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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2010
Boris V. Protopopov, Acton, MA (US);
Arkady Kanevsky, Swampscott, MA (US);
Jurgen Leschner, Lexington, MA (US);
Rossen Dimitrov, Nashua, NH (US);
Boris V. Protopopov, Acton, MA (US);
Arkady Kanevsky, Swampscott, MA (US);
Jurgen Leschner, Lexington, MA (US);
Rossen Dimitrov, Nashua, NH (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Determining at least one resource node for deployment of an application in a system having a plurality of compute and storage resource nodes includes determining criteria for nodes based on a policy provided for the application, pruning nodes that do not meet a criteria for deploying the application to provide a plurality of remaining nodes, determining a cost of deploying the application on each of the plurality of remaining nodes, where the cost is based on a metric associated with the application, and selecting for deployment a node having a lowest cost. The application may be a vApp that includes a plurality of virtual machine images. The nodes may be interconnected by communication links having associated therewith costs of moving the application from one node to another.