JP2001265613A - Virtual computer system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dynamically reallocate all resources allocated to one virtual computer to the other virtual computer. SOLUTION: Of LPAR control parts 6 for controlling virtual computers LPAR which are respectively logically sectioned resources, the LPAR control part 6 of the LPAR shifting to an inactive state stops the OS of the corresponding LPAR and instructs the release of the resource of the corresponding LPAR and the reallocation of the resource to the other LPAR to a resource management part 8 for managing the resources. The LPAR control part 6 of the LPAR to which the resource is to be newly allocated stops the OS of the corresponding LPAR and reads new allocation contents from the resource management part 8. When a channel is additionally allocated, it is reconstituted. When the using rate of an instruction processor IP is added, the rescheduling of the IP is requested to a monitor 9. Or a new logic processor is generated and allocated to the corresponding LPAR. Then, the OS of the corresponding LPAR is activated together with the new allocation contents of a main storage MS.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a virtual computer system, and more particularly to a technique for dynamically reconfiguring the allocation of resources to virtual computers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a virtual computer system, MS
Resources such as (main storage), ES (extended storage), IP (instruction processor), and channel are logically partitioned and allocated to each virtual machine realized on the virtual machine system.
Such a function of logically partitioning each resource is called LPA.
This is called an R (Logically Partitioned) function.

[0003] Conventionally, MS / ES, channel, IP
It is known that, for individual resources such as, the allocation of resources is dynamically expanded and contracted for each virtual machine implemented on the virtual machine system.

[0004]

However, all of the resources allocated to one virtual machine cannot be allocated to another virtual machine at once without affecting other virtual machines. .

For example, when one virtual machine A enters a non-production state and it is desired to expand the physical resources of another virtual machine B, the resources (MS, ES, IP, channel) allocated to the virtual machine A Cannot be dynamically assigned to the virtual machine B at once without reinitializing the virtual machine B. For this reason, it has not been possible to reconfigure resources while maintaining the continuity of the business performed by the virtual machine B.

Therefore, the present invention provides a method for transferring all resources allocated to one virtual machine to another virtual machine without reinitializing the other virtual machine.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a virtual computer system that can be dynamically assigned.

[0007]

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a virtual computer system for realizing a plurality of virtual computers which performs processing using allocated physical resources, wherein the physical resources are mutually exclusive. Logical partitioning means for allocating the physical resources included in the logical partition to the virtual computer corresponding to the logical partition according to the logical partition divided in a time-divisional or time-division manner, and all logical resources included in the logical partition corresponding to the virtual computer to be eliminated. A reconfiguration means for dynamically allocating a physical resource to another specific virtual computer in place of the virtual machine to be eliminated.

[0008]

According to the virtual machine system of the present invention, each virtual machine performs processing by using the allocated physical resources. This physical resource allocation is performed by the logical partition means,
This is performed by allocating the physical resources included in the logical partition to the virtual machines corresponding to the logical partition according to the logical partition obtained by exclusively or time-divisionally dividing the physical resource.
For example, if the physical resource is an instruction processor, the utilization rate of each instruction processor included in the logical partition corresponds to the logical partition according to the logical partition obtained by dividing each of the plurality of instruction processors by the utilization rate. If the physical resource is the main storage and the physical resource is the main storage, the main storage area included in the logical partition is allocated to the virtual computer corresponding to the logical partition according to the logical partition obtained by dividing the main storage area.

Then, when a virtual computer to be eliminated because it is no longer needed occurs, the reconfiguration means replaces all the physical resources included in the logical partition corresponding to the virtual computer to be eliminated with another virtual computer instead of the virtual computer to be eliminated. Dynamically assigned to a particular virtual machine. For example, the utilization rate of the instruction processor included in the logical partition corresponding to the virtual machine to be eliminated is eliminated, and the eliminated utilization rate of the instruction processor is dynamically allocated to another virtual computer. Alternatively, the allocation of the area to the virtual machine to be canceled is canceled, and the other virtual machines are connected to the area already allocated to the virtual machine, and the area having the same capacity as the area in which the allocation is canceled, Assign dynamically.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the virtual machine system according to the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows a hardware resource configuration of the virtual machine system according to the present embodiment.

The virtual machine system according to this embodiment has four instruction processors (IP1) as hardware resources.
To IP4) 1, main storage / virtual storage (MS / ES) 2
And the channel path (CH) 3 and the device (DEVI
CE) 4.

