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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2011
Niranjan S. Pendharkar, Maharashira, IN;
Venkeepuram R. Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Jaya Singhvi, Maharashira, IN;
Niranjan S. Pendharkar, Maharashira, IN;
Venkeepuram R. Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Jaya Singhvi, Maharashira, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods for management and provisioning of virtual machines are disclosed. This invention may be used, e.g., in conjunction with clusters of nodes that are potentially capable of hosting one or more virtual machines. In one aspect of this invention, the nodes may rank themselves, or be ranked, based on their ability to support a requested virtual machine configuration. Each of the clusters may also be ranked based on, for example, the aggregate ranks of the nodes within that cluster. After the nodes and/or clusters have been ranked, a cluster and/or a node may be selected to host the virtual machine, and the virtual machine may be provisioned on that cluster and/or node.