Patent ID: 7765299

Claim:
A method for automatically allocating computing resources of a rack-and-blade computer assembly comprising: receiving server performance information from an application server pool disposed in a rack of a rack-and-blade computer assembly; said application server pool comprising a blade server including an associated server agent for measuring performance of an application running on the blade server; determining at least one QoS attribute for the application server pool; determining that the QoS attribute is below a standard; allocating a free blade server from a free server pool for use by the application server pool; and if the free server pool does not have an available blade server for allocation to the application server pool and based upon a request priority value of a resource request from the application, then allocating a different blade server from a second application server pool in the rack to and for use by the application server pool if the application server pool has a first application server pool priority that is higher than a second application server pool priority that is associated with the second application server pool, so that the application runs on resources of the application server pool and of the different blade server allocated to the application server pool, wherein the first application server pool, the second application server pool, and the free server pool are each disposed in said rack of said rack-and-blade computer assembly.