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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2010
Manish Gupta, New Delhi, IN;
Neeran M. Karnik, Pune, IN;
Manish Gupta, New Delhi, IN;
Neeran M. Karnik, Pune, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system and technique for preprovisioning virtual machines is disclosed. The system includes a processing system configured to receiving requests for network computing resources and having a virtual machine (VM) manager configured to: analyze the requests and identify each different virtual machine configuration, each VM configuration having a plurality of configuration attributes; determine a request frequency corresponding to each requested VM configuration; determine a configuration of each provisioned VM on the network; responsive to determining the configuration of each provisioned VM, predict a configuration for a preprovisioned VM likely to be requested based on the frequency of the requested VM configurations and the configurations of the provisioned VMs; and create the preprovisioned VM on the network.