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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2012
Ivan M. Heninger, Selma, NC (US);
Zachary H. Jones, Apex, NC (US);
James K. Kochuba, Raleigh, NC (US);
Aaron J. Quirk, Cary, NC (US);
Ivan M. Heninger, Selma, NC (US);
Zachary H. Jones, Apex, NC (US);
James K. Kochuba, Raleigh, NC (US);
Aaron J. Quirk, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for managing resource utilization of virtual machines in a cloud computing environment. A cloud controller computes an index of the utilization of a resource by a virtual machine to determine its adverse impact on its neighboring virtual machine(s) that share the same resource. If the interference index is greater than a threshold, then the utilization of the resource by that virtual machine will be throttled or reduced provided that the servicing of its workload is not weighted at too high of a priority and that one or more of its neighboring virtual machines are not able to meet their service-level agreement requirements. In this manner, the adversely affected neighboring virtual machines may have its performance restored in meeting their service-level agreement requirements without having to add additional resources and/or be migrated to other areas of the cloud computing environment.