Techniques for addressing geographical location issues in computing environments

A computer program product for addressing geographical location issues in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied thereon, wherein the computer-readable program code, when executed by a data processing system, causes the data processing system to:
• receive location information indicating a permissible geographical location in which a virtual machine image for a consumer may be deployed;
• issue a request for an exception to deploy the virtual machine image outside of the permissible geographical location;
• receive an exception grant or an exception denial from the consumer in response to the request;
• deploy the virtual machine image to one or more servers in the computing environment that are outside of the permissible geographical location in response to receipt of the exception grant;
• and
• deploy the virtual machine image to one or more servers in the computing environment that are within the permissible geographical location in response to receipt of the exception denial.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor core coupled to the memory, wherein the processor core is configured to:
• receive location information indicating a permissible geographical location in which a virtual machine image for a consumer may be deployed;
• issue a request for an exception to deploy the virtual machine image outside of the permissible geographical location;
• receive an exception grant or an exception denial from the consumer in response to the request;
• deploy the virtual machine image to one or more servers in the computing environment that are outside of the permissible geographical location in response to receipt of the exception grant;
• and
• deploy the virtual machine image to one or more servers in the computing environment that are within the permissible geographical location in response to receipt of the exception denial.