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1 US A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/ A1 Muller et al. (43) Pub. Date: Jun. 12, 2014 (54) (71) (72) (21) (22) (60) METHODS AND APPARATUS TO RECLAIM RESOURCES IN VIRTUAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS Applicant: VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US) Inventors: Leslie Muller, London (GB); Valentina Reutova, Arlington, MA (US); Ken Pespisa, Maynard, MA (US); Mike Barron, Belmont, MA (US); Murat Bayan, London (GB); Frederic Torres, Stow, MA (US); Dave Zolotusky, Cambridge, MA (US); Derek Chasse, Stoneham, MA (US); Sudershan Bhandari, Burlington, MA (US) Appl. No.: 14/105,072 Filed: Dec. 12, 2013 Related US. Application Data Provisional application No. 61/736,422,?led on Dec. 12, 2012, provisional application No. 61/828,613,?led on May 29, Publication Classi?cation (51) Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 ( ) (52) US. Cl. CPC..... G06F 9/45533 ( ) USPC /1 (57) ABSTRACT Methods and apparatus to reclaim resources in virtual com puting environments are described. An example method includes determining, With a processor, if a characteristic of a virtual machine meets a threshold indicating that the virtual machine is inactive, in response to determining that the char acteristic meets the threshold, determining, With the proces sor, if a noti?cation period has expired, and if the noti?cation period has expired, de-provisioning, With the processor, the virtual machine to return computing resources assigned to the virtual machine to a cloud. Cioud Manager 1 Baueprmt A Distributed [ / Execution _ Manager(s) 145A 1488 _. Distributed [ Execution _ Manager(s) 146B - - ( HEiSuBEmvi déiuu Resource! Manager & i 102 Application Director L5 Topoiogy Generator 120 Blueprint 1 6 l Deployment Pian Generator L22 Deployment Plans m I Uepioymen r a, k) I i i Depioyment Environment m

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6 Patent Application Publication Jun. 12, 2014 Sheet 5 0f 21 US 2014/ A1 ( START ) 1 RECEZVE instruction TC) CREATE NEW MULTi /- 502 MACHJNE BLUEPRJNT i 504 DiSPLAY MST OF AVAELABLE 8LUEPRZNTS /_ l 566 RECEWE EDENTJFZCATEON OF SELECTED BLUEPRENTS r l STGRE DEFiNiTiON OF MULT1~MACH NE BLUEPRiNT 1N /.._ 508 REPOSETORY l ( ENE) ) FIG. 5

7 Patent Application Publication Jun. 12, 2014 Sheet 6 0f 21 US 2014/ A1 ( START ) l RECEWE instruction TO PROVZSEON MULTE~MACHENE / 6 32 BLUEPRiNT l RECEWE 3NDECATBON OF QUANTETY OF MACHENES FOR / 604 EACH ELEMENT {3F MULTiUMACHiNE BLUEPRZNT l 606 RETRiEVE FiRST BLUEPRENT DEFiNBTEON / l PROViSiON BLUEPRENT WZTH SPECiFiED NUMBER OF /_ 608 ViRTUAL MACHENES ACCORDiNG TD BLUEPRZNT < < BEFZNETEON l ADDETiONAL BLUEPRENTS /-610 > NO YES /- 6'32 ESELECT NEXT BLUEPRENT ( END ) FIG. 6

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9 Patent Application Publication Jun. 12, 2014 Sheet 8 0f 21 US 2014/ A1 802 _\ RECEFVE REQUEST FDR WORKFLOW 804 l X DEM 'E'AGGED wan-1 SKiLLS? > NO YES 806 -\ RETREEVE TAGGED WORKFLOWS 808 v TRANSMiT SELECTED WORKFLOWS V 810 TRANSMZT AVAELABLE WORKme/(S) 812 -\ q RECEWE identifllation OF SELECTED WORKFLOW iv v 814 \ v REMOVE SELECTED WORKFLOW FROM QUEUE V 4 END } FIG. 8

10 Patent Application Publication Jun. 12, 2014 Sheet 9 0f 21 US 2014/ A \ RECEEVE instruction TO PERFORM RECLAMATEON v 4 90 _\ SELECT FiRST ViRTUAL MACHENE 9% F 2 CHARACTERISTEC MEETS THRESHOLD? YES 998 V NOTZFECATiON SENT? < NOTiFZCATEON PERZOD EXPZRED? YES 9 32 \ v RECLNM VM RESOURCES 914 ~\ + ARCHIVE VM NO 916 v ADDiTEONAL VERTUAL MACHENES? A v N 0 ( END ) V SEND NQTiFiCATFON FIG. 9

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