摘要 |
A mechanism for optimal placement of VMs based on shared images is disclosed. A method of embodiments of the invention includes identifying a virtual machine (VM) image of a new VM to be placed by a host controller on one of a plurality of candidate host machines, for each candidate host machine of the plurality of candidate host machines, identifying a VM image for each VM hosted by the candidate host machine, and determining the candidate host with the most VMs having identical VM images to the new VM. |