International Business Machines Corporation

Michael George Polan

Alex Kwok Kee Tsui

Jingrong Gao

Andrew Neil Trossman

Paul Darius Vytas

Paul Ming Chen

Geyu Li

John Wright Stephenson

Ming Chen

Tack Tong

Andrei Oprea

Jianfeng Kong

C Razvan Peteanu

Dean M Hildebrand

Gabi Rothenstein

Alice T Yeung

Anthony D Lindsay

Wai Kit Jerry Tsui

Alex K Tsui

Paul (Ming) Chen

Arnold Rosen

Marika Joannidis

Stephen P Roberts

Access of data center resources is provided by the present invention using stateless and stateful Web services. For stateless Web services, the present invention provides an invoker API that allows a client to invoke a specific resource and perform an operation on the resource. For stateful Web services, the present invention provides a Web Service Definition file that defines attributes and operations for data center resources. The client may access an instance of a Web service resource once an endpoint reference is obtained from the server. Since the resource instance is persistent, the client may invoke data center operations and manipulate the resource attributes accordingly.

managing data center using web services

There is provided in an embodiment of the present invention a method wherein a processor may receive a test configuration deployment plan (TCDP) template. A user may select the test configuration deployment plan template and provide time schedule, and specific software application names and version numbers as settings for variables within the test configuration deployment plan template, in effect making a subscription request, wherein the processor receives or otherwise prompts to receive such information. Provided such resources are available at the requested time, the processor may wait until that time and provision the test configuration deployment plan to a data center resource. Test cases are run and results are collected until time or test cases are exhausted. The processor may then release resources that had been allocated to the subscription, which may include a step of undeploying or unprovisioning.

Managing test results in a data center

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for deploying and instantiating multiple instances of applications in automated data centers using an application deployment template. A first mechanism is provided to deploy multiple instances of applications using an application deployment plan template. The first mechanism uses deployment parameter sets to generate corresponding deployment plans based on the deployment template. A second mechanism is provided to instantiate multiple instances of applications using deployment plan templates. A service catalog that is exposed to consumers for selection of catalog items is built on top of the second mechanism. During the cataloging and order fulfillment process, the second mechanism instantiates multiple instances of applications using the generated deployment plans and an application model to deploy multiple application instances. An existing order may also be modified or terminated responsive to a user request or service term expiration.

Deploying and instantiating multiple instances of applications in automated data centers using application deployment template

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively and programmatically provisioning resources on a computer network. A role-based access manager discovers one or more network resources. A provisioning manager then provisions the discovered network resources.

Provisioning of resources in a computer network

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for managing automated resource provisioning management systems. In an embodiment, the method begins by receiving a plurality of provisioning operations from a resource provisioning management system. Each of these provisioning operations is linked to a specific job. A determination is then made as to which jobs are to be managed. The jobs are then grouped together and job dependencies are identified. The jobs are then scheduled for execution. At the appropriate time, the jobs are invoked. The jobs are audited as they are being performed.

Managing automated resource provisioning with a workload scheduler

A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments. A reservation class is provided that includes a start time, duration and the number of units required. A scheduled resource class is provided with an availability and an available method. The availability method creates a set of segments for a list of reservations and iterates each segment to determine whether there are enough resources for the required units. The availability method then combines all adjacent reservations and removes reservations that are too short for the duration. The available method provides a way for user to determine if resources are available at and for a given time. A composite resource class is also provided for more than one scheduled resource with an availability and available method.

Method and apparatus for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments

There is provided a method, a data processing system and a computer program product for maintaining service reliability in a data center. A probability of breach of a resource in the data center is determined. A breach of a resource may be the failure of the resource, the unavailability of a resource, the underperformance of a resource, or other problems with the resource. If the probability of breach exceeds a predetermined value, then additional resources are made available to the data center in order to prevent a breach of the resource from affecting the performance of the data center.

