Rapid provisioning of virtual machines based on multi-dimensional user request patterns in a cloud

摘要

An apparatus and an article of manufacture for pre-provisioning a virtual machine instance include deriving a weight function for at least one virtual machine request based on historical data of the at least one virtual machine request to create a weighted virtual machine request for each request, capturing at least one inter-arrival pattern of requests, and applying the at least one pattern to the at least one weighted request to create a prioritized ordering of the at least one weighted request, and pre-provisioning at least one instance of a virtual machine image based on the prioritized ordering of the at least one weighted request.

主权项

1. An article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions tangibly embodied thereon which, when implemented, cause a computer to carry out a plurality of method steps comprising:
deriving a weight function for multiple virtual machine requests based on historical data of the multiple virtual machine requests to create a weighted virtual machine request for each of the multiple requests, wherein historical data of the multiple virtual machine requests comprises frequency data; capturing at least one inter-arrival pattern of requests, and applying the at least one pattern to each of the multiple weighted virtual machine requests to create a prioritized ordering of the multiple weighted virtual machine requests; and pre-provisioning at least one instance of a virtual machine image based on the prioritized ordering of the multiple weighted virtual machine requests, wherein pre-provisioning comprises caching the at least one instance of the virtual machine image in a database.