Placing objects on hosts using hard and soft constraints
US9075661B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 20, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jul 7, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 22, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/5055
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Objects are placed on hosts using hard constraints and soft constraints. The objects to be placed on the host may be many different types of objects. For example, the objects to place may include tenants in a database, virtual machines on a physical machine, databases on a virtual machine, tenants in directory forests, tenants in farms, and the like. When determining a host for an object, a pool of hosts is filtered through a series of hard constraints. The remaining pool of hosts is further filtered through soft constraints to help in selection of a host. A host is then chosen from the remaining hosts.
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