Patent ID: 11900159
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computer system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors for managing reallocation of resources between host devices, the one or more programs including instructions for:
detecting an event to disable a first host device selected from a plurality of host devices;
in response to detecting the event to disable the first host device:
identifying a plurality of available resources at the first host device;
 determining that the time needed to replicate at least one of the available resources from the first host device to a second different host device is less than the time needed to reallocate the at least one of the available resources from the first host device to the second host device and a number of copies of the at least one of the available resources is less than a predetermined number of threshold copies; and
 replicating the at least one of the available resources from a first host device to the second host device in response to the determining.