Patent ID: 9336031
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing allocation of hardware resources in a virtualized environment, the method comprising: receiving, via at least one processor external to a physical host that hosts a plurality of virtual machines, resource statistics pertaining to hardware resources of the physical host that are allocated to each of the plurality of virtual machines; analyzing, external to the physical host and in real time, the resource statistics to determine whether allocation of the hardware resources to each of the plurality of virtual machines matches a desired allocation, analyzing the resource statistics comprising determining whether a frequency at which the hardware resources are de-allocated from at least a first of the plurality of virtual machines and allocated to at least a second of the plurality of virtual machines matches a desired allocation frequency; and responsive to the allocation of the hardware resources to at least one of the virtual machines not matching the desired allocation, communicating, in real time, at least one resource allocation message to the physical host, the resource allocation message indicating at least one hardware resource that is to be allocated to, or de-allocated from, the at least one virtual machine.