Patent ID: 9563459
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: creating a diagnostic virtual machine configured to monitor a cluster of hypervisors and have access to physical resources, of an infrastructure as a service cloud, associated with a virtual machine hosted by the cluster of hypervisors; reporting, by the diagnostic virtual machine and to a resource management service of the infrastructure as a service cloud, one or more performance metrics related to the physical resources; determining, by the resource management service and based on the one or more performance metrics, that additional physical resources of the infrastructure as a service cloud should be allocated to the cluster of hypervisors; triggering, by the resource management service, allocation of the additional physical resources to the cluster of hypervisors; and triggering, by the resource management service, creation of a new diagnostic virtual machine, the new diagnostic virtual machine having access to the additional physical resources.