US 11,237,856 B2Granted

Mobility operation resource allocation

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsMaria Garza, Neal R. Marion, Nathaniel S. Tomsic, Vasu Vallabhaneni

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Abstract

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for mobility operation resource allocation is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request to migrate a running application from a first machine to a second machine; displaying an adjustable resource allocation mobility setting interface indicating a plurality of mobility settings comprising at least one performance-based mobility setting and at least one concurrency-based mobility setting; receiving, via the interface, a selection of a mobility setting defining a resource allocation to utilize for the migration; and migrating the running application from the first machine to the second machine utilizing resources as set by the selected mobility setting.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving a request to migrate a running instance of an operating system and an application from a first machine to a second machine;
displaying an adjustable resource allocation mobility setting interface indicating a plurality of mobility settings comprising at least one performance-based mobility setting and at least one concurrency-based mobility setting, the performance-based mobility setting and the concurrency-based mobility setting used for resource allocation to apply for mobility operations for the migration, the performance-based mobility setting defining a first resource allocation and the concurrency-based mobility setting defining a second resource allocation different than the first resource allocation, the first resource allocation providing access to greater memory and processing resources than the second resource allocation to facilitate a first rate of migration of a partition, and wherein the second resource allocation provides access to lesser memory and processing resources than the first resource allocation to facilitate a desired quantity of concurrent partition migrations at a second rate less than the first rate;
receiving, via the interface, a selection of a mobility setting defining the resource allocation to utilize for the migration;
allocating resources according to the selected mobility setting;
migrating the running instance of the operating system and the application from the first machine to the second machine utilizing the resources as set by the selected mobility setting;
and
negotiating a balance of resource allocations between the first machine and the second machine based on the selected mobility setting.

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A method, comprising:

receiving a request to migrate a plurality of logical partitions from a first machine to a second machine, each logical partition comprising a running instance of an operating system;
displaying an adjustable resource allocation mobility setting interface indicating a plurality of mobility settings, each mobility setting corresponding to a desired resource allocation to apply for mobility operations for the migration, wherein the plurality of mobility settings each define a different resource allocation providing varied access to memory and processing resources;
receiving, via the interface, a first mobility setting to apply to a first set of logical partitions of the plurality of logical partitions and a second mobility setting to apply to a second set of logical partitions of the plurality of logical partitions;
allocating first resources for the migration of the first set of logical partitions according to the first mobility setting;
allocating second resources for the migration of the second set of logical partitions according to the second mobility setting;
migrating the first and second sets of logical partitions from the first machine to the second machine utilizing the resource allocations as set by the respective first and second mobility settings;
and
negotiating a balance of resource allocations between the first machine and the second machine based on the respective first and second mobility settings.

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A method, comprising:

receiving a request to migrate from a first machine to a second machine a plurality of logical partitions (LPARs) each running an instance of an operating system and an application;
displaying an interface comprising a plurality of selectable mobility settings, each mobility setting corresponding to a desired resource allocation to apply for mobility operations for the migration, wherein a first mobility setting sets a first resource allocation to accommodate a desired rate of migration, and wherein a second mobility setting sets a second resource allocation to accommodate a desired concurrency of LPAR migrations;
receiving, via the interface, a selection of a mobility setting to apply for migrating the LPARs;
allocating resources for the migration of the LPARs according to the selected mobility setting;
migrating the LPARs from the first machine to the second machine utilizing resources as set by the selected mobility setting;
and
negotiating a balance of resource allocations between the first machine and the second machine based on the selected mobility setting.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/870,645Filed 30 Sep 2015 · continuation
Priority: 7 Nov 2012
Published: US 2016/0019088 A121 Jan 2016
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
G06F 3/048
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: interaction techniques based on graphical…
G06F 9/00
Arrangements for program control
G06F 9/4856
Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution: resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine…

Family

Application13/671,422Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Nov 2012
US 2016/0019088 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Jan 2016
US 9,166,865 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0129958 A1Published application
US 11,237,856 B2This patent

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