Administration Of Virtual Machine Affinity In A Data Center

Apparatus for administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center, the apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of virtual machines (‘VMs’), each VM comprising a module of automated computing machinery installed upon a computer in the data center and characterized by a Universally Unique Identifier (‘UUID’), at least two of the VMs having an affinity requirement to be installed on separate computers;
• a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs through a data communications network, the data center administration server configured with administrative functions that communicate with the VM agents on the VMs to configure the VMs in the data center;
• at least one computer processor;
• and
• a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions which when executed cause the apparatus to function by:
• communicating, by at least one of the VMs having an affinity requirement to the data center administration server, the UUIDs of the VMs having an affinity requirement;
• and
• moving by the data center administration server the VMs having an affinity requirement to separate computers in the data center.

A computer program product for administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center, the data center comprising:

• a plurality of virtual machines (‘VMs’), each VM comprising a module of automated computing machinery installed upon a computer in the data center and characterized by a Universally Unique Identifier (‘UUID’), at least two of the VMs having an affinity requirement to be installed on separate computers;
• a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs through a data communications network, the data center administration server configured with administrative functions that communicate with the VM agents on the VMs to configure the VMs in the data center;
• the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions which when executed cause VMs and computers in the data center to function by:
• communicating, by at least one of the VMs having an affinity requirement to the data center administration server, the UUIDs of the VMs having an affinity requirement;
• and
• moving by the data center administration server the VMs having an affinity requirement to separate computers in the data center.