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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pradeep Padala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aashish Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for finding solutions exhaustively in distributed load balancing are provided. A plurality of virtual machines (VMs) is in communication with a virtual machine management server (VMMS). The VMMS is configured to generate a matrix that represents a mapping of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) to a plurality of hosts and to calculate a first imbalance metric of the matrix. The VMMS is also configured to identify a plurality of candidate migrations the VMs. The VMMS searches through the solution space efficiently and can perform an exhaustive search to find the optimal solution. For each candidate migration, the VMMS is configured to alter the matrix to represent the candidate migration and to calculate a candidate imbalance metric based on the altered matrix. The VMMS is also configured to determine which candidate migration to perform based at least in part on the candidate imbalance metric for each candidate migration and the first imbalance metric.