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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bulent Abali, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Paul G. Crumley, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Chung-Sheng Li, Scarsdale, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and device for provisioning bare-metal servers to tenants of a cloud provider is provided. The cloud provider operating a datacenter receives a profile of a tenant. The cloud provider identifies a set of physical resources subscribed by the tenant based on the tenant's profile and identifies a bare-metal server in the datacenter having sufficient physical resources to provide the subscribed physical resources. The cloud center reports to the tenant a set of physical resources in the BM server that corresponds to the subscribed set of physical resources. The cloud center receives a request from the tenant to provision a tenant bare metal machine in the datacenter. The cloud center enables at least one of the reported physical resources in the bare-metal server for the tenant, based on the request, and disables remaining reported physical resources in the bare-metal.