Patent ID: 9727360
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. A method comprising: assigning, in dependence upon a comparison between compute tasks of each virtual machine of a plurality of virtual machines to compute tasks of other virtual machines of the plurality of virtual machines, a computing intensity level to each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines, wherein one or more virtual machines with least compute intensive tasks are assigned a lowest computing intensity level; assigning a priority level to each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines including assigning a virtual machine that includes a client operating system a higher priority level than a virtual machine that includes a server operating system; prior to moving each of the plurality of virtual machines to a server for execution, determining that each of a plurality of servers includes a virtual graphics processing unit (VGPU) that is available to perform compute intensive tasks for the plurality of virtual machines, wherein determining that each of the plurality of servers includes a VGPU further comprises receiving, from each the plurality of servers, information indicating resources available at the server and examining the indicated resources for a VGPU; and assigning one of the VGPUs of the plurality of servers to a virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines in dependence upon the computing intensity level and the priority level of the virtual machine and the number of VGPUs available to perform the compute intensive tasks, including selecting a virtual machine with a priority level above a predetermined threshold and compute intensity below a predetermined threshold.