Specifying a disaggregated compute system

Apparatus for assigning resources in a compute environment, comprising:

• one or more hardware processors;
• computer memory holding computer program instructions executed by the one or more hardware processors and configured to:
• manage a set of server resource pools, wherein a server resource pool comprises a set of resources of a common type;
• responsive to receipt of a request, define a server entity composed of one or more resources selected from two or more of the server resource pools, the server resource pools being a compute pool, and a memory pool, wherein the one or more resources are selected from the two or more of the server resource pools based on a workload associated with the request;
• associate a unique server identifier to the server entity and to the request;
• provide the unique server identifier to each of the one or more resources in the server entity, thereby allocating the one or more resources to the server entity;
• at a resource of the one or more resources that receives the request, act on the request upon verifying that the unique server identifier associated to the request matches the unique server identifier of the server entity to which the resource is allocated;
• receive information collected from monitoring the one or more resources as the workload is processed;
• and
• based on the monitoring, adjust a composition of the server entity based on a change in the workload.

A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium for use in a data processing system for assigning resources in a compute environment, the computer program product holding computer program instructions executed in the data processing system and configured to:

• manage a set of server resource pools, wherein a server resource pool comprises a set of resources of a common type;
• responsive to receipt of a request, define a server entity composed of one or more resources selected from two or more of the server resource pools, the server resource pools being a compute pool, and a memory pool, wherein the one or more resources are selected from the two or more of the server resource pools based on a workload associated with the request;
• associate a unique server identifier to the server entity and to the request;
• provide the unique server identifier to each of the one or more resources in the server entity, thereby allocating the one or more resources to the server entity;
• at a resource of the one or more resources that receives the request, act on the request upon verifying that the unique server identifier associated to the request matches the unique server identifier of the server entity to which the resource is allocated;
• receive information collected from monitoring the one or more resources as the workload is processed;
• and
• based on the monitoring, adjust a composition of the server entity based on a change in the workload.

A data center facility, comprising:

• a set of server resource pools, the server resource pools comprising at least a compute pool, and a memory pool;
• at least one disaggregated compute system comprising processors selected from the compute pool, computer memories selected from the memory pool, and an optical interconnect;
• a database that stores a unique server identifier defining the at least one disaggregated compute system, the unique server identifier being associated in the database with a resource-specific identifier for each of the processors and computer memories in the at least one disaggregated compute system, wherein the resource-specific identifier providing one of:
• a status of a resource, an attribute of the resource, and a relationship of the resource to one or more other resources;
• and
• a tracking system responsive to workload changes in the at least one disaggregated compute system to selectively adjust a composition of the processors or the computer memories therein according to workload demand;
• the at least one disaggregated compute system including a given resource selected from the server resource pools configured to receive and act on a request upon verifying that the unique server identifier associated to that request matches the unique server identifier of the at least one disaggregated compute system to which the given resource is allocated;
• the unique server identifier and resource-specific identifiers associated with the unique server identifier being updated in the database to reflect adjustment of the composition of the at least one disaggregated compute system.