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Managing Hardware Resources by Sending Messages Amongst Servers in a Data Center

  • US 20110179134A1
  • Filed: 01/29/2010
  • Published: 07/21/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing resources in a data center, the data center comprising a plurality of servers in a network, the method comprising:

  • providing, via the data center, a virtual machine for each of a plurality of users, each respective virtual machine to use a portion of hardware resources of the data center, and wherein the hardware resources include storage and processing resources distributed onto each of the plurality of servers;

    sending a plurality of messages amongst the plurality of servers, at least a portion of the messages being sent from any respective server comprising status information regarding a hardware resource utilization status of that respective server;

    detecting a request from a first of the respective virtual machines to handle a workload requiring increased use of the hardware resources; and

    provisioning the plurality of servers to temporarily allocate additional resources from the hardware resources to the first respective virtual machine, the provisioning based at least in part on status information provided by one or more of the messages.

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