公开(公告)号：US10162656B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US14609435

申请日：2015-01-30

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Amarnath Palavalli ,  Kumar Gaurav ,  T. N Ravi Kumar

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F21/12 ,  G06F21/53 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q30/06

Abstract: Techniques for optimizing guest operating system (OS) utilization cost in a processor based licensing model in a virtual datacenter are described. In one example embodiment, a virtual machine (VM) that has or is scheduled to have an instance of an operating system (OS) that requires a license is identified. Availability of a physical processor of a first host computing system that is licensed to execute the OS based on the computing resource requirements of the VM, the physical processor based license, author assigned affinity to physical processors in the first host computing system is determined. The VM is then migrated/placed to/on the physical processor of the first host computing system or migrated/placed to/on a physical processor of a second host computing system based on the outcome of the determination.