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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ilya Barshteyn, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Cameron J. Bosnic, Jr., Dracut, MA (US);

Vijay Francis, Nashua, NH (US);

Yu Guo, Westford, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract

For managing a pool of virtual computer systems, master status and a rebasing task are assigned to at least one virtual computer system of the pool. A non-reserved status is assigned to virtual computer systems of the pool that are not assigned tasks. A virtual computer system of the pool is selected to respond to a rebasing request. The selecting includes selecting one of the at least one virtual computer system that currently has a master status and that currently has a processing load less than a predetermined threshold and, when no virtual computer system of the pool currently has a master status and a processing load less than the predetermined threshold, selecting a non-reserved one of the virtual computer systems to perform rebasing for the request and changing the non-reserved status of the selected, non-reserved one of the virtual computer systems to master status.


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