Patent Document ID: 8140682
Application ID: 12624913
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method by a consolidated virtualization workbench for determining, from a system comprising a plurality of data center resources, at least one configuration of data center resources for an implementation of an application, comprising: receiving application information; receiving information regarding known internal features of the data center resources; provisioning the system of data center resources; creating possible configurations of data center resources for implementing the application; correlating models and the data center resources to create an interrelated representation of the models and the data center resources, wherein: the models are configured to predict a relationship of parameters for the possible configurations; eliminating at least one possible configuration based on future predicted workloads on the data center resources due to growth requirements of the application; creating a multiple dimensional analysis of parameters for the possible configurations of data center resources using the interrelated representation; and selecting a configuration of data center resources from the possible configurations using the multiple dimensional analysis of parameters.