International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Kellie Francis

James Lee Wooldridge

James J Bozek

Edward Stanley Suffern

Power management for a virtual machine farm in which each hypervisor respectively serving each virtual machine platform in the farm is provided with an extended hypervisor function coacts with functions provided by the connection broker and the manual configuration interface of the virtual machine farm management server for managing each respective virtual machine platform to maximize the time that each platform is in the reduced power state.

Power management in a virtual machine farm at the local virtual machine platform level by a platform hypervisor extended with farm management server functions

A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class based on a class node policy, and downloading the correct OS to the requesting platform while avoiding any necessity of inventorying or entering node-specific information such as a MAC (Media Access Control) address or UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).

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Kellie Francis