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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Charles J. Archer, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Michael A. Blocksome, Rochester, MN (US);
James E. Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip J. Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a distributed computing environment that includes which each execute a VMM, where each VMM supports execution of one or more VMs, administering the VMs may include: assigning, by a VMM manager, the VMMs of the distributed computing environment to a logical tree topology, including assigning one of the VMMs as a root VMM of the tree topology; and executing, amongst the VMMs of the tree topology, a gather operation, including: sending, by the root VMM, to other VMMs in the tree topology, a request to retrieve one or more VMs supported by the other VMMs; pausing, by the other VMMs, each VM requested to be retrieved; and providing, by the other VMMs to the root VMM, the VMs requested to be retrieved.