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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2010
Habib Madani, Richardson, TX (US);
Zeeshan Naseh, Richardson, TX (US);
Mihaita Prunoiu, Plano, TX (US);
Habib Madani, Richardson, TX (US);
Zeeshan Naseh, Richardson, TX (US);
Mihaita Prunoiu, Plano, TX (US);
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided to derive a virtual machine workload cost for a data center. At a network management appliance that is in communication with network resources and computing resources used by a plurality of virtual machines executed by the computing resources for providing one or more services, usage metrics are collected from network components of the network resources operating with respect to traffic that passes through the network resources as a result of the plurality of virtual machines executed by the computing resources. The virtual machine workload cost is computed from the usage metrics.