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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMarcos Dias de Assuncao, Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Christopher C Young
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A method (and structure) for providing a computing infrastructure based on virtual machines. A virtual machine provisioning system, as executed by a processor on a network, receives a virtual machine request, as an input; retrieves a virtual machine image from a library of virtual machine images, to accommodate the virtual machine request; constructs an instantiated virtual machine from the selected virtual machine image by provisioning the selected virtual machine image to accommodate the virtual machine request; and outputs the instantiated virtual machine. An image update system determines an update timing for updating at least one of the virtual machine image and the virtual machine as instantiated, based on update costs.
A method of providing a computing infrastructure based on virtual machines, said method comprising:
A system, comprising:
A non-transitory, computer-readable, storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method of implementing and executing an image update method for determining an update timing for updating at least one of a virtual machine image and a virtual machine as instantiated from said virtual machine image, as based on update costs.
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