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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gurusreekanth Chagalakondu, Bangalore, IN;
Mrityunjoy Saha, Bangalore, IN;
Kumar Gaurav, Bangalore, IN;
Ajay Gautam, Bangalore, IN;
Shrisha Chandrashekar, Bangalore, IN;
Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Bangalore, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems allocate storage costs to virtual machines ('VMs') in a virtual data center. Methods calculate a datastore-base rate based on datastore utilized-storage capacity in each LD and each LD-base rate when the datastore utilized-storage capacity and each LD-base rate are available. Datastore total cost is calculated by multiplying the datastore-base rate by the datastore utilized-storage capacity. Methods also use graph based methods to calculate datastore-base rates when the datastore utilized-storage capacity is unknown for each LD. The datastore-base rate associated with each datastore may then be used to calculate a VM storage cost of each VM hosted by a datastore.