Workload management for heterogeneous hosts in a computing system environment

In a computing system environment, a method of managing workload migration to host devices in a data center having heterogeneously arranged computing platforms, comprising:

• configuring a storage computing device with a plurality of fully virtualized images, each of the images including a plurality of drivers compatible with pluralities of said host devices;
• by one image of the fully virtualized images, detecting a platform type of a specific host device of the pluralities of said host devices upon deployment of the one image;
• and
• provisioning the one image with at least one driver of the plurality of drivers that is most compatible with the detected platform type.

A computing system to manage workload migration to host devices in a data center having heterogeneously arranged computing platforms, comprising:

• a storage computing device storing pluralities of fully virtualized images, each of the stored images including a plurality of drivers compatible with pluralities of said host devices;
• at least first and second virtual and physical computing devices having a hardware platform with a processor and memory upon which a plurality of workloads can be configured, the virtual computing devices having a hypervisor;
• and
• an orchestrator configured to identify which of the stored images are to be deployed to either the first and second computing devices.