Method for Monitoring Operating Experiences of Images to Improve Workload Optimization in Cloud Computing Environments

A method for workload optimization in a cloud computing environment, said method including:

• monitoring usage of resources in the cloud computing environment to maintain a metadata catalog of operating experiences of the resources, the operating experiences of the resources including workloads of computing modules in the cloud computing environment at least one of during provisioning of the resources and after the provisioning of the resources;
• receiving a request for a resource in the cloud computing environment;
• querying the metadata catalog for operating experiences associated with the resource;
• provisioning the resource by a host system based on the operating experiences associated with the resource, said provisioning of the resource including automatically allocating workloads of the computing modules;
• and
• updating the metadata catalog with an operating experience associated with said provisioning of the resource.

A system for workload optimization in a network, said system including:

• a metadata catalog including operating experiences of resources in the network;
• a processor for querying said metadata catalog for operating experiences associated with a requested resource;
• and
• a host system for provisioning the requested resource based on the operating experiences associated with the requested resource, and for updating said metadata catalog with an operating experience associated with the provisioning of the requested resource.

A computer program product for workload optimization in a network, said computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium;
• first program instructions to monitor usage of resources in the network to maintain a metadata catalog of operating experiences of the resources;
• second program instructions to receive a request for a resource in the network;
• third program instructions to query the metadata catalog for operating experiences associated with the resource;
• fourth program instructions to provision the resource by a host system based on the operating experiences associated with the resource;
• and
• fifth program instructions to update the metadata catalog with an operating experience associated with the provisioning of the resource,
• wherein said first, second, third, fourth, and fifth program instructions are stored on said computer readable storage medium.