Patent ID: 9448841
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a resource management node comprising: identifying an unproductive group of guest virtual machines (VMs) that satisfy a defined rule for being unproductive on a first group of physical host machines based on infrastructure of a distributed computing system used by the first group of the physical host machines to host the guest VMs, wherein the identifying comprises: generating a relocation scenario for relocating the unproductive group of the guest VMs from the first group of the physical host machines to a second group of the physical host machines to change utilization of the first group of the physical host machines and change utilization of the second group of the physical host machines; estimating an effect of the relocation scenario on how much infrastructure of the distributed computing system would be used by the first group of the physical host machines and the second group of the physical host machines if the relocation scenario is performed to relocate the unproductive group of the guest VMs from the first group of the physical host machines to the second group of the physical host machines; and responsive to the estimate of the effect of the relocation scenario on how much infrastructure of the distributed computing system would be used satisfying a defined rule, relocating the unproductive group of the guest VMs from the first group of the physical host machines to the second group of the physical host machines by performing the relocation scenario.