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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2015
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jinto Antony, Bangalore, IN;
Hariharan Jeyaraman Ganesan, Bangalore, IN;
Saju Chengat, Bangalore, IN;
Madhusudhanan Gangadharan, Bangalore, IN;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for placing containers in a cloud (e.g., into virtual machines ('VMs')) based on container policies. The container policies may specify compute-related qualities, storage-related quality, and/or network-related qualities that are to be met by the underlying software and hardware that supports execution of the virtual machines. A cloud director or other entity receives requests to place containers in a particular virtual machine based on the container policies and directs placement of the virtual machine based on the policies. The cloud director may migrate and/or reconfigure VMs, virtual machine disk files, and/or virtual network interface controllers to satisfy the container placement policy. After placement, the cloud director may disable migration to maintain the VM in a desired state.