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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2011
Subrata Banerjee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joshua Merrill, Parker, CO (US);
Ashok Ganesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Debojyoti Dutta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Huida Dai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arpan K. Ghosh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Subrata Banerjee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joshua Merrill, Parker, CO (US);
Ashok Ganesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Debojyoti Dutta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Huida Dai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arpan K. Ghosh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for selecting an optimal data center for instantiating a first cloud service. Embodiments of the invention receive a request specifying a topology of a first cloud service to be hosted by one of a plurality of data centers which provide computing resources to host a plurality of cloud services. A suitability value is then determined for each of the data centers which measures a fitness of the data center for instantiating the first cloud service. In one embodiment, the suitability value is determined by calculating a plurality of metric values for the data center, normalizing the metric values and calculating a weighted average of the normalized values. One of the data centers is then selected for instantiating the first cloud service, based at least in part on the determined suitability values.