US 11,888,930 B1Granted

System and method for management of workload distribution for transitory disruption

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsOfir Ezrielev, Roman Bober, Yonit Lopatinski, Lior Gdaliahu, Eliyahu Rosenes

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Abstract

Methods and systems for managing workloads are disclosed. The workloads may be supported by operation of workload components that are hosted by infrastructure. The hosted locations of the workload components by the infrastructure may impact the performance of the workloads. To manage performance of the workloads, an optimization process may be performed to identify a migration plan for migrating some of the workload components to other infrastructure such as shared edge infrastructure and cloud infrastructure temporarily or permanently. Migration of the workload components may reduce the computing resource cost for performing various workloads and/or reduce workload performance disruptions.

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Dependent claims

A method for managing workload distribution across infrastructure, the method comprising:

identifying a workload performed by edge infrastructure for at least temporary migration to cloud infrastructure;
obtaining a graph representation of the workload;
obtaining a potential temporary migration plan using the graph representation, wherein the potential temporary migration plan comprises a timeline for reversion of the workload back to the edge infrastructure, and wherein the timeline specifies alternative ones of the edge infrastructure for the reversion of the workload from the cloud infrastructure based on satisfaction of one or more criterions at a time of reversion of the workload;
evaluating the potential temporary migration plan to obtain a workload performance estimate;
rating the potential temporary migration plan based on the workload performance estimate;
making a determination regarding whether to implement the potential temporary migration plan based at least in part on the rating of the potential temporary migration plan;
and
in an instance of the determination where the potential temporary migration plan is to be implemented:
temporarily migrating, based on the potential temporary migration plan, at least a portion of the workload from the edge infrastructure to the cloud infrastructure.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing workload distribution across infrastructure, the operations comprising:

identifying a workload performed by edge infrastructure for at least temporary migration to cloud infrastructure;
obtaining a graph representation of the workload;
obtaining a potential temporary migration plan using the graph representation;
evaluating the potential temporary migration plan to obtain a workload performance estimate;
rating the potential temporary migration plan based on the workload performance estimate, wherein the potential temporary migration plan comprises a timeline for reversion of the workload back to the edge infrastructure, and wherein the timeline specifies alternative ones of the edge infrastructure for the reversion of the workload from the cloud infrastructure based on satisfaction of one or more criterions at a time of reversion of the workload;
making a determination regarding whether to implement the potential temporary migration plan based at least in part on the rating of the potential temporary migration plan;
and
in an instance of the determination where the potential temporary migration plan is to be implemented:
temporarily migrating, based on the potential temporary migration plan, at least a portion of the workload from the edge infrastructure to the cloud infrastructure.

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A data processing system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing workload distribution across infrastructure, the operations comprising:
identifying a workload performed by edge infrastructure for at least temporary migration to cloud infrastructure;
obtaining a graph representation of the workload;
obtaining a potential temporary migration plan using the graph representation, wherein the potential temporary migration plan comprises a timeline for reversion of the workload back to the edge infrastructure, and wherein the timeline specifies alternative ones of the edge infrastructure for the reversion of the workload from the cloud infrastructure based on satisfaction of one or more criterions at a time of reversion of the workload;
evaluating the potential temporary migration plan to obtain a workload performance estimate;
rating the potential temporary migration plan based on the workload performance estimate;
making a determination regarding whether to implement the potential temporary migration plan based at least in part on the rating of the potential temporary migration plan;
and
in an instance of the determination where the potential temporary migration plan is to be implemented:
temporarily migrating, based on the potential temporary migration plan, at least a portion of the workload from the edge infrastructure to the cloud infrastructure.

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