Each of these resources is exclusively or time-divided into a plurality of logical partitions in the LPAR mode (logical partition mode). Each logical partition corresponds to one logical computer system (virtual computer). Therefore, each virtual machine is called an “LPAR”. In this embodiment, the four instruction processors 1 divide each LPAR in a time-division manner.
Other hardware is used for each LPAR
Used exclusively for

Next, a logical configuration of the virtual machine system according to the present embodiment will be described.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 5 denotes an SVP (Service Processor) having an LPAR frame for providing an operation interface for each LPAR,
6 is an LPA for controlling operation commands to each LPAR
This is an R control unit. Reference numeral 10 denotes a logical instruction processor (hereinafter, referred to as “LIP”) for executing a guest OS which is an LPAR operation system, and reference numeral 7 denotes L.
A LIP (Logical In) that controls the guest OS in accordance with an instruction from the PAR control unit 6 and performs a simulation process on an instruction requiring a simulation.
structure processor) control unit, 8
Is a resource management unit that manages all physical resource information of all LPARs, and 9 is a monitor that controls each of the control units 6 and 7 and the resource management unit 8. The LPAR control unit 6, LIP control unit 7, and resource management unit 8 are each configured as a task.

Hereinafter, the operation of the virtual machine system according to the present embodiment will be described with an example in which three LPARs are operated.

Now, for example, at the time of startup, the resources MS2,
It is assumed that IP1 is defined and assigned as follows for three LPARs.

That is, for MS2, the MS origin, the MS size, and the extension MS size are defined as shown in FIG. 3A, whereby the MS area is divided into three LPARs as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4C, the data is allocated from the MS origin to the size of the MS. As for IP1, IP1 is defined as shown in FIG.
2 is assigned to LPAR1 and LPAR2 by 50% by time sharing, IP3 is assigned to LPAR2 and LPAR3 by 50% by time sharing, and IP4 is set to 100% L
It is assumed that it is assigned to PAR3. In this case, for each LPAR, each assignment of each IP corresponds to one logical instruction processor LIP. For example, LPAR1 is a LIP equivalent to 100% of IP1 and a LIP equivalent to 50% of IP2.
With two LIPs.

Then, it is assumed that a request to terminate the use of LPAR2 while operating in such an allocation state, and to allocate all the resources allocated to LPAR2 to LPAR1 in addition. . Now
An LPAR that degenerates an LPAR that passes all resource assignments to another LPAR and an LPAR that receives resource assignments from the degenerate LPAR are referred to as an LPAR.

In such a case, the operator first
In the LPAR frame on SVP5, a command for integrating the resources of LPAR2 into LPAR1 and an INTEG command (hereinafter, an integrated command) are specified. This integration command includes, as operands, the number and name given to the degenerate LPAR and the number and name given to the LPAR to be integrated. When this operation is received, S
The control is transferred from the VP 5 to the LPAR control unit of the LPAR 2 which is the LPAR degenerate via the monitor 9.

The LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 2 to which control has been transferred first issues an instruction to the LIP control unit 7 as shown in FIG. Upon receiving this instruction, the LIP control unit 7
2 is set to the stop state (processing flow 20)
1). Next, the LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 2
All resources owned by R2 (MS / ES, channel, C
PU), all resources owned by LPAR2 are turned off by the resource management unit 8 which controls the resources.
An instruction is issued to set the NE state (processing flow 202).
Upon receiving the instruction, the resource management unit 8 performs the LPA according to the instruction.
A resource release process is performed to bring all resources owned by R2 into the OFFLINE state.

The LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 2 includes:
LPAR1 that integrates the released resources of LPAR2,
An instruction is given to the resource management unit 8 to allocate (processing flow 203). Upon receiving this instruction, the resource management unit 8 performs a resource reallocation process for changing the allocation according to the instruction. The contents of the allocation after the change are held in the resource management unit 8. At this time, as shown in (c) of FIG. 3, when the area of LPAR3 is continuously allocated to the area allocated to LPAR1 on the MS2, the resource management unit 8 assigns the MS of LPAR3 to the MS. Rearrange the area. For example, as shown in FIG.
Move the MS origin of R3 to address 256 or 384. Then, the area allocated to LPAR2 is continuously allocated to the area already allocated to LPAR1 (FIGS. 3B and 3D).

