VMware, Inc.
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE COMPUTE RESOURCES IN A HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for managing compute resources in a computing environment. Disclosed examples are to select an offering workload in a computing environment to lend at least one resource to a needy workload in the computing environment; Disclosed examples are also to cause a host associated with the offering workload to at least one of (i) instantiate a first virtual machine when the host is implemented with a second virtual machine or (ii) instantiate a first container when the host is implemented with a second container. Disclosed examples are further to assign the first virtual machine or the first container to the needy workload.