US 2017/0012904 A1 · LOAD BALANCING IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON A FABRIC LIMIT

Abstract

The invention addresses these and other problems associated with the prior art by providing an apparatus and program product that manage virtual machines in a virtualized computing environment based at least in part on limitations associated with storage fabrics through which virtual machines may access one or more storage systems in such an environment. The storage fabric limitations, referred to herein as fabric limits, may be used, for example, in connection with placing virtual machines on hosts in a virtualized computing environment. As another example, fabric limits may be used in connection with deploying virtual machines into a virtualized computing environment to reduce the likelihood of boot errors. As still another example, fabric limits may be used in connection with load balancing across multiple fabrics in a virtualized computing environment.

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An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
program code configured upon execution by the at least one processor to load balance in a computing environment of the type including a plurality of fabrics coupling a plurality of hosts to one or more storage systems, the program code configured to:
determine a fabric limit for a limited fabric resource of each of the plurality of fabrics;
determine an allocation of the limited fabric resource for each of the plurality of fabrics;
and
balance utilization of the limited fabric resource across the plurality of fabrics based at least in part upon the determined fabric limits and determined allocations of the limited fabric resource for the plurality of fabrics, wherein the program code is configured to balance utilization of the limited fabric resource by migrating at least one virtual machine that utilizes a first fabric among the plurality of fabrics to use a second fabric among the plurality of fabrics.

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Load balancing in a virtualized computing environment based on a fabric limit

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Abstract

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