Providing a seamless transition for resizing virtual machines from a development environment to a production environment

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for providing a seamless transition for resizing virtual machines from a development environment to a production environment. An administrative server receives an instruction from a customer to resize a virtual machine running on a cloud computing node, where the resized virtual machine requires physical resources (e.g., twenty physical processor cores) to be utilized in the production environment. Instead of the administrative server utilizing the same number of physical resources in the development environment that need to be utilized in the production environment, the administrative server utilizes a fewer number of physical resources by also utilizing virtual resources (e.g., twenty virtual processor cores and only two physical processor cores) so as to provide a development environment with the same resource capacity as the production environment but with fewer physical resources thereby more efficiently utilizing the physical resources on the cloud computing node.