Patent ID: 7437730
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system to provide finer grain control in optimizing multiple workloads across multiple servers, comprising: a plurality of servers to be utilized by multiple workloads; a plurality of virtual machines at each of the plurality of servers, wherein the plurality of virtual machines at each of the plurality of servers each serve a different one of the multiple workloads; and resource management logic to distribute server resources to each of the plurality of virtual machines according to current and predicted resource needs of each of the multiple workloads utilizing the server resources, whereby, each of the multiple workloads are distributed across the plurality of servers, wherein fractions of each of the multiple workloads are handled by the plurality of virtual machines, whereby, the fractions of each of the multiple workloads handled by each of the virtual machines can be dynamically adjusted to provide for optimization of the server resources utilized by the multiple workloads across the multiple servers.