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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2012
Ajay Gulati, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Joseph Varman, Houston, TX (US);
Pradeep Padala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mukil Kesavan, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ajay Gulati, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Joseph Varman, Houston, TX (US);
Pradeep Padala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mukil Kesavan, Atlanta, GA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for placing a client in a computer network system uses continuously variable weights to resource utilization metrics for each candidate device, e.g., a host computer. The weighted resource utilization metrics are used to compute selection scores for various candidate devices to select a target candidate device for placement of the client.