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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2013
Ofer Biran, Haifa, IL;
Erez Hadad, Nahariya, IL;
Elliot K. Kolodmer, Haifa, IL;
Dean H. Lorenz, Haifa, IL;
Yosef Moatti, Haifa, IL;
Ofer Biran, Haifa, IL;
Erez Hadad, Nahariya, IL;
Elliot K. Kolodmer, Haifa, IL;
Dean H. Lorenz, Haifa, IL;
Yosef Moatti, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for reducing risk of service interruptions for one or more virtual machines (VMs) in a computing environment are provided. The method comprises computing a placement scheme for placing at least one VM on one or more hosts according to a set of placement constraints defined for the VM, wherein the set of placement constraints comprises at least one availability constraint defined for the VM, wherein the availability constraint designates a N resiliency level, wherein N corresponds to number of host failures that may occur before the services provided by the VM are interrupted.