Soft reservation techniques and systems for virtualized environments

A computer-implemented method, comprising

• tracking resource requirements for a workload deployed to a virtual environment;
• monitoring one or more health characteristics of one or more systems of the virtual environment, each system being configured to execute workloads deployed to the system;
• determining whether one or more soft reservations corresponding to the workload should be created on one or more of the systems of the virtual environment;
• and
• in response to determining the one or more soft reservations corresponding to the workload should be created, creating the one or more soft reservations on the one or more of the systems of the virtual environment, wherein the one or more of the systems of the virtual environment on which the one or more soft reservations are created are different systems than the system to which the workload was deployed.

A system, comprising a processor and logic, the logic being one or more of integrated with and executable by the processor to cause the processor to:

• track resource requirements for a workload deployed to a virtual environment;
• monitor one or more health characteristics of one or more systems of the virtual environment, each system being configured to execute workloads deployed to the system;
• determine whether one or more soft reservations corresponding to the workload should be created on one or more of the systems of the virtual environment;
• and
• in response to determining the one or more soft reservations corresponding to the workload should be created, creating the one or more soft reservations on the one or more of the systems of the virtual environment, wherein the one or more of the systems of the virtual environment on which the one or more soft reservations are created are different systems than the system to which the workload was deployed.