Systems and methods for semi-automatic workload domain deployments

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions for a method for semi-automatic workload domain deployment in a computing environment, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

• receiving a request to deploy a workload domain;
• displaying available host computers for the workload domain;
• receiving a user host selection of at least one of the available host computers;
• when an auto-recommend setting is enabled, computing relative and absolute selection criteria for automatic host recommendation from the available host computers that have not been manually selected, the relative selection criteria including criteria that are based on properties of any manually selected host computers, the absolute selection criteria including criteria that are not based on the properties of any manually selected host computers, wherein the relative selection criteria include comparisons of a property of an available host computer to a statistical value of the same property of the any manually selected host computers, wherein the property is one of memory size, processor count and storage device capacity;
• analyzing the available host computers that have not been manually selected using the relative and absolute selection criteria to automatically recommend candidate host computers, each of the candidate host computers meeting at least one of the relative and absolute selection criteria;
• displaying the candidate host computers for user selection;
• receiving another user host selection of at least one of the candidate host computers;
• and
• deploying the workload domain using at least the user host selections of the at least one of the available host computers and the at least one of the candidate host computers.

A system comprising:

• memory;
• and
• at least one processor configured to:
• receive a request to deploy a workload domain;
• display available host computers for the workload domain;
• receive a user host selection of at least one of the available host computers;
• when an auto-recommend setting is enabled, compute relative and absolute selection criteria for automatic host recommendation from the available host computers that have not been manually selected, the relative selection criteria including criteria that are based on properties of any manually selected host computers, the absolute selection criteria including criteria that are not based on the properties of any manually selected host computers, wherein the relative selection criteria include comparisons of a property of an available host computer to a statistical value of the same property of the any manually selected host computers, wherein the property is one of memory size, processor count and storage device capacity;
• analyze the available host computers that have not been manually selected using the relative and absolute selection criteria to automatically recommend candidate host computers, each of the candidate host computers meeting at least one of the relative and absolute selection criteria;
• display the candidate host computers for user selection;
• receive another user host selection of at least one of the candidate host computers;
• and
• deploy the workload domain using at least the user host selections of the at least one of the available host computers and the at least one of the candidate host computers.