Patent ID: 8838423
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for managing an infrastructure, said method comprising: simulating a utilization of each of a plurality of different combinations of infrastructure components in performing an objective, wherein the infrastructure components include a plurality of servers and the objective comprises a computational workload based upon at least one of historical data and future objective demand predictions, wherein the simulating of the utilization includes simulating a placement of the computational workload on the different combinations of the plurality of servers subject to at least one constraint associated with the different combinations of the plurality of servers performing the objective; determining a resource demand for the infrastructure associated with each of the simulated utilizations of the plurality of different combinations of infrastructure components; simulating supply of resources by a plurality of available sources to meet each of the determined resource demands, wherein each of the plurality of available sources is to supply resources to each of the infrastructure components; determining, using a processor, at least one metric associated with each of the determined resource demands and the simulated supply of resources by the plurality of available sources; and determining, by the processor, which of the plurality of different combinations of infrastructure components results in the at least one metric being optimized.