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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jose R. Figueroa, Frisco, TX (US);
Robert Filepp, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
William J. Hladik, Jr., Charlotte, NC (US);
Brian Peterson, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Frederick Y. Wu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Christopher C. Young, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Sai Zeng, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method to perform server provisioning on a plurality of computer systems to generate a plurality of target virtual machines includes: obtaining configurations from a pool comprising at least one existing candidate virtual server or server image through a discovery process; performing a clustering analysis on the configurations to group the configurations into at least two groups; and for each group, selecting a configuration from among the configurations of the group as a candidate virtual machine image; determining a cost of actions required to be performed on the candidate virtual image to result in target virtual machines with a same configuration as the configurations of the group; and selecting the candidate virtual image with the lowest cost.