Patent · US Active

Optimizing virtual machines placement in cloud computing environments

US9495215B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Amadeus Podvratnik · Eppelheim, DE
Thomas Spatzier · Holzgerlingen, DE
Torsten Teich · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 9, 2012
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 15, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/5019
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Placement of instances of virtual machine (VM) images in a cloud computing environment is optimized. A request is received to deploy a new VM image instance. User-specific and generic VM resource usage profiles are read that include resource consumption data. Resource pool profiles for multiple resource pools are read that include resource consumption data for the resource pools. For each of the resource pool profiles, a selected VM resource usage profile is analyzed and aligned with the resource pool profiles. An aggregated resource consumption profile is calculated. A determination is made of one of multiple resource pools with the least aggregated resource consumption.

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