System for transferring standby resource entitlement
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRandall Lane Grimm, David Otto Lewis
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Abstract
A method for transferring entitlement to standby resources between respective computers. Standby resources are made available at a destination computer by rendering unavailable corresponding resources at a source computer. As such, the aggregate number of available standby resources may remain unchanged, but the distribution of the availability may be reapportioned according to operational requirements. Where desired, this transfer of entitlement may be accomplished automatically, dynamically and/or in a secure manner.
Claims15
A method for managing usage of a plurality of standby resources included within a plurality of computers in a capacity on demand computer system, wherein each computer of the plurality of computers includes at least one standby resource of the plurality of standby resources physically dispersed thereto, wherein a source computer among the plurality of computers includes a first plurality of standby resources physically dispersed thereto, a first subset of which are available and a second subset of which are unavailable for use by the source computer, and wherein a destination computer among the plurality of computers includes a second plurality of standby resources physically dispersed thereto, a first subset of which are available and a second subset of which are unavailable for use by the destination computer, the method comprising:
- limiting availability to a first standby resource included within the first subset of standby resources in the first plurality of standby resources physically dispersed to the source computer;
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- in connection with limiting the availability to the first standby resource, programmatically transferring the availability to a second standby resource included within the second subset of standby resources in the second plurality of standby resources physically dispersed to the destination computer such that an aggregate total of standby resources made available to the source and destination computers is maintained after the availability has been transferred, wherein the source and destination computers are geographically dispersed from one another.
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