Rolling upgrades in disaggregated systems

    公开(公告)号:US10970061B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US16660676

    申请日:2019-10-22

    IPC分类号: G06F8/65

    摘要: Embodiments for performing rolling software upgrades in a disaggregated computing environment. A rolling upgrade manager is provided for upgrading one or more disaggregated servers. A designated memory area is used for storing an updated software component, and a disaggregated server is switched to the designated memory area from a currently assigned memory area when performing the software upgrade. A process state and program data is maintained in the currently assigned memory area while maintaining the updated software component in the designated memory area such that the process state and program data are read from the currently assigned memory area and the updated software component is read from the designated memory area during currently executing operations of the disaggregated server.

    Managing software licenses in a disaggregated environment

    公开(公告)号:US10701141B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-30

    申请号:US15199543

    申请日:2016-06-30

    摘要: Server resources in a data center are disaggregated into shared server resource pools. Servers are constructed dynamically, on-demand and based on a tenant's workload requirements, by allocating from these resource pools. The system also includes a license manager that operates to manage a pool of licenses that are available to be associated with resources drawn from the server resource pools. Upon provisioning of a server entity composed of resources drawn from the server resource pools, the license manager determines a license configuration suitable for the server entity. In response to receipt of information indicating a change in a composition of the server entity (e.g., as a workload is processed), the license manager determines whether an adjustment to the license configuration is required. If so, an adjusted license configuration for the server entity is determined and tracked to the tenant. The data center thus allocates appropriate licenses to server entities as required.

    Utilizing accelerators to accelerate data analytic workloads in disaggregated systems

    公开(公告)号:US11275622B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-15

    申请号:US16204653

    申请日:2018-11-29

    摘要: Server resources in a data center are disaggregated into shared server resource pools, including an accelerator (e.g., FPGA) pool. Servers are constructed dynamically, on-demand and based on workload requirements, by allocating from these resource pools. According to this disclosure, accelerator utilization in the data center is managed proactively by assigning accelerators to workloads in a fine granularity and agile way, and de-provisioning them when no longer needed. In this manner, the approach is especially advantageous to automatically provision accelerators for data analytic workloads. The approach thus provides for a “micro-service” enabling data analytic workloads to automatically and transparently use FPGA resources without providing (e.g., to the data center customer) the underlying provisioning details. Preferably, the approach dynamically determines the number and the type of FPGAs to use, and then during runtime auto-scales the FPGAs based on workload.