Resource management for containers in a virtualized environment

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PATENT NO 9921885
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14840051

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A virtualized environment includes a pool of VMs, each VM configured to run one or more virtual containers. Each virtual container runs as an isolated process in userspace on a guest operating system. A virtualization management module performs resource management operations to place containers within the pool of VMs according to performance metrics, and also perform high availability functionality for containers with critical containers.

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  • VMWARE, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Antony, Jinto Bangalore, IN 64 835
Ganesan, Hariharan Jeyaraman Bangalore, IN 22 324
Gangadharan, Madhusudhanan Bangalore, IN 24 305
Shanmugam, Rajasekar Bangalore, IN 2 46

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