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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2016
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Scott Wayne Seago, Warwick, MA (US);
Angus Thomas, Horsham, GB;
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for selecting a cloud provider for a virtual machine deployment. In one implementation, a processing device receives a request to launch a deployment of a virtual machine. The processing device identifies a set of two or more cloud providers, and determines a first subset of the set of cloud providers satisfying a requirement for the deployment of the virtual machine. A ranked list of cloud providers in the first subset is determined in view of a priority ranking criterion, and a probability distribution is generated in view of the ranked list. A cloud provider from the first subset is selected in view of the probability distribution, and the virtual machine is deployed in a cloud computing system of the selected cloud provider.