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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2009
James J. Bozek, Bothell, WA (US);
Bruce A. Smith, Austin, TX (US);
Edward S. Suffern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
James L. Wooldridge, Fall City, WA (US);
James J. Bozek, Bothell, WA (US);
Bruce A. Smith, Austin, TX (US);
Edward S. Suffern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
James L. Wooldridge, Fall City, WA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Virtual machines are managed on the basis of data obtained from a management information database of a network switch having a plurality of Ethernet links coupled to compute nodes running a plurality of virtual machines. A management entity, such as a provisioning manager, determines the amount of network bandwidth being utilized through each of the first and second Ethernet links and the amount of network bandwidth being utilized by the Internet Protocol addresses attributable to each of the virtual machines. Accordingly, one of the virtual machines may be migrated from one compute node to another compute node coupled to an Ethernet link having a greater amount of unutilized network bandwidth. Virtual machines may be dynamically migrated in order to provide each virtual machine with a required amount of network bandwidth.