Method and system for optimizing the placement of virtual machines in cloud computing environments

摘要

The invention provides a method and system for optimizing the placement of virtual machine images (103) in a cloud computing environment. The method includes the steps of receiving a request to use a new instance of a VM image; Reading user-specific and general VM resource usage profiles comprising first resource utilization data; Reading resource pool profiles comprising second resource utilization data; for each of the resource pool profiles, analyzing and aligning the read VM resource usage profile with the read resource pool profiles, calculating a cumulated resource usage profile, and determining the one of the multiple resource pools having the least cumulative resource consumption.