US 2022/0019482 A1 · PREDICTIVE SCALING OF DATACENTERS

Abstract

Examples described herein include systems and methods for efficiently scaling an SDDC. An example method can include storing resource utilization information for a variety of resources of the SDDC. The example method can also include predicting a future resource utilization rate for the resources and determining that a predicted utilization rate is outside of a desired range. The system can determine how long it would take to perform the scaling, including adding or removing a host and performing related functions such as load balancing or data transfers. The system can also determine how long the scaling is predicted to benefit the SDDC to ensure that the benefit is sufficient to undergo the scaling operation. If the expected benefit is greater than the benefit threshold, the system can perform the scaling operation.

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Dependent claims

A system for efficiently scaling a software defined datacenter (SDDC), comprising:

a memory storage including a non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions;
and
a computing device including a hardware-based processor that executes the instructions to carry out stages comprising:
storing resource utilization information for a plurality of resources of the SDDC;
predicting a future resource utilization rate for each of the plurality of resources;
determining that the predicted resource utilization rate of at least one of the resources is outside a desired range;
determining a first time period required for scaling the SDDC such that the predicted resource utilization rate of the at least one resource remains inside the desired range;
predicting a second time period beginning after the first time period and extending to a time at which the scaling would no longer be necessary to maintain the resource utilization rate of the at least one resource within the desired range;
comparing the second time period to a benefit threshold;
and
if the second time period is greater than the benefit threshold, scaling the SDDC.

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Predictive scaling of datacenters

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