US 10,708,356 B2Granted

Cloud computing system and method for managing storage resources therein

AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

InventorsLi Wang, Yizhen Xu, Xiaoming Wu

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Abstract

A cloud computing system and a method therein. The cloud computing system includes: a resource server cluster, where the resource server cluster includes at least two resource servers, each resource server in the resource server cluster has at least one type of resources of computing resources and storage resources, and at least one resource server in the resource server cluster has computing resources and storage resources; a computing resource management module configured to manage the computing resources in the resource server cluster, so as to provide a virtual computing service; and a storage resource management module configured to manage a shared storage resource pool established using the storage resources in the resource server cluster, so as to provide a virtual storage service, where storage resources included in each storage resource pool are from at least two resource servers in the resource server cluster.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A cloud computing system, comprising:

multiple servers configured to provide resources in the cloud computing system, wherein the resources of the multiple servers comprise computing resources and storage resources, wherein at least one of the multiple servers provides both the computing resources and the storage resources, wherein a first server in the cloud computing system is configured to manage the computing resources provided by the multiple servers, wherein a second server of the multiple servers is configured to obtain respective storage information from a first plurality of servers having storage resources and create a shared storage resource pool across the first plurality of servers based on the obtained respective storage information, wherein the shared storage resource pool comprises resources provided by multiple local storage devices included in the first plurality of servers, wherein the shared storage resource pool is created based on a granularity of a single disk, wherein the shared storage resource pool is enabled to scale up based on the granularity of the single disk, wherein computing resources of a virtual machine are allocated from one or more of the servers that provide the computing resources, and wherein storage resources of the virtual machine are allocated from the shared storage resource pool.

A method for allocating resources in a cloud computing system, wherein the cloud computing system includes multiple servers providing resources, wherein the resources of the multiple servers comprise computing resources and storage resources, wherein at least one of the multiple servers provides both the computing resources and the storage resources, and wherein the method comprises:

managing, by a first server in the cloud computing system, the computing resources provided by the multiple servers;
obtaining, by a second server of the multiple servers, respective storage information from a first plurality of servers having storage resources;
and
creating, by the second server, a shared storage resource pool across the first plurality of servers based on the obtained respective storage information,
wherein the shared storage resource pool is created based on a granularity of a single disk,
wherein the shared storage resource pool is enabled to scale up based on the granularity of the single disk,
wherein computing resources of a virtual machine are allocated from one or more servers that provide the computing resources, and
wherein storage resources of the virtual machine are allocated from the shared storage resource pool.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to be configured to:

manage, in a cloud computing system, computing resources provided by multiple servers included in the cloud computing system;
obtain respective storage information from a first plurality of servers having storage resources;
and
create a shared storage resource pool across the first plurality of servers based on the obtained respective storage information,
wherein the shared storage resource pool includes resources provided by multiple local storage devices included in the first plurality of servers,
wherein the shared storage resource pool is created based on granularity of a single disk,
wherein the shared storage resource pool is enabled to scale up based on the granularity of the single disk,
wherein computing resources of a virtual machine are allocated from one or more servers that provide computing resources, and
wherein storage resources of the virtual machine are allocated from the shared storage resource pool.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/460,658Filed 16 Mar 2017 · continuation
Priority: 29 Dec 2011
Published: US 2017/0187806 A129 Jun 2017
Granted: 7 Jul 2020
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Classification14 codes

H04L 67/1097
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for…
G06F 3/0604
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
G06F 3/0605
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management: by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
G06F 3/0644
Organizing or formatting or addressing of data: management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools

Family

PCT/CN2011/084925Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Dec 2011
Application14/307,560Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Jun 2014
US 2017/0187806 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Jun 2017
US 9,635,097 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0297733 A1Published application
US 10,708,356 B2This patent

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