Automated scheduling of virtual machines across hosting servers
US8095662B1 · kind B1 · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 4, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jan 10, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 8, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/04
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method and system for automatedly scheduling virtual machines across several hosting servers of a hosting service provider. Some embodiments perform the automated scheduling by receiving a server configuration that includes constraint data. In some embodiments, the constraint data includes a specified amount of hosting resources needed to implement the server configuration. Based on the constraint data, a scheduling module in the hosting environment determines an optimal distribution of the server configuration across a set of hosting resources that implement the server configuration based on the constraint data. To determine the optimal distribution, some embodiments compute a set of scores for quantifying the specified set of hosting resources required for hosting the server configuration. From the optimal distribution, some embodiments perform a mapping of the server configuration to a particular set of hosting resources of several hosting resources using the computed set of scores.
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