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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2011
Guoqiang Shu, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Eddie MA, San Ramon, CA (US);
Michael Nelson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Elisha Ziskind, Sharon, MA (US);
Sridhar Rajagopal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Minwen Ji, Los Altos, CA (US);
Guoqiang Shu, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Eddie Ma, San Ramon, CA (US);
Michael Nelson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Elisha Ziskind, Sharon, MA (US);
Sridhar Rajagopal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Minwen Ji, Los Altos, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for restarting a virtual machine in a virtual computing system having a plurality of hosts and a resource scheduler for the plurality of hosts includes writing a placement request for the virtual machine to a shared channel that is accessible by the resource scheduler. The method further includes reading a placement result from the shared channel, wherein the placement result is generated by the resource scheduler responsive to the placement request; and restarting the virtual machine in accordance with the placement result.