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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2014
Applicant:

Ca, Inc., Islandia, NY (US);

Inventors:

Peter James Gilbert, Teaneck, NJ (US);

Salvatore Pilo, Smithtown, NY (US);

Richard John Wcislicki Lankester, Ottawa, CA;

James B. Mercer, Millville, MA (US);

John Wiley Ashby, Jr., Austin, TX (US);

Paul David Peterson, Round Rock, TX (US);

Lara Virginia Greden, Reston, VA (US);

Dhesikan Ananchaperumal, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Francois Marie Bruno Cattoen, Newton, MA (US);

Assignee:

CA, Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5044 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2209/503 (2013.01);
Abstract

A resource management node includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes computer readable program code that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations. The operations can include, for each of a plurality of guest virtual machines (VMs), determining operational resources of physical host machines available in a distributed computing system that are needed to provide the guest VM. The operations can further include determining an amount of infrastructure of a distributed computing system used by a defined placement of physical host machines in racks of the distributed computing system.


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