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US 7,734,787 B2Granted
Method and system for managing quality of service in a network
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorRobert L. Huff
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Abstract
According to embodiments, the present invention comprises a method and system for managing support of quality of service requirements for various clients of a telecommunications network at a server level. Servers assigned to the various clients may include quality of service descriptors that identify relative priorities of the clients. In the event of a failure or reduced performance of a server, for example, an assignment of respective servers to respective clients may be changed based on the relative priorities of the respective clients.
Claims6
A method of managing blade servers in a data center, the method comprising:
- having a computer system with storage medium containing a software module of a server manager when executed will carry out steps as followed;
- assigning by the server manager respective sets of quality of service values to respective blade servers in a set of multiple blade servers, each blade server comprising a processor, memory and at least one embedded register to store the set of quality of service values comprising a customer identifier, a service identifier, and a quality of service identifier;
- transmitting, from the server manager, the respective sets of quality service values to the respective blade servers in the set of multiple blade servers;
- storing, by the server manager, the respective sets of quality of services values and the respective assigned blade servers in a database;
- receiving, by the server manager, from the set of multiple blade servers data to monitor performance of the respective blade servers with respect to the respective sets of quality of service values;
- based on the monitoring, determining a first one of the respective blade servers has failed to provide a sufficient quality of service for a first set of quality of service values having a first customer identifier assigned to the first one of the respective blade servers;
- and
- based on the determining:
- determining a second one of the respective blade servers has an assigned second set of quality service values having a quality of service identifier having a lower priority than a quality of service identifier of the first set of quality service values, the second set of quality service values identifying a different customer identifier than the first set of quality service values;
- selecting the second one of the respective blade servers;
- and
- reassigning the first set of quality service values to the second one of the respective blade servers.
9 more elements
A machine-readable storage medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, which when executed implement a process comprising:
- assigning by a server manager respective sets of quality of service values to respective blade servers in a set of multiple blade servers, each blade server comprising a processor, memory and at least one embedded register to store the set of quality of service values comprising a customer identifier, a service identifier, and a quality of service identifier;
- transmitting, from the server manager, the respective sets of quality service values to the respective blade servers in the set of multiple blade servers;
- storing, by the server manager, the respective sets of quality of services values and the respective assigned blade servers in a database;
- receiving, by the server manager, from the set of multiple blade servers data to monitor performance of the respective blade servers with respect to the respective sets of quality of service values;
- based on the monitoring, determining a first one of the respective blade servers has failed to provide a sufficient quality of service for g a first set of quality of service values having a first customer identifier assigned to the first one of the respective blade servers;
- and
- based on the determining:
- determining a second one of the respective blade servers has an assigned second set of quality service values having a quality of service identifier having a lower priority than a quality of service identifier of the first set of quality service values, the second set of quality service values identifying a different customer identifier than the first set of quality service values;
- selecting the second one of the respective blade servers;
- and
- reassigning the first set of quality service values to the second one of the respective blade servers the second one of the respective blade servers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.