Patent ID: 9547485
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a selection from a user interface for a virtual machine to be deployed on a host computer; identifying virtual machine settings associated with the virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine settings comprise (i) virtual machine computing requirements which are dependent on a number of virtual machines simultaneously running or anticipated to simultaneously run on the host computer, (ii) an order in which the number of virtual machines simultaneously running or anticipated to simultaneously run on the host computer are started when multiple virtual machines are simultaneously running or anticipated to be simultaneously running on the host computer, and (iii) user privileges for allowing the virtual machine to be deployed; automatically obtaining system specification information associated with the host computer, wherein the host computer is a candidate to host the virtual machine and permit a user to deploy the virtual machine through a virtual machine user interface which allows the user to optionally modify at least one of the virtual machine settings; automatically generating validation information based on the system specification information and the virtual machine settings, wherein generating the validation information comprises comparing the system specification information with the virtual machine settings to verify whether the host computer can support the virtual machine; and automatically determining whether to deploy the virtual machine to the host computer based on the validation information and automatically deploying the virtual machine based on the validation information being satisfied.