Dynamically modifying quality of service levels for resources running in a networked computing environment

A system for dynamically modifying quality of service levels for a resource running in a networked computing environment, comprising:

• a bus;
• a processor coupled to the bus;
• and
• a memory medium coupled to the bus, the memory medium comprising instructions to:
• identify, in a computer data structure, a set of service level requirements associated with the resource;
• map the set of service level requirements to a set of quality of service parameters associated with a transport layer of the networked computing environment;
• determine a current performance of the resource within the transport layer;
• determine, for each packet received at a router, whether the current performance meets the set of service level requirements;
• and
• adjust the set of quality of service parameters for the received packet with respect to other packets at the router if it is determined that the current performance fails to meet the set of service level requirements.

A computer program product for dynamically modifying quality of service levels for a resource running in a networked computing environment, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage device, and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media, to:

• identify, in a computer data structure, a set of service level requirements associated with the resource;
• map the set of service level requirements to a set of quality of service parameters associated with a transport layer of the networked computing environment;
• determine a current performance of the resource within the transport layer;
• determine, for each packet received at a router, whether the current performance of the resource associated with the packet meets the set of service level requirements;
• and
• adjust the set of quality of service parameters for the received packet with respect to other packets at the router if is it determined that the current performance fails to meet the set of service level requirements.