Patent ID: 9323567
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for overcommitting a physical node implementing a plurality of virtual machines (VM Node), the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable to cause a management console to: receive a selected enablement template comprising a selected computing capacity and a selected overcommit value, wherein the selected enablement template is selected by a user of the VM node and wherein the selected overcommit value indicates an amount an equivalent computing capacity defined by the selected template is overcommitted; determine a user-side normalization factor to normalize the selected computing capacity against a physical reference node, wherein the user-side normalization factor equates the equivalent computing capacity defined by the selected enablement template with the physical reference node; receive a comparable computing capacity of the VM Node, wherein the VM Node is benchmarked to determine a performance metric of the comparable computing capacity; determine a host-side normalization factor to normalize the comparable computing capacity against the reference node, wherein the host-side normalization factor equates the comparable computing capacity of the VM node with the physical reference node, and; set a host-side overcommit value upon the VM Node as determined from the selected overcommit value, the user-side normalization factor, and the host-side normalization factor wherein the host-side overcommit value indicates the degree the comparable computing capacity is overcommitted to the plurality of virtual machines implemented upon the VM Node.