WO2016003127A1

WO2016003127A1 - Management system for server/storage

Info

Publication number: WO2016003127A1
Application number: PCT/KR2015/006612
Authority: WO
Inventors: 김영환; 전기만; 안재훈
Original assignee: 전자부품연구원
Priority date: 2014-06-30
Filing date: 2015-06-29
Publication date: 2016-01-07
Also published as: KR20160003358A; KR101596325B1

Abstract

Provided is a management system. A management system comprises: a plurality of virtual machines for managing a plurality of devices; and a virtual machine management unit for monitoring the plurality of virtual machines. Thousands of devices to be managed can be efficiently managed by means of a plurality of virtual machines. In addition, a management system has a plurality of virtual machines duplexed, and load can be distributed by means of a spare virtual machine and thus enables higher credibility and stability.

Description

Server / Storage Management System

The present invention relates to a server / storage management system, and more particularly, to a system for managing servers / storages using a virtual machine.

Servers, communications equipment, and storage, storage devices, are the core infrastructures that store and distribute big data and require large amounts of power. In particular, as the cloud era and the big data era arrive, efficient management is required.

As such, in order to provide cloud services or big data services, thousands of servers / storages need to be integrated. In order to manage such a large number of servers / storage in a single control system, an intuitive control system for efficiently managing all servers / storage is required. In addition, in order to build intelligently and adaptively, various information collection systems are required. There is also a need for an integrated remote management system for server / storage systems.

As such, in order to collectively monitor and manage many server / storage devices through a single management system, a search for a method for increasing the efficiency of server management is required.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention, to provide a management system including a plurality of virtual machines for managing a plurality of devices and a virtual machine management unit for monitoring a plurality of virtual machines. have.

Management system according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a plurality of virtual machines for managing a plurality of devices; It includes; and a virtual machine management unit for monitoring the plurality of virtual machines.

The virtual machine manager may transmit the monitoring information to an external control center.

The plurality of virtual machines may include: an active virtual machine that directly manages a plurality of devices; A passive virtual machine managing the plurality of devices in place of the active virtual machine when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine; And a spare virtual machine managing the plurality of devices by assisting the active virtual machine when the active virtual machine or the passive virtual machine is loaded with a specific amount or more.

The virtual machine manager may further include a workload profiler that collects resource usage information of the plurality of virtual machines.

The resource usage information may include virtual machine ID, virtual machine mode information, information collection time, target resource type information to be collected, and resource utilization information.

The virtual machine manager may include a virtual machine controller configured to monitor states of the plurality of virtual machines and to control the passive virtual machine to operate in an active mode when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine.

The virtual machine controller may adjust resource utilization rates of the active virtual machine and the passive virtual machine using the resource usage information collected by the workload profiler.

The virtual machine controller may control to allocate resources to the spare virtual machine when resource utilization rates of the active virtual machine and the passive virtual machine exceed a specific value.

The virtual machine manager may include an event profiler that collects event information related to management of the plurality of devices by the plurality of virtual machines and transmits the collected event information to an external control center.

In addition, the event information may include a virtual machine ID, virtual machine mode information, event occurrence time information, event type information and event occurrence log message.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a management system including a plurality of virtual machines for managing a plurality of devices and a virtual machine management unit for monitoring a plurality of virtual machines, such that the management system includes a plurality of virtual machines. Can be used to efficiently manage thousands of managed devices. In addition, the management system can have a higher reliability and stability because a plurality of virtual machines are redundant and the load can be distributed through the spare virtual machine.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a server / storage management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating an event information collection protocol of an event profiler according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a table for describing event information of an event profiler according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a table for explaining an event type according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 illustrates a resource usage information collection protocol of a workload profiler according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a table for explaining resource usage information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a diagram illustrating a virtual machine management / control command protocol according to one embodiment of the present invention;

8 illustrates another form of virtual machine management / control command protocol according to an embodiment of the present invention;

9 is a diagram illustrating a virtual machine state monitoring protocol according to one embodiment of the present invention;

10 is a table for explaining a virtual machine management / control command protocol and monitoring protocol, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described the present invention in more detail.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a server / storage management system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the management system 100 manages a plurality of managed devices 10 and transmits information collected in a management process to the control center 20. Here, the device to be managed 10 includes a server, a network device, a storage device, and the like.

The management system 100 implements and manages a device for managing the plurality of managed devices 10 in the form of a plurality of virtual machines. And, the management system 100 includes a virtual machine management unit 140 for monitoring a plurality of virtual machines for equipment management as described above. That is, the management system 100 is a virtualized server environment in which the environment for managing the plurality of managed devices 10 is built, so that thousands of tens of thousands of managed devices 10 can be stably and effectively managed. You can build an environment with server capacity or resources. In addition, the management system 100 may duplicate the virtualized servers with each other and may also have a spare virtual machine, so that even if a specific server fails, the management of the device does not cause a problem. Will be able to.

