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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2002
Ashar Aziz, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Markson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Martin Patterson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Gray, Mountain View, CA (US);
Osman Ismael, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ashar Aziz, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Markson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Martin Patterson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Gray, Mountain View, CA (US);
Osman Ismael, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus providing, controlling and managing a dynamically sized, highly scalable and available server farm are disclosed. A Virtual Server Farm (VSF) is created out of a wide scale computing fabric ('Computing Grid') which is physically constructed once and then logically divided up into VSFs for various organizations on demand. Each organization retains independent administrative control of a VSF. A VSF is dynamically firewalled within the Computing Grid. Allocation and control of the elements in the VSF is performed by a control plane connected to all computing, networking, and storage elements in the computing grid through special control ports. The internal topology of each VSF is under control of the control plane. A request queue architecture is also provided for processing work requests that allows selected requests to be blocked until required human intervention is satisfied.