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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

May. 20, 2010
Applicants:

Nils P. Hansson, Kirkland, WA (US);

Bruce A. Smith, Austin, TX (US);

Edward S. Suffern, Durham, NC (US);

James L. Wooldridge, Kirkland, WA (US);

Inventors:

Nils P. Hansson, Kirkland, WA (US);

Bruce A. Smith, Austin, TX (US);

Edward S. Suffern, Durham, NC (US);

James L. Wooldridge, Kirkland, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

Virtual machine management among networked servers coupled for data communications with a data communications network that includes a network device and a Virtual Machine Management Module ('VMMM'), where VM management includes: monitoring, by the network device, network traffic of applications executing in virtual machines of the servers; determining, in dependence upon the monitored network traffic, whether a particular application's network traffic exceeds a predetermined threshold, the particular application executing in a particular virtual machine of a particular server; if the particular application's network traffic exceeds the predetermined threshold, allocating, by the VMMM, an additional virtual machine in a different server; and instantiating, by the VMMM, in the additional virtual machine at least one application.


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