Software defined infrastructures that encapsulate physical server resources into logical resource pools
View Patent ↗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.
1. A computer-implemented method executed by at least one processor for creating and managing a software defined infrastructure (SDI), the method comprising:
creating the SDI, wherein the SDI comprises a logical resource pool having resources from a plurality of physical servers including a subset of physical resources available from each of the plurality of physical servers to provide the logical resource pool to a workload in a cloud computing environment;
identifying physical servers to provide compute resources to the SDI;
identifying unallocated resources from the physical servers;
selecting unallocated resources for the SDI from the identified unallocated resources; and
allocating at least one of the unallocated resources to the SDI wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of virtual input/output servers (VIOS) including at least one VIOS from a plurality of physical servers where the at least one VIOS from the plurality of physical servers comprises a subset of the VIOSs available on the physical server where the VIOSs of the physical server are divided into more than one SDI.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the logical resource pool comprises at least one virtual input/output server (VIOS).
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of virtual input/output servers (VIOS) located on a plurality of physical servers.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the logical resource pool comprises at least one license entitlement pool.
5. The method of claim 1 further comprising deploying workloads to the SDI, wherein the workloads use the subset of resources.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the subset of resources comprises at least one logical partition for provisioning client workloads.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the logical partition is a dynamic logical partition that can be dynamically managed to meet a service level agreement.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the SDI includes a definition that includes a name and metadata that defines SDI characteristics, wherein the metadata includes an SDI category, quality of service, and resource consumption constraints.
9. A computer-implemented method executed by at least one processor for creating and managing a software defined infrastructure (SDI), the method comprising:
creating the SDI, wherein the SDI comprises a logical resource pool having resources from a plurality of physical servers including a subset of physical resources available from each of the plurality of physical servers to provide the logical resource pool to a workload in a cloud computing environment;
identifying physical servers to provide compute resources to the SDI;
identifying unallocated resources from the physical servers;
selecting unallocated resources for the SDI including unallocated resources selected by an administrator;
allocating the selected unallocated resources to the SDI;
deploying workloads to the SDI;
wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of virtual input/output servers (VIOS) including at least one VIOS from a plurality of physical servers where the at least one VIOS from the plurality of physical servers comprises a subset of the VIOSs available on the physical server where the VIOSs of the physical server are divided into more than one SDI; and
wherein the SDI includes a definition that includes a name and metadata that defines SDI characteristics, wherein the metadata includes an SDI category, quality of service, and resource consumption constraints.