Vmware, Inc.

Varun S Lingaraju

Zhelong Pan

Lei Lu

Rajesh Venkatasubramanian

Sahan Bamunavita Gamage

Matthew Kim

Charan K Singh

Bing Hu

Xiaoyuan Lu

Maarten Wiggers

Pradeep Ramachandra

Various examples are disclosed for performing cross-cluster load balancing. In some aspects, a workload is selected for cross-cluster migration. A destination cluster is identified for a migration of the workload from a source cluster to the destination cluster. A cross-cluster migration recommendation is generated to migrate the workload from the source cluster to the destination cluster.

Cross-cluster load balancer

Examples described herein include systems and methods for prioritizing workloads, such as virtual machines, to enforce quality of service ('QoS') requirements. An administrator can assign profiles to workloads, the profiles representing different QoS categories. The profiles can extend scheduling primitives that can determine how a distributed resource scheduler (“DRS”) acts on workloads during various workflows. The scheduling primitives can be used to prioritize workload placement, determine whether to migrate a workload during load balancing, and determine an action to take during host maintenance. The DRS can also use the profile to determine which resources at the host to allocate to the workload, distributing higher portions to workloads with higher QoS profiles. Further, the DRS can factor in the profiles in determining total workload demand, leading to more efficient scaling of the cluster.

Quality of service scheduling with workload profiles

Aspects of managing inventory for data transport connections within a virtualized computing environment are described. A virtualized management system managing a cluster of host devices obtains a data transport capacity parameter and an aggregate memory consumption value from respective host devices. The virtualized management system further identifies an update status associated with each of the host devices. In response to receiving a data transport connection request, the virtualized management system selects a host from the cluster of hosts to satisfy the data transport connection request based at least in part on the upgrade status, data transport capacity parameter and aggregate memory consumption value.

Inventory management for data transport connections in virtualized environment

Examples described herein include systems and methods for prioritizing workloads, such as virtual machines, to enforce quality of service ('QoS') requirements. An administrator can assign profiles to workloads, the profiles representing different QoS categories. The profiles can extend scheduling primitives that can determine how a distributed resource scheduler ('DRS') acts on workloads during various workflows. The scheduling primitives can be used to prioritize workload placement, determine whether to migrate a workload during load balancing, and determine an action to take during host maintenance. The DRS can also use the profile to determine which resources at the host to allocate to the workload, distributing higher portions to workloads with higher QoS profiles. Further, the DRS can factor in the profiles in determining total workload demand, leading to more efficient scaling of the cluster.

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Varun S Lingaraju