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Optimizing virtual machines placement in cloud computing environments

US10719343B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Amadeus Podvratnik · Eppelheim, DE
Thomas Spatzier · Holzgerlingen, DE
Torsten Teich · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 14, 2016
Grant date	Jul 21, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 4, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/5019
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Placement of instances of virtual machine (VM) images in a cloud computing environment is optimized. A request is received to deploy a new VM image instance. VM resource usage profiles are read that indicate predicted resource consumption data of the VM image. Resource pool profiles for multiple resource pools are read that indicate predicted resource consumption data for the resource pools. For each of the resource pools, the VM resource usage profile is aligned with the respective resource pool profile. An aggregated resource consumption profile is calculated as an aggregation of the predicted resource consumptions of the aligned profiles. A determination is made of one of multiple resource pools with the least predicted aggregated resource consumption, and the VM image is instantiated on the determined one of the multiple resource pools with the least predicted aggregated resource consumption over time.

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