Patent ID: 9213573
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for placement of a plurality of virtual machines, comprising: assigning, to a hardware resource, a plurality of candidate virtual machines selected from the plurality of virtual machines, wherein a candidate virtual machine is a virtual machine that uses performance resources of the hardware resource beyond performance resources available on the hardware resource; generating a user location vector for each candidate virtual machine from the plurality of candidate virtual machines by aggregating a plurality of user location metrics for the candidate virtual machine, the user location vector represents an aggregate of a velocity, and direction of movement for a plurality of users on the candidate virtual machine, wherein aggregating the user location metric includes: ranking, in response to a performance resource demanded by the plurality of candidate virtual machines being at or above a threshold of the performance resource available on the hardware resource, the plurality of candidate virtual machines as a function of an aggregate user location vector for each candidate virtual machine; selecting a subset of the candidate virtual machines for migration based on the ranking; and migrating, responsive to the selecting, the subset of candidate virtual machines to the hardware resource.