Virtual machine provisioning based on tagged physical resources in a cloud computing environment
US9038083B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 9, 2012 |
| Grant date | May 19, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 11, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/5015
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A cloud system may create physical resource tags to store relationships between cloud computing offerings, such as computing service offerings, storage offerings, and network offerings, and the specific physical resources in the cloud computing environment. Cloud computing offerings may be presented to cloud customers, the offerings corresponding to various combinations of computing services, storage, networking, and other hardware or software resources. After a customer selects one or more cloud computing offerings, a cloud resource manager or other component within the cloud infrastructure may retrieve a set of tags and determine a set of physical hardware resources associated with the selected offerings. The physical hardware resources associated with the selected offerings may be subsequently used to provision and create the new virtual machine and its operating environment.
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