International Business Machines Corporation
Leveraging a shared storage pool to manage the health of virtual machines

Abstract:

A system for monitoring the health of virtual machines associated with a shared storage pool (SSP) includes a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), two or more virtual input/output servers (VIOSes) participating in the SSP, and an orchestration node. Each VIOS in the SSP is associated with a respective set of VMs of the plurality of VMs. Each VM is configured to transmit respective health data describing the VM to its associated VIOS. The orchestration node is in communication with each of the two or more VIOSes participating in the SSP, where each VIOS is configured to transmit to the orchestration node the respective health data of each VM in the respective set of VMs associated with the VIOS. The orchestration node is configured to monitor the health of a plurality of VMs associated with the two or more VIOSes participating in the SSP.