US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 27 for "Selection of hosts for virtual machines based on current virtual machine requirements and headroom availability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,484, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Selection of hosts for virtual machines based on current virtual machine requirements and headroom availability" was invented by Prashanth Jonathan Victor (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maarten Wiggers (Mountain View, Calif.), Sahan Bamunavita Gamage (San Jose, Calif.) and Rajesh Venkatasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage the migration of virtual machines between hosts. In one example, a management service for a cluster of hosts identifies a virtual machine to migrate and identifies cur...