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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kalyan Saladi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMWare, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5066 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments for managing the placement of virtual machines in a virtual machine network. In an embodiment, a method involves determining whether to separate at least one virtual machine in a set of virtual machines supporting a process and running on a first host computer from other virtual machines in the set. If at least one virtual machine is to be separated, then at least one virtual machine is selected based on a number of memory pages changed. The selected virtual machine is then separated from the other virtual machines in the set.