The management system 100 includes a plurality of

virtual machines

110, 120, and 130 for managing a plurality of devices, a virtual machine manager 140 for monitoring a plurality of virtual machines, a hypervisor 150 as a base of a virtual machine, And underlying hardware 160.

The management system 100 may include a plurality of virtual machines, each of which is an active virtual machine 110, a passive virtual machine 120, and a spare virtual machine 130. ) Will operate in one of the modes.

The active virtual machine 110 directly and directly manages the plurality of managed devices 10. That is, the active virtual machine 110 also monitors and directly controls the state of the managed devices 10 or events that occur. Specifically, the active virtual machine 110 includes a Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM) 111, providers 113 and 115, and a daemon 117.

The CIMOM 111 collects, manages, and controls status information of a storage or server, which is a managed device 10, based on a CIM (Common Information Model) standard.

The providers 113 and 115 perform an actual processing operation in response to the information collection and management / control request requested by the CIMOM 111. In some cases, the providers 113 and 115 may be included in the CIMOM 111.

The daemon 117 performs a corresponding function in response to a request for management, control, and monitoring of the event profiler 141, the virtual machine controller 143, and the workload profiler 145. The daemon 117 basically performs related functions in a state running in the background in the active virtual machine 110.

The passive virtual machine 120 serves to assist the active virtual machine 110. Specifically, the passive virtual machine 120 may be mirrored to perform the same function as the active virtual machine 110, or may be clustered to back up the active virtual machine 110. . In addition, the passive virtual machine 120 may share a resource with the active virtual machine 110 and perform a function of sharing the workload of the active virtual machine 110.

The passive virtual machine 120 manages a plurality of managed devices 10 in place of the active virtual machine 110 when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine 110. That is, when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine 110, the passive virtual machine 120 is to be switched to the active mode.

As shown in FIG. 1, the passive virtual machine 120 has the same configuration as the active virtual machine 110, and specifically, the CIMOM (Common Information Model Object Manager) 121, the providers 123 and 125, and Contains a daemon 127.

The spare virtual machine 130 assists the active virtual machine 110 and the passive virtual machine 120. Specifically, when a certain amount or more of load is applied to the active virtual machine 110 or the passive virtual machine 120, the spare virtual machine 130 assists the active virtual machine to manage the plurality of managed devices 10. do.

In addition, when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine 110 and the passive virtual machine 120 is switched to the active mode, the spare virtual machine 130 is switched to the passive mode to perform a function as a passive virtual machine.

As shown in FIG. 1, the spare virtual machine 130 has the same configuration as the active virtual machine 110, and specifically, the CIMOM (Common Information Model Object Manager) 131, the providers 133 and 135, And daemon 137.

The virtual machine manager 140 monitors the plurality of

virtual machines

110, 120, and 130. In addition, the virtual machine manager 140 transmits the monitoring information to the external control center 20. Then, the control center 20 can grasp the management characteristics and patterns of the management target equipment 10 based on the collected information.

As shown in FIG. 1, the virtual machine manager 140 includes an event profiler 141, a virtual machine controller 143, a workload profiler 145, and a database 147.

The event profiler 141 collects event information related to management of the plurality of managed devices 10 by the plurality of virtual machines, and transmits the collected event information to the external control center 20. That is, the event profiler 141 performs a function of collecting information on the management state or related events of the managed device 10. Through this, the control center 20 can grasp the management characteristics and patterns for the management target equipment 10 by using the collected event information.

At this time, the event information collected by the event profiler 141 includes a virtual machine ID (VM ID), virtual machine mode information (VM Mode), event occurrence time information (Event Time), event type information (Event Type) and events Contains an event log message.

Specifically, the types of event information are shown in FIGS. 2 to 4. 2 is a diagram illustrating an event profile collection protocol of an event profiler according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a table for describing event information of an event profiler according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a table for explaining an event type according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The work load profiler 145 collects resource usage information of the plurality of

virtual machines

110, 120, and 130. As such, the workload profiler 145 collects resource usage information, so that the virtual machine manager 140 may analyze information for predicting and preventing down situations of the virtual machines, and the active virtual machine 110 and the passive. It is possible to appropriately allocate resources between the virtual machine (120). In addition, the virtual machine manager 140 may analyze the system load and the workload of the virtual machines to induce efficient distribution of resources among the virtual machines.

Here, the resource usage information may include a virtual machine ID (VM ID), virtual machine mode information (VM Mode), information collection time (Monitoring Time), target resource type information (Resource Type) to collect, and resource utilization information (Resource) Usage).

Specifically, the types of resource usage information are shown in FIGS. 5 to 6. 5 is a diagram illustrating a resource usage information collection protocol of the workload profiler 145 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a diagram for describing resource usage information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Table.

The virtual machine controller 143 monitors and controls the states of the plurality of

virtual machines

110, 120, and 130. Specifically, the virtual machine controller 143 exchanges messages with a Heartbeat module existing in the

daemons

117, 127, and 137 in the virtual machine at regular time intervals and checks the state of the virtual machines.

The virtual machine controller 143 controls the passive virtual machine 120 to operate in an active mode when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine 110.

