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Image deployment in a cloud environment

US9195488B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Dirk Bolte · Birkenfeld, DE
Herwig Elfering · Eppelheim, DE
Thomas Pohl · Holzgerlingen, DE
Martin Troester · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 26, 2012
Grant date	Nov 24, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 12, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/45562
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a mechanism for image deployment in a cloud environment comprising at least two hosts coupled to at least one disk, and at least one virtual machine created in at least one host of the at least two hosts by deploying an additional image to the at least one disk. The method is characterized in that the at least one host for deploying an additional image is selected according to a deployment factor representing a communality relationship between one or more existing base images in the cloud environment and the additional image.

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