DEPLOYING VIRTUAL MACHINE ON HOST BASED ON WORKLOAD CHARACTERISATION Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G06F15/16 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: sub-rating is calculated for each of several resources available from a potential host, where the sub-rating for the resource corresponds to the amount of the resource which remains free after a potential virtual machine (VM) is deployed on the potential host. Thereafter, a rating is calculated from the calculated sub-ratings to characterise how well the potential host can accommodate the potential VM. The rating for the potential host is presented to a selector which determines whether to deploy the potential VM on the potential host based on the rating thereof.

EFFECT: high efficiency of deploying a potential virtual machine on a potential host owing to consideration of resources available from the potential host, and resources required by the potential virtual machine.

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