Maintaining service reliability in a data center using a service level objective provisioning mechanism

A method and system for grid computing. In an embodiment, a plurality of client machines are interconnected to at least one master machine. The master machine assigns a portion of a computing task to each one of the client machines. If any given client machine fails, or is delayed, in the performance its portion of the task, the master machine uses an estimate of that particular portion when presenting output for the task.

System and method for grid computing

A unified logging service is provided which may be employed across a variety of applications, allowing collected information to be stored, aggregated, and accumulated; presenting a more complete view, than previously available, related to those applications. The unified logging service provides a generalized centralized web services based service with the capability of accepting and collecting a variety of log formats containing a variety of logged events. These events may originate from clients using differing log formats or types in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Acknowledgement of receipt of log files may be provided to the originating clients. A log routing capability is also provided as well as a central repository for storing and forwarding log messages flowing throughout the system. These services may be accessed locally or remotely via published web services interfaces.

Unified logging service for distributed applications

A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a design pattern for automating service provisioning. Embodiments of the invention provide a catalog item management system that comprises a set of service and catalog item management functions that manage lifecycles of services and catalog items. Embodiments of the invention also provide an order fulfillment system that comprises a set of order, subscription, and service instance functions for managing orders, subscriptions, and service instances in order to provision and deprovision an application. In addition, embodiments of the invention provide a calendar reservation and scheduling system that presents a list of resource availabilities using an algorithm. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide a provisioning process that includes a process order method that initiates reservation of resources, provisioning, deprovisioning, and modification of services based on an order type.

Method and system and program product for a design pattern for automating service provisioning

A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for presenting navigable data center information in virtual reality using leading edge rendering engines. Virtual rooms may be constructed using the mechanism of the present invention to include data center devices for a specific purpose. The virtual rooms are presented in a virtual space to the administrators. In one embodiment, responsive to a change made by administrators in the virtual space, the mechanism of the present sends change messages to existing data center management system, which in turn makes the appropriate changes to the devices or its data center information.

Method and apparatus for presenting navigable data center information in virtual reality using leading edge rendering engines

A web service provisioning system including a subscription system having a web service description data correlated to the at least one web service, and provisioning processes data correlated to the at least one web service. The provisioning system also includes an invocation system operatively coupled to the subscription system. A method of provisioning at least one web service, the method including the steps of providing user profile data; providing web service description data correlated to the at least one web service; providing provisioning processes data correlated to the at least one web service; selecting at least one web service; and invoking the provisioning processes data correlated to the selected at least one web service.

Provisioning web services

A system and method for synchronizing a first data repository with a second data repository is disclosed. The method includes: a) detecting a change to data in the first data repository; b) communicating the change from the first data repository to the second data repository via the Internet using SOAP over HTTP; and c) updating data in the second data repository with the change. The system includes a first computing device which communicates with the first data repository and a second computing device which communicates with the second data repository. The first computing device detects a change to data in the first data repository and communicates the change to the second computing device via the Internet using SOAP over HTTP. The second computing device updates data in the second data repository with the change.

System and method for synchronizing data repositories

An extension to a programming language provides for the fair allocation of resources in the programming language environment. A resource pool data object stores available resource objects. A resource queue stores users waiting for resource object allocation. A method releases resources by placing the resources in the resource pool and by notifying users that a resource object has been released. An acquire resource method provides for users to be placed on the resource queue when there are no available resource objects. The acquire resource method waits on the availability of the resource object until the user comes to the head of the resource queue and a resource object is available, following which the resource object is returned to the user. Alternatively, a time out condition is reached once a predefined wait limit is met. The synchronization between methods and users waiting on resources is provided by the acquisition and release of a common lock.

Priority resource allocation in programming environments

A computer system providing a framework for mapping relational tables to object oriented classes. The framework includes an attribute class for defining data corresponding to columns in a relational table and including data objects used to map between the relational table and a programmer-defined object oriented class. The attribute class also including flags used to indicate modifications to the data. The framework further includes a generator class providing methods for generating SQL text corresponding to the relational table as defined in the attribute class objects for a given table.

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Michael George Polan