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Suspending and resuming virtual machines in a network

US10263870B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Jakob C. Lang · Altdorf, DE
Angel Nunez-Mencias · Eppelheim, DE
Thomas Pohl · Holzgerlingen, DE
Martin Troester · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 7, 2016
Grant date	Apr 16, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 2, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L61/5076
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method is provided for suspending and resuming virtual machines in a network in dependence of network activity. The method includes providing a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager monitors network traffic of the virtual machines on a network bridge in a network layer using data packet analysis to detect dedicated network protocol traffic. More particularly, the monitoring of network traffic of the virtual machines may include: logging network addresses of the virtual machines of the network; combining logged network addresses with information about suspending or resuming virtual machines based on filtering rules being provided for such combination; and sending information about the network addresses of active and suspended virtual machines for virtual network adapters assigned to the virtual machines to the virtual machine manager.

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