Weight-based collocation management

A weight-based collocation management apparatus comprising:

• a memory storing machine readable instructions to:
• access an application performance measurement for an application for a current time interval;
• access a performance specification for the application;
• access a virtual machine (VM) resource consumption metric for a VM of a plurality of VMs that are to process the application for the current time interval;
• use the application performance measurement, the performance specification, and the VM resource consumption metric to determine a resource specification for a next time interval for the VM of the plurality of VMs;
• and
• use the resource specification to determine, by a processor, a VM resource weight for the VM of the plurality of VMs for the next time interval;
• and
• a processor to implement the machine readable instructions.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon machine readable instructions to provide weight-based collocation management, the machine readable instructions, when executed, causes a computer system to:

• access an application performance measurement for an application for a current time interval;
• access a performance specification for the application;
• access a virtual machine (VM) resource consumption metric for a VM of a plurality of VMs that are to process the application for the current time interval;
• use the application performance measurement, the performance specification, and the VM resource consumption metric to determine a resource specification for a next time interval for the VM of the plurality of VMs;
• use the resource specification to determine a VM resource weight for the VM of the plurality of VMs for the next time interval, wherein the VM resource weight for the VM represents resources allocated to the VM from available resources;
• and
• manage, by a processor, the VM of the plurality of VMs based on the resource weight.