Dynamic management of virtual partition workload through service level optimization

摘要

The present invention is directed to a system and method for managing allocation of a computer resource to at least one partition of a plurality of partitions 203 of a multiple partition computer system, the system comprising: a plurality of work load managers 20, with one work load manager associated with each partition of the plurality of partitions, wherein each work load manager determines a resource request value for the computer resource based on at least one priority assigned to its partition associated with the computer resource; and a partition load manager 201 that is operative to form an allocation value for each respective partition based on a respective resource request value; wherein the system apportions the computer resource among the plurality of partitions based on the allocation values. <IMAGE>