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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2011
Jason L. Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Jeffery L. Coveyduc, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher W. Roach, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason L. Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Jeffery L. Coveyduc, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher W. Roach, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention generally describe how to utilize a pool of raw computing resources to dynamically resize environments due to workloads. Specifically, embodiments of the invention provide an approach for generating a partially pre-provisioned pool of virtual machines (VMs). The pool is typically derived from a history of patterns weighted by a potential state of a corresponding VM image to fulfill a workload request. For each VM instance, this approach determines/calculates the number of times that an instance represents a possible starting point for a VM request. The starting points are then normalized to create a probability distribution of the resulting partially pre-provisioned pool of virtual machines.