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Virtual Machine Placement With Automatic Deployment Error Recovery

  • US 20130297964A1
  • Filed: 05/03/2012
  • Published: 11/07/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for automatically selecting hosts and datastores for deployment of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), said system comprising:

  • a memory area associated with a computing device, said memory area storing an inventory of hosts and datastores, said inventory describing resources associated with the hosts and datastores; and

    a processor programmed to;

    receive a request to select, for a plurality of VMs, one or more candidate hosts and one or more candidate datastores from the inventory stored in the memory area, said request identifying a source VM;

    determine resource requirements for the plurality of VMs based on the identified source VM; and

    select, for each of the plurality of VMs, the one or more candidate hosts and the one or more candidate datastores from the inventory of hosts and datastores based on the determined resource requirements and the resources associated with the inventory of hosts and datastores.

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