Patent ID: 8615589
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing virtual machine instance types, comprising: defining, by a resource optimization manager, resource metrics for a set of virtual machine instance types, wherein each of the virtual machine instance types is associated with one or more applications executed by the virtual machine instance type; defining, by the resource optimization manager, one or more applications for each of the set of virtual machine instance types; defining, by the resource optimization manager, a definition of clusters of applications based on similarities in at least a subset of the obtained resource metrics for the set of virtual machine instance types; obtaining, by resource optimization manager, a target application, wherein the target application is not associated with the definition of the clusters of applications; obtaining, by the resource optimization manager, resource metrics for the target application; associating, by the resource optimization manager, the target application with one or more clusters of applications, based, at least in part, on similarities between the target application and the one or more clusters of applications; obtaining, by the resource optimization manager, resource optimizations for the target application, the resource optimizations based on resource optimizations associated with the associated cluster of applications; causing, by the resource optimization manager, at least one of the implementation of the resource optimizations for the target virtual machine instance type and a publication of the resource optimizations for the target virtual machine instance type; and updating the definition of the one or more clusters of applications associated with the target application to include the target application.