System and method for assigning memory available for high availability failover to virtual machines
AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorJINTO ANTONY
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Abstract
Techniques for assigning memory available for high availability (HA) failover to virtual machines in a high availability (HA) cluster are described. In one embodiment, the memory available for HA failover is determined in at least one failover host computing system of the HA cluster. Further, the memory available for HA failover is assigned to one or more virtual machines in the HA cluster as input/output (I/O) cache memory.
Claims29
A method for assigning memory available for high availability (HA) failover, comprising:
- determining the memory available for HA failover in at least one failover host computing system of a HA cluster;
- and
- assigning, at a first level, the memory available for HA failover to one or more virtual machines in the HA cluster as input/output (I/O) cache memory.
A system comprising:
- one or more high availability (HA) clusters, each HA cluster comprising:
- a plurality of host computing systems with each host computing system including virtual machines running therein;
- and
- at least one failover host computing system including memory available for HA failover;
- and
- a management server communicative with the one or more clusters, wherein the management server includes a memory management module to:
- determine memory available for HA failover in the at least one failover host computing system of a HA cluster of the one or more HA clusters;
- and
- assign, at a first level, the memory available for HA failover to one or more virtual machines in the HA cluster as input/output (I/O) cache memory.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that are configured, when executed by a computing system, to perform a method for assigning memory available for high availability (HA) failover, the method comprising:
- determining the memory available for HA failover in at least one failover host computing system of a HA cluster;
- and
- assigning, at a first level, the memory available for HA failover to one or more virtual machines in the HA cluster as input/output (I/O) cache memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.