In addition, when a failure occurs in the passive virtual machine 120, the virtual machine controller 143 controls the spare virtual machine 130 to operate in the passive mode.

The virtual machine controller 143 controls another virtual machine to operate in the spare mode when a failure occurs in the spare virtual machine 130.

In this way, the virtual machine control unit 143 has a virtual machine that can back up even if any virtual machine failure occurs, it is possible to duplicate the management system 100. Accordingly, the management system 100 can stably manage the management target equipment 10 without system down time.

In addition, the virtual machine controller 143 adjusts resource utilization rates of the active virtual machine 110 and the passive virtual machine 120 using the resource usage information collected by the workload profiler 145.

The virtual machine controller 143 controls the resource allocation to the spare virtual machine 130 when the resource utilization rate of the active virtual machine 110 and the passive virtual machine 120 exceeds a specific value. 130 may be controlled to operate in a passive mode.

At this time, the description of the virtual machine management / control command protocol, the virtual machine status monitoring protocol used is shown in Figures 7 to 10. FIG. 7 illustrates a virtual machine management / control command protocol according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 illustrates another type of virtual machine management / control command protocol according to an embodiment of the present invention. 9 is a diagram illustrating a virtual machine state monitoring protocol according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a virtual machine management / control command protocol and a monitoring protocol according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a table | surface for doing it.

As such, the virtual machine control unit 143 may predict the overload situation of the virtual machine in advance and appropriately adjust the resource allocation state among the virtual machines.

The database 147 stores data about information collected by the event profiler 141, the virtual machine controller 143, and the workload profiler 145.

The virtual machine management unit 140 having such a structure may monitor and transmit the plurality of

virtual machines

110, 120, and 130 to the control center 20, and the control center 20 may be managed based on the collected information. Can understand their management characteristics and patterns. In addition, the virtual machine manager 140 is able to duplicate the virtual machines for equipment management, it is possible to perform a stable management.

The hypervisor 150 provides a virtualization platform for running a virtual machine under the hardware 160. In detail, the hypervisor 150 controls virtual machines driven by a plurality of operating systems, provides an associated interface, and processes resources such as memory allocated to each virtual machine.

Hardware 160 represents a computer device that includes one or more servers or storage and represents the basic hardware that makes up the management system 100.

The management system 100 having the above-described configuration is constructed in a virtualized server environment for managing the plurality of managed devices 10, thereby stably and effectively managing thousands to tens of thousands of managed devices 10. You can build an environment with manageable server capacity or resources. In addition, the management system 100 may duplicate the virtualized servers with each other and may also have a spare virtual machine, so that even if a specific server fails, the management of the device does not cause a problem. Will be able to.

On the other hand, the technical idea of the present invention can be applied to a computer-readable recording medium containing a computer program for performing the function of the management system 100 according to the present embodiment. In addition, the technical idea according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in the form of computer readable programming language code recorded on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium can be any data storage device that can be read by a computer and can store data. For example, the computer-readable recording medium may be a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical disk, a hard disk drive, a flash memory, a solid state disk (SSD), and the like. In addition, the computer-readable code or program stored in the computer-readable recording medium may be transmitted through a network connected between the computers.

In addition, although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been shown and described above, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, but the technical field to which the invention belongs without departing from the spirit of the invention claimed in the claims. Of course, various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and these modifications should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or the prospect of the present invention.

Claims

A plurality of virtual machines managing a plurality of devices; And

And a virtual machine manager for monitoring the plurality of virtual machines.
The method of claim 1,

The virtual machine management unit,

Management system, characterized in that for transmitting the monitoring information to an external control center.
The method of claim 1,

The plurality of virtual machines,

An active virtual machine that directly manages a plurality of devices;

A passive virtual machine managing the plurality of devices in place of the active virtual machine when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine; And

And a spare virtual machine configured to manage the plurality of devices by assisting the active virtual machine when the active virtual machine or the passive virtual machine is loaded with a specific amount or more.
The method of claim 3,

The virtual machine management unit,

The workload profiler for collecting resource usage information of the plurality of virtual machines.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The resource usage information,

And a virtual machine ID, virtual machine mode information, information collection time, target resource type information to be collected, and resource utilization information.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The virtual machine management unit,

And a virtual machine controller for monitoring the states of the plurality of virtual machines and controlling the passive virtual machine to operate in an active mode when a failure occurs in the active virtual machine.
The method of claim 6,

The virtual machine control unit,

And managing resource utilization rates of the active virtual machine and the passive virtual machine by using the resource usage information collected by the workload profiler.
The method of claim 7, wherein

The virtual machine control unit,

And controlling resource allocation to the spare virtual machine when resource utilization rates of the active virtual machine and the passive virtual machine exceed a specific value.
The method of claim 1,

The virtual machine management unit,

And an event profiler for collecting event information related to management of the plurality of devices by the plurality of virtual machines and transmitting the collected event information to an external control center.
Managing a plurality of devices; And

Monitoring the plurality of virtual machines.