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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
May. 18, 2012
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Assigning virtual machines to host machines in a cloud computing arrangement includes at least one of several techniques that facilitate reducing or minimizing the number of host machines serving virtual machines. One technique includes using place holders in place of a virtual machine that vacates a host machine. The place holders indicate the type of vacated virtual machine and are replaced with a new virtual machine request of a corresponding type. Another technique includes a greedy assignment algorithm for identifying a host machine for a new virtual machine request that will yield an optimized increment to a value of a function that corresponds to a current cloud resource allocation. One technique includes using a modified version of a derivative of the function used in the greedy assignment algorithm, with the modification depending on a number of virtual machines in the cloud system at the time of the new request.