Software application placement based on failure correlation

A method comprising:

• receiving by a management device an anti-affinity rule indicating that a first software application is to be separated from a second software application during execution of the first and second software applications, wherein the first software application is associated with a first computing resource of a plurality of available computing resources;
• determining by the management device a failure correlation between the first computing resource and each available computing resource other than the first computing resource to create a plurality of failure correlations, each failure correlation corresponding to an available computing resource of the plurality of available computing resources;
• selecting by the management device the available computing resource that corresponds to a lowest failure correlation among the plurality of failure correlations;
• and
• associating by the management device the second software application with the selected available computing resource based on the anti-affinity rule.

One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable components comprising:

• a correlation component that when executed causes at least one processor to determine a plurality of failure correlations between a plurality of computing resources, wherein each failure correlation corresponds to a pair of computing resources and is determined based on one or more of the following:
• a failure correlation from a user, a failure correlation from a resource manager associated with the pair of computing resources, a configuration hierarchy indicating hardware associated with the pair of computing resources, and performance metrics associated with the pair of computing resources;
• and
• a rule component that when executed causes at least one processor to:
• receive via an input interface an anti-affinity rule indicating that a first software application is to be separated from a second software application during execution of the first and second software applications, wherein the first software application is associated with a first computing resource of the plurality of computing resources;
• select the failure correlations corresponding to the first computing resource;
• and
• select one of the plurality of computing resources other than the first computing resource that corresponds to a lowest failure correlation among the selected failure correlations;
• and
• a placement component that when executed causes at least one processor to associate the second software application with the selected computing resource based on the anti-affinity rule.