Dynamically provisioning virtual machines from remote, multi-tier pool
US10896069B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 16, 2018 |
| Grant date | Jan 19, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 2, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A technique for dynamically provisioning virtual machines for running a cloud-based software application includes querying a pool manager of a multi-tiered pool of virtual machines to identify a set of classes of virtual machines, which meet a specified size criterion, and a respective TVC (time-variant characteristic) for each class. If an identified one of the set of classes has a smaller TVC than a TVC of one of the virtual machines currently running the application, the technique proceeds to swap the current virtual machine for a virtual machine having the identified class.
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