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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Yu Deng, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ruchi Mahindru, Elmsford, NY (US);
Cuong Manh Pham, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Harigovind Ramasamy, Ossining, NY (US);
Soumitra Sarkar, Cary, NC (US);
Mahesh Viswanathan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Long Wang, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for black box techniques for detecting performance and availability issues in virtual machines exploiting hardware assisted virtualization are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes capturing multiple hardware assisted virtualization exit calls generated in connection with a given virtual machine; calculating one or more virtual machine performance metrics attributed to the given virtual machine based on the multiple hardware assisted virtualization exit calls; determining one or more virtual machine performance issues and/or one or more virtual machine availability issues attributed to the given virtual machine based on the one or more calculated virtual machine performance metrics; and outputting an alert identifying the one or more determined virtual machine performance issues and/or the one or more virtual machine availability issues attributed to the given virtual machine.