摘要:
A fault tolerant recoverable connection device and methods are disclosed that include a primary router in an active state to provide a connection between clients and servers in a network, and a backup router in a standby state. The states of the primary and backup routers are switched when the primary router fails, the backup router has a better reach-ability state than the primary router, or by an operator command. Each router has a synchronization manager which maintains synchronized tables between the active and standby routers; a monitoring manager which monitors and switch the state of the routers; a reach-ability manager which monitors, updates, and compares the reach-ability set and state of the routers; and a keep alive manager which monitors the routers to provide a status notification to the monitoring manager.
摘要:
Apparatus and accompanying methods for use preferably in a multi-system shared data (sysplex) environment (100), wherein each system (110) provides one or more servers (115), for dynamically and adaptively assigning and balancing new work and for new session requests, among the servers in the sysplex, in view of attendant user-defined business importance of these requests and available sysplex resource capacity so as to meet overall business goals. Specifically, systems and servers are categorized into two classes: eligible, i.e., goal-oriented servers running under a policy and for which capacity information is currently available, and candidate, i.e., servers which lack capacity information. Work requests for a client application are assigned first to various eligible systems and eligible servers thereon based on their current capacity to accept new work and in a manner that meets business goals inherent in a sysplex policy; followed, if additional servers are requested by that application, to candidate systems and candidate servers thereon. As to session placement, first those system(s) are selected that have lowest utilization, at a target importance level, but with sufficient available capacity at that level. Competing servers on the selected system(s) are then evaluated based on their corresponding session count data to yield a single resulting server. Thereafter, identification of multiple servers and their corresponding weights are returned to, e.g., a client application, for eventual routing of work requests to those servers, or the identification of a single server is returned to that application for establishing a new session therewith.
摘要:
In a virtual machine environment, the invention enables creation of a long running, reusable, virtual machine are disclosed. The environment includes a shared heap where requisite runtime code to bring the virtual machine into a ‘ready’ mode are loaded, linked, verified, initialized and compiled. Subsequent virtual machines are started and jointly use the shared heap. Applications create their objects in ‘private heaps’ that are exclusively reserved for the respective applications. At the end of execution of an application, each private heap is reinitialized. Static initializers are run in a persistent area of each private heap. This persistent area is reset to its initial values in between execution of applications. This obviates the need to terminate the virtual machine.
摘要:
In a virtual machine environment, a method and apparatus for the use of multiple heaps to retain persistent data and transient data wherein the multiple heaps enables a single virtual machine to be easily resettable, thus avoiding the need to terminate and start a new Virtual Machine as well as enabling a single virtual machine to retain data and objects across multiple applications, thus avoiding the computing resource overhead of relinking, reloading, reverifying, and recompiling classes. The memory hierarchy includes a System Heap, a Middleware Heap and a Transient Heap. The use of three heaps enables garbage collection to be selectively targeted to one heap at a time in between applications, thus avoiding this overhead during the life of an application.
摘要:
A group of object servers configured for workload management is described wherein the group exports an object reference to clients that may want to call the group in order to perform some work. The object reference has a field which points to a workload management unit which performs workload management among the group at the Internet Protocol (IP) level.