US Patent Application 17725183. AUTOMATED DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES simplified abstract
AUTOMATED DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
JOSEPH B. Caisse of Burlington MA (US)
Bradley K. Goodman of Nashua NH (US)
HIMABINDU Tummala of South Grafton MA (US)
AUTOMATED DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17725183 Titled 'AUTOMATED DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES'
Simplified Explanation
This abstract describes methods and systems for managing the allocation of virtual machines. Virtual machines are used to host applications that provide computer services. These virtual machines are allocated hardware resources through a hypervisor. However, as the workload of the applications changes, the virtual machines may be either over or under provisioned, leading to inefficient use of hardware resources. To address this, the abstract proposes obtaining resource consumption estimates to determine how to provision the virtual machines more effectively, reducing or eliminating inefficient allocations of hardware resources.
Original Abstract Submitted
Methods and systems for managing provisioning of virtual machines. Virtual machines may host applications that may provide computer implemented services. Various hardware resources may be allocated to the virtual machines via a hypervisor. As the workloads of the applications change, the virtual machines may become over or under provisioned. To manage provisioning of virtual machines, various types of resource consumption estimates may be obtained. The resource consumption estimates may be used to ascertain how to provision various virtual machines to reduce or eliminate inefficient allocations of hardware resources for use by the virtual machines.
