Patent ID: 9329907
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for automated exploitation of virtual machine resource modifications, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer readable storage media; and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to deploy at least one application in a distributed computing environment; program instructions to provide at least one resource of a virtual machine to the at least one application in the distributed computing environment, wherein the at least one resource of the virtual machine provided is recorded in metadata and the at least one application receives the metadata and using the metadata the at least one application determines how much of the at least one resource of the virtual machine to utilize; program instructions to determine a change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine; and program instructions to, in response to determining a change to the at least one resource of the virtual machine, modify the metadata, wherein the at least one application uses the modified metadata to determine how much of the changed at least one resource of the virtual machine to utilize, wherein the metadata contains information about each application of the at least one application deployed in the distributed computing environment and information on how the at least one application interacts with the at least one resource of the virtual machine in the distributed computing environment.