US 2014/0351412 A1 · DETERMINING AND MONITORING PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES OF A COMPUTER RESOURCE SERVICE

Abstract

To determine and monitor the performance of a computer resource service in real time, a resource monitoring tool can initiate test virtual machines on the computer systems of the computer resource service. The resource monitoring tool can then monitor various metrics that indicated the performance of the test virtual machines over time, such as processor performance, memory performance, input/output (I/O) performance, and network performance. The resource monitoring tool can store the monitored metrics, provide select metrics to users, and use the metrics to manage the computer resource service. To accurately gauge the performance, the resource monitoring tool can select computer systems for testing that are representative of the computer resource service and the computer resources of the computer resource service.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions for causing one or more processors to perform a method for determining performance of a computer resource service, the method comprising:

determining a set of computer systems on which to test the performance of the computer resource service, the set of computer systems comprising at least one of first computer systems and at least one of second computer systems, wherein the first computer systems are located at a first location and the second computer systems are located at a second location;
initiating at least one virtual machine on each computer system in the set of computer systems, wherein the at least one virtual machine on each computer system is configured according to a first configuration;
determining performance metrics of the at least one virtual machine executing on each computer system in the set of computer systems;
and
storing, for the at least one virtual machine, a record comprising the performance metrics, the first configuration of the at least one virtual machine, and location information of each computer system executing the at least one virtual machine.

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A system for determining performance of a computer resource service, the system comprising:

at least one memory device comprising instructions;
a network interface configured to communicate with the computer resource service, the computer resource service comprising computer systems;
and
at least one processor coupled at least one memory device and network interface and configured to execute the instructions to perform a method comprising:
determining a set of the computer systems on which to test the performance of the computer resource service, wherein each computer system in the set of the computer systems is representative of at least one of a location distribution of the computer systems and a difference in computer resources of the computer systems;
initiating at least one virtual machine on each computer system in the set of the computer systems;
monitoring, via the network interface, performance metrics of the at least one virtual machine executing on each computer systems in the set of computer systems;
and
storing, in a computer readable storage medium, the performance metrics.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Determining and monitoring performance capabilities of a computer resource service

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Abstract

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