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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2012
Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Prentice O. Dees, Jr., Atlanta, GA (US);
Christopher Mills, London, GB;
Timothy Golden, Oakland, CA (US);
William Rouse, Hurst, TX (US);
Thomas H. Davies, Concord, CA (US);
John Becsi, Atlanta, GA (US);
Darren Sanders, Chelmsford, GB;
Ron Engle, Minooka, IL (US);
Christopher G. Lewis, Charlotte, NC (US);
Michael Shackelford, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Eric Tykeson, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
Mingkui Song, New York, NY (US);
Wayne Enseki, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Charles Ebanks, New York, NY (US);
Tauseef Khan, Reading, PA (US);
Schorschi Decker, La Quinta, CA (US);
John Van Ommen, Tacoma, WA (US);
Matthew Nolan, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing an information technology build service for building a platform in response to a service request. The invention receives a service request for the platform build from a requester, receives a plurality of platform parameters from the requester, determines whether the service request requires one or more physical machines or one or more virtual machines, and if the service request requires one or more virtual machines, initiates build of the one or more virtual machines. The invention also provisions physical and virtual storage based on received parameters, provisions physical and virtual processing power based on received parameters, and manages power of resources during the build, the managing comprising managing power ups, power downs, standbys, idles and reboots of one or more physical components being used for the build.