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Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Keith Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);

Guoqiang Shu, San Jose, CA (US);

Minwen Ji, Los Altos, CA (US);

Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for placing virtual machines in a collection is provided. A plurality of equivalence sets of hosts is determined prior to placing virtual machines in the collection. The hosts in an equivalence set of hosts are considered similar. An equivalence set of hosts in the plurality of equivalence sets is selected to place the virtual machines in the collection. The method then places at least a portion of the virtual machines in the collection on one or more hosts in the selected equivalence set of hosts.


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