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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2012
Michael C. Cox, Ijamsville, MD (US);
John C. Goodyear, Mount Airy, MD (US);
Charles E. Hackett, Greenlawn, NY (US);
Kathleen M. Walsh, Laytonsville, MD (US);
Michael C. Cox, Ijamsville, MD (US);
John C. Goodyear, Mount Airy, MD (US);
Charles E. Hackett, Greenlawn, NY (US);
Kathleen M. Walsh, Laytonsville, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of configuring a migration from a plurality of distributed virtual servers to a system of blades, the method comprising: identifying among the plurality of distributed virtual servers a plurality of candidate virtual servers for inclusion in the migration; collecting performance data for each candidate virtual server; consolidating the performance data for each candidate virtual server into a usage profile; normalizing the usage profile to allow representation of a statistical measure of resource usage by the candidate virtual server; and constructing a configuration for the plurality of candidate virtual servers within the system of blades.