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Managing a virtual machine instance

US9483316B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Yang Che · Beijing, CN
Xue Xiang Cui · Beijing, CN
Zhao Liu · Beijing, CN
Tan Jiang · Beijing, CN
Liang Wang · San Jose, US
Xi Ning Wang · Beijing, CN
Yong Yao · Nanjing, CN
Xuan Zhang · Monroeville, US
Yu ZHANG · Beijing, CN

Key dates

Filing date	May 28, 2015
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 28, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/4557
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to mechanisms for managing VM instances. More specifically, the mechanisms provide at least one VM instance in a resource pool. A configuration requirement is provided with respect to a virtual machine, the configuration requirement describing a first amount of application resources to be installed on the virtual machine. Based on the configuration requirement, a resource tree is built describing a dependency relation between the first amount of application resources. At least one VM instance corresponding to a sub-path of the resource tree is provided in the resource pool, where on each VM instance in the at least one VM instance there are installed application resources included in the sub-path.

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