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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2012
Douglas M. Neuse, Austin, TX (US);
Laurence E. Clay, Austin, TX (US);
Neal Tibrewala, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth C. Zink, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Peterson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Douglas M. Neuse, Austin, TX (US);
Laurence E. Clay, Austin, TX (US);
Neal Tibrewala, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth C. Zink, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Peterson, Round Rock, TX (US);
CA, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for reconfiguring a computing environment comprising a consumption analysis server, a placement server and a data warehouse in communication with a set of data collection agents and a database. The consumption analysis server operates on measured resource utilization data to yield a set of resource consumptions in regularized time blocks, collects host and virtual machine configurations from the computing environment and determines available capacity for a set of target hosts. The placement server assigns a set of target virtual machines to the target set of hosts in a new placement that is right-sized according to a set of right-sizing constraints and rules. In one mode of operation the new placement is nearly optimal. In another mode of operation, the new placement is 'good enough' to achieve a threshold score based on an objective function of capacity headroom. The new placement is implemented in the computing environment.