Patent ID: 8051382

Claim:
A method comprising: a workstation presenting on a display icons including a mobile icon and plural target icons for said mobile icon; a user dragging said mobile icon to one of said target icons; said workstation responding to said dragging by displaying rating indications of drop-target ratings for each of said target icons; said workstation is connected to a managed system including a workload and hosts for said workload, said mobile icon representing said workload, said target icons representing respective hosts, and said ratings respectively representing degrees to which said hosts meet requirements of said workload; and a target icon with rating indications is a suitable drop target for a drag and drop operation, wherein a first rating indication indicates that minimum requirements are met, wherein a second rating indication indicates that recommended requirements are met, wherein a third rating indication indicates that maximal requirements are met, wherein a fourth rating indication indicates that migration to the target will require a manual reconfiguration, and wherein a fifth rating indication indicates that migration can be effected without manual reconfiguration.