Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Gregory D Jordan

Daniel Edward Herington

Thomas Edwin Turicchi, Jr

Isom Lawrence Crawford, Jr

William H Blanding

Francisco J Romero

Troy Don Miller

A computer system includes computing resources and workload containers to which the resources can be allocated. A workload manager plans 1) a reallocation of the computing resources among said containers, and 2) a transfer sequence for units of the computing resources to implement said reallocation. The transfer sequence is selected as a function of a ranking of resource allocations and/or delay-related costs in implementing the reallocation.

Workload management with resource transfer sequence planned as a function of ranking of resource allocations

In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of computing containers having processing resources for executing software workloads, a plurality of management processes for controlling access to the processing resources according to workload policy definitions, a data container for storing a plurality of workload policy definitions and associations between the plurality of workload policy definitions and the plurality of computing containers, and a configuration process for communicating workload policy definitions from the data container to the plurality of management processes.

System and method for associating workload management definitions with computing containers

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Gregory D Jordan