公开(公告)号：GB2519517A

公开(公告)日：2015-04-29

申请号：GB201318608

申请日：2013-10-22

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CIANO GIUSEPPE ,  ARCESE MAURO ,  CURZI FRANCESCA ,  PICHETTI LUIGI ,  MARINELLI CLAUDIO

IPC: G06F9/50

Abstract: A system and method for managing one or more virtual appliances (VAs) on a computing system where each virtual appliance comprises one or more virtual machines (VMa-VMc), each one comprising one or more software programs (AP), and supporting a plurality of profiles, each one involving an enabling of a corresponding set of one or more of the software programs with each other software program being disabled. For at least a specific one of the virtual appliances, a corresponding method comprises retrieving profile information indicative of the profiles of the specific virtual appliance, retrieving status information indicative of a status of the computing system, retrieving constraint information indicative of one or more constraints applicable to the software programs of the specific virtual appliance on the computing system, determining a configuration scheme of the specific virtual appliance according to the profile information, the status information and the constraint information, the configuration scheme involving a specific one of the profiles of the specific virtual appliance having the software programs thereof compliant with the applicable constraints, and configuring the specific virtual appliance according to the configuration scheme. The invention can be used to ensure that a number of software licenses is not exceeded.

公开(公告)号：ITMI20130942A1

公开(公告)日：2014-12-08

申请号：ITMI20130942

申请日：2013-06-07

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BERRETTA KATIUSCIA ,  CURZI FRANCESCA ,  DONADEO ROSSELLA ,  LONGOBARDI GIUSEPPE

公开(公告)号：GB2508161A

公开(公告)日：2014-05-28

申请号：GB201220938

申请日：2012-11-21

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CIANO GIUSEPPE ,  CURZI FRANCESCA

IPC: G06F9/50 ,  G06F11/34

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of running an application on a virtual machine executing on a distributed computer system. The application is executed on a reduced operating system configured for the application. The application is deployed on a first set of virtual machines with a first set of allocated resources. The method comprises determining a monitoring time period, and operational constraints for the application. Parameters of the application are monitored for the set period and time dependent values of the parameters collected. The values of the parameters are used to derive a time dependent metric value based on the operational constraints. If one at least one of the metric values violates one of the operational constraints a second set of resources and virtual machines are allocated and deployed for the application. The metric value may be derived by producing a mathematical function of the behaviour parameters and using the function to determine the metric value.