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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2018
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 41/085 (2022.01); H04L 67/148 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); H04L 41/085 (2013.01); H04L 67/148 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

Network-efficient isolation environment redistribution is described. In one example, network communications are surveyed among isolation environments, such as virtual machines (VMs) and containers, hosted on a cluster. An affinity for network communications between the isolation environments can be identified based on the survey. Pairs or groups of the isolation environments can be examined to identify ones which have an affinity for network communications between them but are also hosted on different host machines in the cluster. The identification of the affinity for network communications provides network-level context for migration decisions by a distributed resource scheduler. Certain VMs and containers can then be migrated by the distributed resource scheduler to reduce the network communications in the cluster based on the network-level context information. In some cases, migration decisions can be conducted with reference to both network-level context information and other application-affinity policies.


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