Interactive Request Manager for Dynamic Computing Resource Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of provisioning, administering, and managing physical and virtual computing resources in data centers makes it challenging to efficiently allocate and manage computing resources across multiple geographical locations, limiting flexibility and scalability.
Innovation Solution
A program execution service that allows users to dynamically request and manage computing resources through an interactive request manager, which generates virtualization environments with customizable infrastructure services, enabling flexible allocation and management of resources across various geographic locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If virtualization technologies are used to allow a single physical computing machine to host multiple virtual machines, then resource utilization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
An interactive request manager is introduced as an intermediary component between users and the virtualization infrastructure. This request manager receives, processes, and manages requests for computing resources, virtual machine creation, modification, and deletion across multiple data centers. By centralizing request handling and adding this mediation layer, the system manages the increased complexity of multi-VM environments while maintaining high resource utilization through coordinated virtual machine lifecycle management.
2Reliability
If data centers are expanded to multiple geographical locations to improve service availability, then system reliability is improved, but management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interactive request manager is designed with universal functionality to manage computing resources across multiple geographical data centers through a single unified interface. It can create, modify, and delete virtual machines in any connected data center, handle resource allocation requests, and coordinate across distributed locations. This multi-functional design allows the system to maintain service availability across multiple locations while presenting a simplified, location-agnostic management interface to users.
3Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic resource allocation is implemented to meet varying user demands, then adaptability is improved, but control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic resource allocation where the interactive request manager continuously monitors computing resource demands and automatically adjusts virtual machine provisioning, scaling, and distribution across data centers. Users can specify resource requirements and the system dynamically creates or modifies virtual machines to meet these demands in real-time. This dynamic approach provides high adaptability to varying workloads while the automated request management processes handle the control complexity internally.
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AI summary
Embodiments of systems and methods are described for dynamically managing requests for computing capacity from a provider of computing resources. Illustratively, the computing resources may include program execution capabilities, data storage or management capabilities, network bandwidth, etc. The systems or methods automatically allocate computing resources for execution of one or more programs associated with the user. The systems and methods may enable the user to make changes to the allocated resources after execution of the one or more programs has started.