availability, performance, recoverability, security, scalability, and operational support; determining by the resource unit broker, after the bids have been received, a winning bid to apply the service level characteristics and determining whether any auctions and corresponding winning bids can be placed in isolation for any of the selected service level characteristics or determining whether to combine any of the auctions and corresponding winning bids in all or in part to achieve a holistic service level agreement when the agents are requesting similar or identical resources.