Dynamic application provisioning in cloud computing environments
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRichard Raymond Ellis, Matthew William Leming, Timothy James Ward
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Abstract
A method for dynamically provisioning a machine with applications to assist with work is a cloud computing environment is described. In one embodiment, such a method includes identifying a machine available for provisioning with at least one application. The method identifies work associated with a cloud computing environment. Responsive to identifying the work, the method determines how the machine can most optimally assist with the work. The method then dynamically provisions the machine with at least one application selected to enable the machine to most optimally assist with the work. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
Claims11
A method for dynamically provisioning a machine to more optimally assist with a workload of a cloud computing environment comprising one or more machines, the method comprising:
- initializing a machine for use in a cloud computing environment;
- identifying a workload associated with the cloud computing environment;
- identifying capabilities of the machine with regard to assisting with the workload;
- identifying applications for potential installation on the machine to assist with the workload;
- based on the workload, capabilities, and applications, determining a plurality of potential specializations for the machine in assisting with the workload, each specialization having a weight value indicating the specialization's effectiveness in assisting with the workload, the weight value taking into account “down-time” needed to reconfigure the machine for another specialization;
- dynamically configuring the machine with applications associated with the specialization having the largest weight value;
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- joining the machine to the cloud computing environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.