Moving deployment of images between computers

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions when executed comprise:

• calculating a unit workload comprising an average processor speed required by execution of a plurality of images and an average memory amount required by the execution of the plurality of images;
• determining whether an integer multiple of the average processor speed required by the execution of the plurality of images minus a free processor speed at a source computer is greater than a first threshold amount, an integer multiple of the average memory amount required by the execution of the plurality of images minus a free memory amount at the source computer is greater than a second threshold amount, the integer multiple of the average processor speed required minus a processor speed requirement of a source image at the source computer is less than a third threshold amount, and the integer multiple of the average memory required minus a memory requirement of the source image at the source computer is less than a fourth threshold amount;
• and
• if the integer multiple of the average processor speed required by the execution of the plurality of images minus the free processor speed at the source computer is greater than the first threshold amount, the integer multiple of the average memory amount required by the execution of the plurality of images minus the free memory amount at the source computer is greater than the second threshold amount, the integer multiple of the average processor speed required minus the processor speed requirement of the source image at the source computer is less than the third threshold amount, and the integer multiple of the average memory required minus the memory requirement of the source image at the source computer is less than the fourth threshold amount, moving deployment of the source image from the source computer to a destination computer.

A computer system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory is encoded with instructions that when executed on the processor comprise:
• calculating a unit workload comprising an average processor speed required by execution of a plurality of images and an average memory amount required by the execution of the plurality of images,
• determining whether an integer multiple of the average processor speed required by the execution of the plurality of images minus a free processor speed at a source computer is greater than a first threshold amount, an integer multiple of the average memory amount required by the execution of the plurality of images minus a free memory amount at the source computer is greater than a second threshold amount, the integer multiple of the average processor speed required minus a processor speed requirement of a source image at the source computer is less than a third threshold amount, and the integer multiple of the average memory required minus a memory requirement of the source image at the source computer is less than a fourth threshold amount, a destination computer has a free processor speed greater than the processor speed requirement of the source image and a free memory amount is greater than the memory requirement of the source image, an integer multiple of the average processor speed minus the free processor speed of the destination computer minus the processor speed requirement of the source image is less than the first threshold amount and an integer multiple of the average memory amount required minus the free memory amount of the destination computer minus the memory requirement of the source image is less than the second threshold amount, and
• if the integer multiple of the average processor speed required by the execution of the plurality of images minus the free processor speed at the source computer is greater than the first threshold amount, the integer multiple of the average memory amount required by the execution of the plurality of images minus the free memory amount at the source computer is greater than the second threshold amount, the integer multiple of the average processor speed required minus the processor speed requirement of the source image at the source computer is less than the third threshold amount, and the integer multiple of the average memory required minus the memory requirement of the source image at the source computer is less than the fourth threshold amount, the destination computer has the free processor speed greater than the processor speed requirement of the source image and the free memory amount is greater than the memory requirement of the source image, the integer multiple of the average processor speed minus the free processor speed of the destination computer minus the processor speed requirement of the source image is less than the first threshold amount and the integer multiple of the average memory amount required minus the free memory amount of the destination computer minus the memory requirement of the source image is less than the second threshold amount, moving the deployment of the source image from the source computer to the destination computer.