WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:CA2382017A1

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-05

    申请号:CA2382017

    申请日:2000-09-28

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: The allocation of shareable resources of a computing environment is dynamically adjusted to balance the workload of that environment. Workload i s managed across two or more partitions of a plurality of partitions of the computing environment, which are preferably configured as groups of partitions. At least one group of the computing environment includes a plurality of partitions of the computing environment. Shareable resources ar e assigned to the partitions of the group and are managed as a group. The managing includes dynamically adjusting allocation of a shareable resource o f at least one partition of the two or more partitions in order to balance workload goals of the two or more partitions. One example of this is managin g central processing unit (CPU) resources within a computing environment. When the allocation of CPU resources to a partition of the computing environment is to be adjusted, the allocation is adjusted dynamically. The adjusting includ es modifying processor weights associated with the partitions.

    Resource balancing in a partitioned processing environment

    公开(公告)号:AU2002228206A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-09-24

    申请号:AU2002228206

    申请日:2002-02-01

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A partitioned processing system capable of supporting diverse operating system partitions is disclosed wherein throughput information is passed from a partition to a partition resource manager. The throughput information is used to create resource balancing directives for the partitioned resource. The processing system includes at least a first partition and a second partition. A partition resource manager is provided for receiving information about throughput from the second partition and determining resource balancing directives. A communicator communicates the resource balancing directives from the partition manager to a kernel in the second partition which allocates resources to the second partition according to the resource balancing directives received from the partition manager.

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