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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
David C. Frank, Ossining, NY (US);
Richard E. Harper, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jeffrey Lucash, Hurley, NY (US);
Kyung D. Ryu, New City, NY (US);
Ravi A. Shankar, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas Weaver, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
David C. Frank, Ossining, NY (US);
Richard E. Harper, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jeffrey Lucash, Hurley, NY (US);
Kyung D. Ryu, New City, NY (US);
Ravi A. Shankar, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas Weaver, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An aspect of this invention is a method that includes evaluating a computing environment by performing auditing of a fault tolerance ability of the computing environment to tolerate each of a plurality of failure scenarios; constructing a failover plan for each of the plurality of scenarios; identifying one or more physical resource limitations which constrain the fault tolerance ability; and identifying one or more physical resources to be added to the computing environment to tolerate each of the plurality of failure scenarios.