Patent ID: 9432267
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method executed by at least one processor for creating and managing a software defined infrastructure (SDI), the method comprising: creating the SDI, wherein the SDI comprises a logical resource pool having resources from a plurality of physical servers including a subset of physical resources available from each of the plurality of physical servers to provide the logical resource pool to a workload in a cloud computing environment; identifying physical servers to provide compute resources to the SDI; identifying unallocated resources from the physical servers; selecting unallocated resources for the SDI from the identified unallocated resources; and allocating at least one of the unallocated resources to the SDI wherein the logical resource pool comprises a plurality of virtual input/output servers (VIOS) including at least one VIOS from a plurality of physical servers where the at least one VIOS from the plurality of physical servers comprises a subset of the VIOSs available on the physical server where the VIOSs of the physical server are divided into more than one SDI.