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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2011
Ankit Garg, New Delhi, IN;
Tapan K. Nayak, New Delhi, IN;
Aritra Sen, New Delhi, IN;
Akshat Verma, New Delhi, IN;
Ankit Garg, New Delhi, IN;
Tapan K. Nayak, New Delhi, IN;
Aritra Sen, New Delhi, IN;
Akshat Verma, New Delhi, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Applications in a data center can be consolidated by identifying different combinations of software executing on hardware. The software can include a set of applications that execute upon a set of servers. The different combinations can have different arrangements of applications running on different ones of the servers. For each of the different combinations, a licensing cost, an operating cost, and a total cost can be calculated. The total cost of operation for each of the configurations can be calculated by summing the licensing costs, the operating costs adjusted for the cost savings for complementary workload patterns, and migration costs for adjusting a current configuration of the applications and servers to arrive at the configuration. The total cost results per configuration can be reported to a user for at least a set of the configurations.