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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2014
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Matthew Christian Paul, Austin, TX (US);
Mukund P Khatri, Austin, TX (US);
Sudhir Vittal Shetty, Austin, TX (US);
Damon Earley, Austin, TX (US);
Manoj Sharad Gujarathi, Austin, TX (US);
DELL PRODUCTS, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for Virtual Machine (VM) attribution with hardware information. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a memory coupled to the CPU, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the CPU, cause the IHS to: provide a management console configured to manage a plurality of hypervisors, each hypervisor configured to be executed in a different one of a plurality of physical servers distinct from the IHS, each hypervisor further configured to create and run at least one Virtual Machine (VM); identify, via the management console, a hardware capability of a given one of the plurality of physical servers; and assign the VM, by the management console, to the given physical server in response to the identification of the hardware capability.