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Patent No.:

US 10387185 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2014

Performing monitoring and migration of virtual machines in a data center to prevent service level degradation due to the load imposed by the monitoring

Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Alexander Langer, Herzogenrath, DE;

Bengt-Dirk Heye, Köln, DE;

Daniela Ionita, Herzogenrath, DE;

Tomas Muehlhoff, Herzogenrath, DE;

Oliver Speks, Eschweiler, DE;

Assignee:

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;

Attorney:

Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Meng Ai T An

Assistant Examiner:

Michael W Ayers

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 11/301 (2013.01); G06F 11/349 (2013.01); G06F 11/3433 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); G06F 11/3096 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method for monitoring virtual machines in a data center, to a computer program for executing the method, to a monitoring control unit for monitoring virtual machines in a data center, as well as to a data center comprising the monitoring control unit. The method comprises: receiving (S) a request to monitor a target virtual machine executing on a target computing unit hosted in the data center; identifying (S) a current allocation of one or more virtual machines to one or more computing units hosted in the data center; determining (S) an enhanced allocation of the one or more virtual machines to one or more computing units hosted in the data center, the enhanced allocation reducing a load imposed on the target computing unit compared to the load imposed on the target computing unit under the current allocation; migrating (S) the one or more virtual machines so as to reallocate the one or more virtual machines from the current allocation to the enhanced allocation; and monitoring (S) the target virtual machine upon completion of the migration of the one or more virtual machines.

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