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Secure administration of virtual machines

  • US 9,258,290 B2
  • Filed: 10/10/2013
  • Issued: 02/09/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a first request from an unverified entity to instantiate a first instance of a virtual machine, said first request defining a first set of one or more resources to be made available by a virtual machine server device to the first instance of the virtual machine, said first request including first security information;

    validating the first request by verifying the unverified entity using the first security information;

    accessing an authorization database, said authorization database identifying one or more resources, based on the verified entity, that the first instance of the virtual machine is authorized to use on the virtual machine server device, said authorization database defining one or more affinity-based restrictions for a multitenancy environment of the vitual machine server device;

    based on the one or more resources and the one or more affinity-based restrictions identified by the authorization database, determining a subset of the first set of one or more resources that exists on the virtual machine server device and is available to be provided by the virtual machine server device to the first instance of the virtual machine; and

    responsive to validating the first request;

    instantiating the first instance of the virtual machine with access to the subset of the first set of one or more resources.

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