Patent ID: 9588795
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by one or more computing devices, a first established virtualized environment in which a first set of virtual machines are executing resources, wherein the first established virtualized environment controls execution of the first set of virtual machines by at least allocating, via a hypervisor, one or more first physical processors from a first physical processor pool comprised of two or more types of physical processors; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, license information that indicates a number and one or more types of physical processors licensed for executing a first virtual machine from the first set of virtual machines; and performing, by the one or more computing devices, a first monitoring process that monitors the first virtual machine for a difference between an allocation for the first virtual machine and execution of the first virtual machine within the first established virtualized environment, wherein the first monitoring process includes: