US Patent Application 17725350. AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES simplified abstract
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AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES
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Inventor(s)
JOSEPH B. Caisse of Burlington MA (US)
Bradley K. Goodman of Nashua NH (US)
HIMABINDU Tummala of South Grafton MA (US)
AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17725350 Titled 'AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR HARD PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes methods and systems for managing the allocation of virtual machines, which are used to host computer applications. These virtual machines are allocated hardware resources through a hypervisor. However, as the workload of the applications changes, the virtual machines may end up with too many or too few resources. To address this, the abstract proposes obtaining resource consumption estimates to determine how to provision the virtual machines more efficiently. This would help reduce or eliminate inefficient allocation of hardware resources for the virtual machines.
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.
