Operations management apparatus of information-processing system
Information processing equipment and power/cooling facilities are managed together for power savings without degrading system processing performance. An operations management apparatus 60 is connected to an equipment group 20 1 to 20 q and facilities 40 1 to 40 u and 50 1 to 50 v . The operations management apparatus 60 includes: a database 64 which stores a history of positions and operation information 61 of the equipment group of 20 1 to 20 q and facilities 40 1 to 40 u and 50 1 to 50 v , and workloads 30 1 to 30 r of the equipment group of 20 1 to 20 q . An index value of workloads from the history is calculated and the workloads 30 1 to 30 r are allocated to the equipments 20 1 to 20 q . In addition, the operations management apparatus 60 allocates the workloads 30 1 to 30 r .
1. An operations management apparatus for an information-processing system having a plurality of information-processing equipments, comprising:
a first unit that obtains and stores a history of a time series variation in processing amounts of the information-processing equipments for each workload of the information-processing equipments by monitoring a first variable provided by the information-processing equipments;
a second unit that calculates a summary statistic including a central tendency and a dispersion of the processing amounts for the respective workloads of the information-processing equipments based on the history;
a third unit that preferentially allocates, in order, workloads to an information-processing equipment whose power efficiency is higher with respect to equipment performance among the information-processing equipments insofar as an expected value based on the summary statistic for workloads to be allocated to each information-processing equipment is within a threshold range preset for each information-processing equipment.
2. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the information-processing equipments are servers, and
wherein the first variable is a processor utilization.
3. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the information-processing equipments are servers, and
wherein the workloads are applications.
4. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the central tendency of the throughputs for the respective workloads is a moving average deviation of the throughputs for the respective workloads.
5. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the dispersion of the throughputs for the respective workloads is a standard deviation of the throughputs for the respective workloads.
6. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the information-processing equipment whose power efficiency is higher with respect to equipment performance among the information-processing equipments to which the third unit gives preference is an information processing equipment whose processing performance per unit power consumption is higher among the information-processing equipments.
7. The operations management equipment for the information-processing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the unit power consumption relating to each information-processing equipment is a unit power consumption relating to power consumed by each information-processing equipment.
8. The operations management equipment of an information-processing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the information-processing system includes cooling facilities that cool the information-processing equipments, and
wherein the unit power consumption relating to each information-processing equipment is a unit power consumption relating to power consumption for each information-processing equipment including equipment power consumed by each information-processing equipment and power consumed by the cooling facilities.
9. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 8 ,
wherein the cooling facilities include an air conditioner.
10. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the information-processing system includes facilities which feed power to the information-processing equipments, and
wherein the unit power consumption relating to each information-processing equipment is a unit power consumption relating to power consumption for each information-processing equipment including equipment power consumed by each information-processing equipment and power consumed by the facilities for supplying the equipment power.
11. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the information-processing system includes equipment for feeding power to the information-processing equipments and cooling the information-processing equipments, and
wherein the unit power consumption relating to each information-processing equipment is a unit power consumption relating to power consumption of each information-processing equipment including equipment power consumed by each information-processing equipment, power consumed by the facilities for supplying the equipment power, and for cooling the generated heat corresponding to the equipment power.
12. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the expected value is a value obtained by adding a constant multiple of a dispersion of the throughputs for the workloads to be allocated to each information-processing equipment to a central tendency of the throughputs for the workloads to be allocated to each information-processing equipment.
13. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 12 ,
wherein the central tendency of the throughputs for each of the workloads is a moving average deviation of the throughputs for each of the workloads,
wherein the dispersion of the throughputs for each of the workloads is a standard deviation of the throughputs for each of the workloads, and
wherein a constant of the constant multiple ranges from 1 to 3.
14. The operations management apparatus for the information-processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein a central tendency of the throughputs for each of the workloads is a moving average deviation of the throughputs for each of the workloads,
wherein a dispersion of the throughputs for each of the workloads is a standard deviation of the throughputs for each of the workloads, and
wherein, when a plurality of workloads are to be allocated to one of the information-processing equipments, the expected value relating to the one of the information-processing equipments is a value obtained by adding a constant multiple of combined standard deviation of the throughputs for the workloads to a combined moving average deviation of the throughputs for the workloads.