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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2009
Keith Barber, Durham, NC (US);
Adam J. Friedlander, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert Hagan, Durham, NC (US);
David L. Kaminsky, Durham, NC (US);
Keith Barber, Durham, NC (US);
Adam J. Friedlander, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert Hagan, Durham, NC (US);
David L. Kaminsky, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for visualizing and simulating server consolidation of different virtual machines in a virtualized data center can include identifying different server computers in a virtualized data center, computing load metrics for each of the server computers, and rendering a graph of the computed load metrics for the server computers in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a host computer. The method further can include selecting a source one of the server computers and also a target one of the server computers and further selecting a virtual machine for prospective migration from the source one of the server computers to the target one of the server computers. Yet further, the method can include further computing prospective load metrics for the source and the target resulting from the prospective migration of the virtual machine to the target. Finally, the method can include displaying in the GUI respective graphs of the prospective load metrics for each of the source and the target.