公开(公告)号：US10552228B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US15187772

申请日：2016-06-20

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Vadim Spivak ,  Amar Padmanabhan ,  Anfernee Yongkun Gui ,  Badhri Sampathkumar ,  Luca Castellano ,  Maithem Munshed ,  Michi Mutsuzaki ,  Vui Chiap Lam

IPC: G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/48

Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein provide an approach for assigning resource consumers to available resources. In one embodiment, components of a distributed scheduler are organized into a hierarchy, such as a tree. A placement request received at a root scheduler of the hierarchy is propagated down the hierarchy, either to all children or to randomly selected subsets of children of each scheduler in the hierarchy. Leaf schedulers in the hierarchy that receive the request each propagate back up a score indicating the amount of free resources in its corresponding resource bucket. Branch schedulers then compare scores that they receive, and each further propagate one of the received scores, such as the highest score, based on the comparison, until the root scheduler is reached. The root scheduler makes an additional comparison and returns one of the resource buckets in response to the received placement request.

公开(公告)号：US20180091590A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15277902

申请日：2016-09-27

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Mihnea Olteanu ,  Bharath Siravara ,  Marius Popa ,  Xin Yao ,  Vui Chiap Lam

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L41/044 ,  G06F9/5077 ,  H04L41/042 ,  H04L67/38

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that efficiently distribute virtual-machine images (“VM images”) among servers within large, distributed-computer-system-implemented IAAS platforms to facilitate temporally and computationally efficient instantiation of virtual machines within the servers. In implementations discussed below, VM images are stored in a distributed fashion throughout one or more distributed computing systems, using several different VM-image-distribution models, in order to balance computational-resource usage, temporal constraints, and other factors and considerations related to VM-image distribution and VM instantiation.

公开(公告)号：US11057263B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-06

申请号：US15277902

申请日：2016-09-27

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Mihnea Olteanu ,  Bharath Siravara ,  Marius Popa ,  Xin Yao ,  Vui Chiap Lam

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that efficiently distribute virtual-machine images (“VM images”) among servers within large, distributed-computer-system-implemented IAAS platforms to facilitate temporally and computationally efficient instantiation of virtual machines within the servers. In implementations discussed below, VM images are stored in a distributed fashion throughout one or more distributed computing systems, using several different VM-image-distribution models, in order to balance computational-resource usage, temporal constraints, and other factors and considerations related to VM-image distribution and VM instantiation.