Pairwise comparison for load balancing

    公开(公告)号:US10382535B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-13

    申请号:US15286106

    申请日:2016-10-05

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Load balancing across hosts in a computer system is triggered based on pairwise comparisons of resource utilization at different host. A method for load balancing across hosts includes the steps of determining a resource utilization difference between first and second hosts, wherein the first host has a higher resource utilization than the second host, comparing the resource utilization difference against a threshold difference, and upon determining that the resource utilization difference exceeds the threshold difference, selecting a workload executing in the first host for migration to the second host.

    UNIFIED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR CONTAINERS AND VIRTUAL MACHINES

    公开(公告)号:US20220075643A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17527399

    申请日:2021-11-16

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Various aspects are disclosed for unified resource management of containers and virtual machines. A podVM resource configuration for a pod virtual machine (podVM) is determined using container configurations. The podVM comprising a virtual machine (VM) that provides resource isolation for a pod based on the podVM resource configuration. A host selection for the podVM is received from a VM scheduler. The host selection identifies hardware resources for the podVM. A container scheduler is limited to bind the podVM to a node corresponding to the hardware resources of the host selection from the VM scheduler. The podVM is created in a host corresponding to the host selection. Containers are started within the podVM. The containers correspond to the container configurations.

    Techniques for container scheduling in a virtual environment

    公开(公告)号:US11126461B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US16034126

    申请日:2018-07-12

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to virtualization, and more particularly to techniques for deploying containers in a virtual environment. The container scheduling can be based on information determined by a virtual machine scheduler. For example, a container scheduler can receive a request to deploy a container. The container scheduler can send container information to the virtual machine scheduler. The virtual machine scheduler can use the container information along with resource utilization of one or more virtual machines to determine an optimal virtual machine for the container. The virtual machine scheduler can send an identification of the optimal virtual machine back to the container scheduler so that the container scheduler can deploy the container on the optimal virtual machine.

    Quality of service scheduling with workload profiles

    公开(公告)号:US11074111B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16511872

    申请日:2019-07-15

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods for prioritizing workloads, such as virtual machines, to enforce quality of service (“QoS”) requirements. An administrator can assign profiles to workloads, the profiles representing different QoS categories. The profiles can extend scheduling primitives that can determine how a distributed resource scheduler (“DRS”) acts on workloads during various workflows. The scheduling primitives can be used to prioritize workload placement, determine whether to migrate a workload during load balancing, and determine an action to take during host maintenance. The DRS can also use the profile to determine which resources at the host to allocate to the workload, distributing higher portions to workloads with higher QoS profiles. Further, the DRS can factor in the profiles in determining total workload demand, leading to more efficient scaling of the cluster.

    PAIRWISE COMPARISON FOR LOAD BALANCING

    公开(公告)号:US20210211492A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-08

    申请号:US17208284

    申请日:2021-03-22

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Load balancing across hosts in a computer system is triggered based on pairwise comparisons of resource utilization at different host. A method for load balancing across hosts includes the steps of determining a resource utilization difference between first and second hosts, wherein the first host has a higher resource utilization than the second host, comparing the resource utilization difference against a threshold difference, and upon determining that the resource utilization difference exceeds the threshold difference, selecting a workload executing in the first host for migration to the second host.

    Anticipating future resource consumption based on user sessions

    公开(公告)号:US10768996B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US16168099

    申请日:2018-10-23

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches to anticipating future resource consumption based on user sessions. A message comprising a prediction of a future number of concurrent user sessions to be hosted by a virtual machine within a predefined future interval of time is received. It is then determined whether the future number of concurrent user sessions will cause the virtual machine to cross a predefined resource threshold during the predefined future interval of time. Then, a message is sent to a first hypervisor hosting the virtual machine to migrate the virtual machine to a second hypervisor.

    Graphical lock analysis
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10394682B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-27

    申请号:US14634415

    申请日:2015-02-27

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A system is described for identifying key lock contention issues in computing devices. A computing device is executed and lock contention information relating to operations during execution of the computing device is recorded. The data is parsed and analyzed to determine blocking relationships between operations due to lock contention. Algorithms are implemented to analyze dependencies between operations based on the data and to identify key areas of optimization for performance improvement. Algorithms can be based on the Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search algorithm or the PageRank algorithm.

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