Patent ID: 8966082
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a server node; and a virtual machine state change receiver module to receive reports at the server node, the reports indicating a change in virtual machine status for virtual machines hosted on a virtual machine host node, the change in virtual machine status including at least one of virtual machine creation, virtual machine cloning, virtual machine destruction, virtual machine suspension, virtual machine pausing, or virtual machine resumption, the server node to allocate or de-allocate interact protocol (IP) addresses to the virtual machines based on the change in virtual machine stares as determined by the reports and at least one policy previously stored in the sever node, the at least one policy including a lifecycle-event based restriction to be used to determine whether to allocate a new IP address to a cloned virtual machine; wherein the reports comprise: at least one of a status or a change in stares of at least one of the virtual machines, and at least one of a media access control (MAC) address or a universally unique identifier (UUID) of the at least one of the virtual machines.