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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2014
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Luo Bai, Shanghai, CN;
Lei Ding, Shanghai, CN;
Yifeng Mao, Shanghai, CN;
QingChao Gong, Shanghai, CN;
Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
According to examples of the present disclosure, a method is provided to perform resource management in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise monitoring multiple first virtual machines to update a status of each first virtual machine based on a resource consumption level of resources allocated to the first virtual machine. The method may further comprise: in response to receiving a request to allocate resources to a second virtual machine, selecting at least one of the multiple first virtual machines with an inactive status to satisfy the request. Resources allocated to the selected at least one of the multiple first virtual machines may then be released and reallocated to the second virtual machine.