US 8,078,728 B1Granted

Capacity pooling for application reservation and delivery

AssigneeQuest Software, Inc.

InventorsC. Evan Pollan, Neal R. Prager, Sameer S. Jagtap

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Abstract

An application reservation and delivery system with capacity pooling including a logical resource pool, an application library, a resource manager, and a deployment manager. The logical resource pool includes computer resource assets which includes asset type, amount, and asset source in which each computer resource asset is decomposed to a specified level of granularity. The application library includes application configurations, each including at least one server configuration and computer resource asset requirements. The resource manager tracks availability of the computer resource assets, receives requests for specific application configurations for specified time periods, compares each requested application configuration with available computer resource assets at the specified time periods, and reserves resources for each requested application configuration during the specified time periods. The deployment manager deploys each requested application configuration using the reserved resources.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A data center system, comprising:

a shared network;
at least one dedicated virtualization host supporting at least one virtual machine coupled to said shared network;
at least one physical server coupled to said shared network;
and
an application reservation and delivery system, comprising:
a logical resource pool comprising a plurality of computer resource assets including asset type, amount, and asset source, in which each of said plurality of computer resource assets is decomposed to a specified level of granularity;
an application library comprising a plurality of application configurations, each of said application configurations comprising at least one server configuration which comprises computer resource asset requirements and which describes a configuration server, and a networking specification for the application configuration;
a resource manager, which receives requests for one of the application configurations for a specified future time period as compared to the time of the request, which compares said requested application configuration with available computer resource assets, which tracks availability of said computer resource assets over time for scheduling deployment of said requested application configuration at said future time period and which reserves resources for said requested application configuration when available during said future time period;
and
a deployment manager which deploys at least one server configured according to said requested application configuration using said reserved resources and which provides said at least one server to a remote user via the shared network during said future time period.

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A method of application reservation and delivery with capacity pooling, comprising:

providing at least one dedicated virtualization host supporting at least one virtual machine coupled to a shared network;
providing at least one physical server coupled to said shared network;
providing a logical resource pool having a plurality of computer resource assets including asset type, amount, and asset source;
decomposing each computer resource asset to a specified level of granularity;
defining, in an application library, a plurality of application configurations, each of said configurations comprising at least one server configuration which comprises computer resource asset requirements and which describes a configuration of a server, and a networking specification for the application configuration;
receiving by a resource manager, a request for one of the application configurations for a specified future time period as compared to the time of request, comparing, by the resource manager using a processing unit, the requested application configuration with available computer resource assets during the future time period, tracking by the resource manager, availability of said computer resource assets over time for scheduling deployment of said requested application configuration at said future time period and reserving, by the resource manager, resources for the requested application configuration when available during the future time period;
deploying, by the deployment manager, at least one server configured according to the requested application configuration using the reserved resources during the future time period;
and
providing the deployed server configured according to the requested application configuration to a remote user via the shared network during said future time period.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.