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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009

Filed:

May. 31, 2002
Applicants:

Darshan B. Joshi, Fremont, CA (US);

Kaushal R. Dalal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

James A. Senicka, Hampton, VA (US);

Inventors:

Darshan B. Joshi, Fremont, CA (US);

Kaushal R. Dalal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

James A. Senicka, Hampton, VA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Operating Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, computer program product and system that establishes and maintains a business continuity policy in a server consolidation environment. Business continuity is ensured by enabling high availability of applications. When an application is started, restarted upon failure, or moved due to an overload situation, a system is selected best fulfilling the requirements for running the application. These requirements can include application requirements, such as an amount of available capacity to handle the load that will be placed on the system by the application. These requirements can further include system requirements, such as honoring a system limit of a number of applications that can be run on a particular system. Respective priorities of applications can be used to determine whether a lower-priority application can be moved to free resources for running a higher-priority application.


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