公开(公告)号：US07146233B2

公开(公告)日：2006-12-05

申请号：US10301497

申请日：2002-11-20

Applicant: Ashar Aziz ,  Thomas Markson ,  Martin Patterson ,  Mark Gray ,  Osman Ismael

Inventor： Ashar Aziz ,  Thomas Markson ,  Martin Patterson ,  Mark Gray ,  Osman Ismael

IPC: G06F19/00 ,  G06F3/00

CPC classification number: G06F9/5027 ,  G06F9/45504 ,  G06F17/30902 ,  G06F2209/5021 ,  G06F2209/505

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.

Abstract translation: 公开了提供，控制和管理动态大小，高度可扩展和可用的服务器场的方法和装置。 虚拟服务器场（VSF）由大规模的计算架构（“计算网格”）创建，物理构建一次，然后根据需要逻辑分为各种组织的VSF。 每个组织都保留对VSF的独立管理控制。 VSF在计算网格内动态防火墙。 通过特殊控制端口连接到计算网格中的所有计算，网络和存储元件的控制平面来执行VSF中的元件的分配和控制。 每个VSF的内部拓扑在控制平面的控制下。 还提供了一种请求队列体系结构，用于处理允许所选择的请求被阻塞的工作请求，直到满足所需的人为干预。