Patent ID: 9003007
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center, the data center comprising a plurality of virtual machines (‘VMs’), each VM comprising a module of automated computing machinery installed upon a computer in the data center and characterized by a Universally Unique Identifier (‘UUID’), the plurality of VMs comprising a first VM and a second VM, the first VM having an affinity requirement to be installed on a different computer than the second VM, the second VM having an affinity requirement to be installed on a different computer than the first VM, the data center further comprising a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs, the method comprising: communicating, by the first VM to the data center administration server, the UUID of the second VM; and moving by the data center administration server, the first VM to a different computer in the data center than the second VM.