Estimating migration costs for migrating logical partitions within a virtualized computing environment based on a migration cost history

摘要

Responsive to a hypervisor determining that insufficient local resources are available for reservation to meet a performance parameter for at least one resource specified in a reservation request for a particular logical partition managed by the hypervisor in a host system, the hypervisor identifies another logical partition managed by the hypervisor in the host system that is assigned at the least one resource meeting the performance parameter specified in the reservation request. The hypervisor estimates a first cost of migrating the particular logical partition and a second cost of migrating the another logical partition to at least one other host system communicatively connected in a peer-to-peer network based on at least one previously recorded cost stored by the host system of migrating a previous logical partition to the at least one other host system.

主权项

1. A method for managing requests for resources, comprising:
responsive to a hypervisor determining that insufficient local resources are available for reservation to meet a performance parameter for at least one resource specified in a reservation request for a particular logical partition managed by the hypervisor in a host system, identifying another logical partition managed by the hypervisor in the host system that is assigned the at least one resource meeting the performance parameter specified in the reservation request; estimating, by the hypervisor, a first cost of migrating the particular logical partition and a second cost of migrating the another logical partition to at least one other host system communicatively connected in a peer-to-peer network based on at least one previously recorded cost stored by the host system of migrating a previous logical partition to the at least one other host system; storing, by the hypervisor, the first cost and the second cost in a history table with the at least one previously recorded cost, wherein each of the first cost, the second cost, and the at least one previously recorded cost is further specified with at least one of a source host system identifier, a destination host system identifier, and a logical partition identifier; receiving, by the hypervisor, at least one offer to migrate the migration candidate from at least one of the at least one other host system, wherein the at least one offer specifies at least one additional cost; storing, by the hypervisor, the at least one additional cost in the history table specified with the destination host system identifier for the at least one of the at least one other host system; and selecting, by the hypervisor, one of the particular logical partition and the another logical partition as a migration candidate based on a comparison of the first cost with the second cost, wherein the hypervisor negotiates for offers from the at least one other host system to migrate the migration candidate to the at least one other host system.