Also, the LIP of LPAR2 (of the LIP of LPAR2, the LIP realized on IP2 is LIP2
1. LIP implemented on IP3 is LIP22)
Among them, for LIP21, the utilization rate of IP2 given to LIP21 (in this case, 50%, see FIG. 4 (a))
Is added to the utilization rate of IP2 for LIP12 implemented on IP2 of LPAR1, and this value (100% in this case) is held in resource management unit 8.

Next, the utilization rate of IP3 of LIP22 is
New LIP13 of LPAR1 to give to PAR1
(The lowest defined logical IP that is not defined) and the utilization rate of IP3 for the generated LIP 13
The utilization rate (50%) assigned to the resource management unit 22 is set to this value (100% in this case) in the resource management unit 8.

As a result, after the above processing is completed, the resource management unit 8 has the state shown in FIG. 3B and FIG. 4B as internal information.

By the processing up to this point, the degenerated LPAR
Since the processing for (LPAR2) ends, LPA
The LPAR control unit 6 of R2 returns the control to the monitor 9. The monitor 9 whose control has been returned is the LP which is the LPAR to be integrated.
The control is transferred to the LPAR control unit 6 of the AR 1.

The LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 1 to which control has been transferred first issues an instruction to the LIP control unit 7 and
The control unit 7 causes the guest OS of the LPAR1 to be in the stop state (processing flow 204). Next, LPA of LPAR1
The R control unit 6 transmits a new MS / ES to this LPAR1.
Is read from the resource management unit 8 and the information is stored therein (processing flow 205).

Next, the LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 1
The identification of the channel assigned to LPAR2 and in the OFFLINE state is read from the resource management unit 8, and the resource management unit 8 is instructed to reconfigure all the LPAR1 to the ONLINE state (processing flow 206).
Upon receiving this instruction, the resource management unit 8 performs a channel reconfiguration process of allocating the instructed channel to the LPAR 1 and setting it to the ONLINE state.

Subsequently, the LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 1
Reads the LIP number and utilization rate of the LIP (LIP 13) newly assigned to the LPAR 1 from the resource management unit 8 from the resource management unit 8 and stores it internally as added LIP information. Also for the LIP whose usage rate has been changed, the changed usage rate is read from the resource management unit 8 and stored therein.

The LPAR controller 6 of the LPAR 1
Instructs the resource management unit 8 to notify the monitor of the change in the IP schedule. The monitor that has received the notification reads and recognizes the utilization rate of each LIP from the resource management unit 8. Then, the schedule of the LIP task, which is the task executed by the IP for the LIP implemented on the own IP, is defined by a TCB (Task Control Block).
By changing the usage rate of each LIP task registered in the LIP, the change is made to correspond to the usage rate of each LIP after the change. However, since the LIP task for the newly added LIP 13 has not been generated at this time, it is not targeted for scheduling.

Thereafter, the LPAR control unit 6 of the LPAR 1
Issues an instruction to the LIP control unit 7 to restart the LIP of the LPAR1. The LIP control unit 7 receiving the instruction updates the MS / ES size of the operand SD and updates the LPAR1.
Is sent to the LIP of LPAR1, and the guest OS of LPAR1 is started (processing flow 208).

Further, the result of the processing for the integrated command is reported for the frame on the SVP 5 (processing flow 2).
09). In the present embodiment, since the integrated command has been normally completed, a message indicating the normal completion or the content of the new assignment is reported.

With the above processing, the change of the resource allocation is completed. 3 (b) and 3 (d) and FIG. 4 (b) show the contents of the allocation of all LPARs after the change. As shown in the figure, the MS origin has been changed for LPAR3, but the guest OS of LPAR3 has not been affected at all. That is, from the viewpoint of the guest OS of LPAR3,
The environment remains exactly the same as before the change.

Of the resources newly allocated to the LPAR1, the guest OS has already
Since it is possible to directly recognize that it is NLINE, the guest OS can use this later.

For the extended MS portion, the operator gives a reconfiguration command to extend the MS to the guest OS, so that the guest OS can use the extended MS portion thereafter. Become. For this purpose, by specifying an expansion MS area when LPAR1 is started (see FIG. 3A), the guest OS can recognize that the MS can be expanded.

