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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jason L. Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);

Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);

Jeffrey L. Coveyduc, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew D. Hately, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and computer-implemented method for managing a workload in an environment is disclosed. The method may include establishing a shadow workload on a shadow computer environment, wherein the shadow workload is a copy of an original workload. The method may include communicating a shadow input for the shadow workload, wherein the shadow input is a copy of an original input for the original workload. The method may also include collecting an original output from the original workload and a shadow output from the shadow workload. The method may also include determining, by comparing the original output from the original workload with the shadow output from the shadow workload, whether the shadow computer environment is configured to operate the original workload.


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