Rapidly determining fragmentation in computing environments
US8548790B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 7, 2011 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 28, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/865
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for determining fragmentation in a computing environment. A simulation of virtual machine requests for resources in the computing environment is run for a predetermined time. The simulation is scaled down when the predetermined time exceeds a threshold. The scaling down includes scaling down the resources in the computing environment and/or scaling down a number of the virtual machine requests. The scaled down simulation is run iteratively to estimate relative fragmentation of the virtual machine requests against the resources in the computing environment.
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