TENANT FAIRNESS IN A MULTI-TENANT NETWORK

Abstract: a method for allocating resources of a virtual controller is disclosed. the method comprises: allocating resources of a virtual controller to a first tenant, wherein the first tenant is allocated a first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources of the virtual controller and a second tenant is allocated a second tenant quantity of guaranteed resources of the virtual controller; determining that resources requested by the first tenant are greater than the first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources; determining that the virtual controller has unutilized resources sufficient to at least partially provide additional resources beyond the first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources to the first tenant; and temporarily provisioning the additional resources to the first tenant, wherein the additional resources are greater than the first tenant quantity of guaranteed resources.

Inventor(s): Xiaohu Wang, Ajeet Pal Singh Gill, Srilatha Tangirala, Nithin Bangalore Raju, Prabahar Radhakrishnan, Vivek Agarwal, Balaji Sundararajan

CPC Classification: G06F9/5005 (Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU])

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