Microsoft Corporation
RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES

Abstract:

A system and method include reception of a request to create a virtual machine associated with a requested number of resource units of each of a plurality of resource types, determination, for each of the plurality of resource types, of a pool of available resource units, random selection, for each of the plurality of resource types, of the requested number of resource units from the pool of available resource units of the resource type, and allocation of the selected resource units of each of the plurality of resource types to the virtual machine.