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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2016
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Ram Krishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Roseville, CA (US);
Snigs Mukhopadhyay, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohnish Anumala, Cupertino, CA (US);
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for managing networked devices comprising a plurality of racks of computing devices, each rack computing device further comprising a plurality of constraints and configured to operate one or more hosted systems, each rack comprising a bit vector stored in a data memory defining the minimum available set of constraints for each of the plurality of rack computing devices. A plurality of enterprises, each comprising one or more enterprise computing device configured to operate a virtual network system that is configured to interactively operate with the one or more hosted systems of one of the rack computing devices. A network function virtualization system configured to receive a service request and to determine that a new hosted system is required to respond to the service request, and to select a rack for instantiation of the new hosted system as a function of the plurality of bit vectors.