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Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dattathreya Sathyamurthy, Bangalore, IN;

Kumar Gaurav, Bangalore, IN;

Piyush Bharat Masrani, Bangalore, IN;

Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Bangalore, IN;

Chintesh Pulavarthi, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06Q 30/04 (2012.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06Q 30/04 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 47/821 (2013.01); H04L 47/823 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure presents computational systems and methods that allocate cost of resources of a cluster of server computers used by virtual machines in a virtual data center. In one aspect, a fair unit rate is computed based on the larger of a measured average utilization or an expected utilization of a cluster resource of server computers within a physical data center by virtual machines. The fair unit rate is a cost per unit of resource used over a period of time and is used to compute an allocated cost of the virtual machine usage of the cluster resource.


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