For the newly added IP (LIP), the operator gives the guest OS a reconfiguration command to add the LIP, so that the guest OS can use the newly added LIP 13. That is, the guest OS that has received the reconfiguration command sends a command for activating the newly added IP (LIP) to the corresponding LPAR control unit 6, and the LPAR control unit 6 generates a task for the newly added LIP. I do. The monitor 9 changes the task schedule of the IP on which the newly added LIP is realized, according to the utilization rate of the newly added LIP.

Also in this case, when the LPAR1 is started up, all IPs can be recognized by defining the assignment of IPs in the format shown in FIG. 4A so that the guest OS can recognize that an IP (LIP) can be added. ing.

As described above, all resources allocated to LPAR2 are activated as resources of LPAR1.

Note that, instead of the operator giving a reconfiguration command to the guest OS, the LPAR control unit 6
The guest OS is interrupted or interrupted to the newly allocated MS area or IP (LIP) via the control unit 7 or directly.
, The guest OS may spontaneously send a command to extend the MS or activate a newly added IP (LIP) to the corresponding LPAR control.

As described above, according to the virtual machine system of this embodiment, an unnecessary virtual machine can be dynamically integrated with another virtual machine by an integration command. For this reason, as in the conventional case, the virtual machine group to be integrated is stopped, resources are reallocated, and IPL is performed again.
There is no need to operate the virtual machine, and it is possible to continue business while the integrated virtual machine is operating. That is, reconfiguration can be performed without affecting the user, and efficiency can be improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, a case has been described where the present invention is applied to a virtual computer system having an LPAR function. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be widely applied to other virtual computer systems.

[0042]

As described above, according to the present invention, all resources allocated to one virtual machine are collectively re-initialized to another virtual machine. Instead, a virtual computer system that can be dynamically allocated can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a virtual machine system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a logical configuration of a virtual machine system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing MS assignment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing IP assignment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Instruction processor 2 Main storage / virtual storage 3 Channel path 4 Device 5 SVP 6 LPAR controller 7 LIP controller 8 Resource manager 9 Monitor 10 LIP

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[Submission date] March 22, 2001 (2001.3.2)
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[Claims] 1. A virtual machine system for realizing a plurality of virtual machines, which performs processing by using allocated physical resources, wherein the logical resources are divided in accordance with a logical partition in which physical resources are exclusively or time-divisionally divided. Logical partitioning means for allocating physical resources included in the partition to virtual machines corresponding to the logical partition;
Reconfiguring means for dynamically allocating all physical resources included in the logical partition corresponding to the virtual machine to be eliminated to another specific virtual machine in place of the virtual machine to be eliminated. system. 2. The virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein the virtual machine assigns an instruction processor to which the utilization rate is assigned according to the utilization rate of each of the assigned one or more instruction processors. Each of the instruction processors included in the logical partition is used in accordance with a logical partition obtained by dividing each of the plurality of instruction processors according to the respective utilization rates. Is allocated to the virtual machine corresponding to the logical partition, and the reconfiguration means cancels the usage rate of the instruction processor included in the logical partition corresponding to the virtual machine to be eliminated, and the utilization rate of the eliminated instruction processor. Is dynamically allocated to another specific virtual machine. 3. A plurality of virtual instructions which are assigned one or more virtual instruction processors which use a corresponding instruction processor at a time ratio corresponding to the assigned utilization rate, and perform processing using the assigned virtual instruction processors. A virtual computer system for realizing a computer, comprising: a plurality of instruction processors, each of which is divided according to a utilization rate, and corresponding to each instruction processor included in the logical partition, the utilization rate of the instruction processor; Generates a virtual instruction processor to which
A logical partitioning means for allocating the generated virtual instruction processor to the virtual machine corresponding to the logical partition, and a virtual instruction processor included in the logical partition corresponding to the virtual machine to be eliminated have been eliminated, and other specific virtual computers have been eliminated. When a virtual instruction processor and a virtual instruction processor generated on the same instruction processor are allocated, the utilization rate allocated to the resolved virtual instruction processor is dynamically allocated to the virtual instruction processor, and another virtual computer is allocated. In the case where the virtual instruction processor generated and the virtual instruction processor generated on the same instruction processor are not allocated to the virtual instruction processor, the utilization rate of the virtual instruction processor that has been allocated is allocated to the virtual instruction processor and the resolved instruction processor. Generates a new instruction processor and pre-creates the new instruction processor Reconfiguring means for allocating to a specific virtual computer.