Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc.

Douglas Reed Wightman

Joshua Butikofer

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for constraining auto live migration of virtual machines using group tags, access control lists, and time constraints. A system assigns a hypervisor a group tag denoting membership in a group and assigns a virtual machine an affinity group tag that denotes a placement requirement on hypervisors. The affinity group tag can be positive, requiring a match, or negative, requiring a non-match. The system migrates the virtual machine to the hypervisor according to compatibility between the group tag and the affinity group tag. Limitations of virtual machine placement and live migration due to group tags can be overridden in the system by a forced migration triggered by a human or qualifying event. Additionally, an access control list can be added to group membership of hypervisors and a time dimension can be added to a group tag or an access control list.

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Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Douglas Reed Wightman