Controlling virtual machine density and placement distribution in a converged infrastructure resource pool

A method, comprising:

• allocating virtual resources to physical resources in a computer environment;
• aggregating the virtual resources, as a virtual resource pool, at a per virtual machine level in the computer environment;
• evaluating the virtual resources in the virtual resource pool against resource pool domain constraints, wherein the resource pool domain constraints comprise a maximum size of a hypervisor domain, Layer 2 network adjacency domain size, maximum available storage input/output operations per second, maximum inter-switch link hops, and maximum virtual LANs and virtual SANs;
• determining a resource allocation adjustment as a function of the evaluating, wherein the resource allocation adjustment is configured to achieve a maximum specified virtual machine density;
• and
• adjusting the virtual resources based on the resource allocation adjustment;
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• subsequent to adjusting the virtual machine resources based on the resource allocation adjustment, determining whether additional physical resources are needed in the computer environment.