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Capability-based abstraction of software-defined infrastructure

US9851933B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Brad L. Brech · Rochester, US
Scott W. Crowder · Pleasantville, US
Hubertus Franke · Somers, US
Jeffrey A. Frey · Fishkill, US
Nagui Halim · Yorktown Heights, US
Matt R. Hogstrom · Raleigh, US
Yu-Cheng Hsu · Sanxing, TW
Dilip Dinkar Kandlur · Yorktown Heights, US
Chung-Sheng Li · Scarsdale, US
David B. Lindquist · Chapel Hill, US
Stefan Pappe · Heidelberg, DE
Pratap C. Pattnaik · Ossining, US
Balachandar Rajaraman · Cary, US
Radha P. Ratnaparkhi · Ridgefield, US
Renato J. Recio · Austin, US
Rodney A. Smith · Raleigh, US
Michael D. Williams · Gardiner, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 25, 2015
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 26, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L41/5096
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There is a method and system for capability-based resource allocation in a software-defined environment that performs the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) determining a set of capability characteristics for a plurality of workload resources within a software-defined environment; (ii) determining a set of workload components for a specified workload; and (iii) identifying a set of workload resources from the plurality of workload resources to allocate to the specified workload based, at least in part, on the set of capability characteristics corresponding to each workload within the set of workload resources. A workload component of the set of workload components has a unique set of workload characteristics.

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