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US 9,882,827 B2Granted
Software defined infrastructures that encapsulate physical server resources into logical resource pools
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames J. Fall, Tammy L. Van Hove
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Abstract
A software defined infrastructure (SDI) makes available a subset of a computer server's resources to a cloud solution or workload. Multiple subsets of resources can be combined in a SDI to provide a logical resource pool. This allows cloud administrators to create software defined infrastructures derived from the partial capacity of a collection of systems. The resources defined across the physical boundaries of a computer server can then be made available to host deployment of cloud workloads. The infrastructure resource pool can be selected upon deployment of a cloud workload.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a memory coupled to the at least one processor;
- a software defined infrastructure mechanism (SDIM) residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor to operate in a cloud computing environment;
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- a software defined infrastructure (SDI) created and managed by the SDIM wherein the SDI comprises a logical resource pool having resources from a plurality of physical servers including a subset of resources available from each of the plurality of physical servers to provide the logical resource pool to a workload in the cloud environment, wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of license entitlement pools including at least one license entitlement pool from a plurality of physical servers where the at least one license entitlement pool from the plurality of physical servers comprises a subset of the license entitlement pools available on the physical server where the license entitlement pools of the physical server are divided into more than one SDI.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a memory coupled to the at least one processor;
- a software defined infrastructure mechanism (SDIM) residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor to operate in a cloud computing environment;
- a software defined infrastructure (SDI) created and managed by the SDIM wherein the SDI comprises a logical resource pool having resources from a plurality of physical servers including a subset of resources available from each of the plurality of physical servers to provide the logical resource pool to a workload in the cloud environment, wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of license entitlement pools including at least one license entitlement pool from a plurality of physical servers where the at least one license entitlement pool from the plurality of physical servers comprises a subset of the license entitlement pools available on the physical server where the license entitlement pools of the physical server are divided into more than one SDI;
- workloads deployed to the SDI, wherein the workloads use the subset of resources;
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- wherein the SDI includes a definition that includes a name and metadata that defines SDI characteristics which include an SDI category, quality of service, and resource consumption constraints.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a memory coupled to the at least one processor;
- a software defined infrastructure mechanism (SDIM) residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor to operate in a cloud computing environment;
- a software defined infrastructure (SDI) created and managed by the SDIM wherein the SDI comprises a logical resource pool having resources from a plurality of physical servers including a subset of resources available from each of the plurality of physical servers to provide the logical resource pool to a workload in the cloud environment, wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of license entitlement pools including at least one license entitlement pool from a plurality of physical servers where the at least one license entitlement pool from the plurality of physical servers comprises a subset of the license entitlement pools available on the physical server where the license entitlement pools of the physical server are divided into more than one SDI;
- workloads deployed to the SDI, wherein the workloads use the subset of resources;
- wherein the logical resource pool further comprises a plurality of virtual input/output servers (VIOS) located on a plurality of physical servers;
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- wherein the SDI includes a definition that includes a name and metadata that defines SDI characteristics which include an SDI category, quality of service, and resource consumption constraints.
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