Patent ID: 11886851
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 26:
27. A system comprising:
a storage medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions; and
a processor that executes the sequence of instructions to cause the processor to perform acts comprising,
maintaining a set of floating licenses to virtualization system software components, individual floating licenses of the set of floating licenses being allocatable to any one of a plurality of cloud computing infrastructures to permit usage of the virtualization system software components;
selecting a cloud computing infrastructure of the plurality of cloud computing infrastructure for deployment of a workload based upon a match between a workload attribute of the workload and a cloud attribute of the cloud computing infrastructure; and
allocating a floating license of the set of floating licenses to a virtualization system software component for executing the workload.