Abstract: The present invention manages the execution of multiple AMM cycles to reduce or eliminate any overlap. Specifically, the present invention provides an external supervisory process to monitor the AMM behavior of VMs on one or more nodes, and intervene when coincident AMM activity appears to be imminent. If AMM patterns suggest that two VMs are likely to perform a (e.g., a major) AMM cycle simultaneously (or with significant overlap) in the near future, the supervisory process can trigger one of the VMs to AMM immediately, or at the first ‘safe’ interval prior to the predicted AMM collision. This will have the effect of desynchronizing the AMM behavior of the VMs and maintaining AMM latency for both VMs within the expected bounds for their independent operation, without any inter-VM effects.

Abstract: A SIP workload can be defined. A number of nodes of a SIP application server needed to handle the SIP workload can be determined based upon memory considerations. A number of nodes of the SIP application server needed to handle the SIP workload can be determined base upon CPU considerations. The SIP application server can be capacity sized based upon a greater of the determined number of nodes based upon memory consideration and the determined number of nodes based upon CPU considerations.

Abstract: The present invention manages the execution of multiple AMM cycles to reduce or eliminate any overlap. Specifically, the present invention provides an external supervisory process to monitor the AMM behavior of VMs on one or more nodes, and intervene when coincident AMM activity appears to be imminent. If AMM patterns suggest that two VMs are likely to perform a (e.g., a major) AMM cycle simultaneously (or with significant overlap) in the near future, the supervisory process can trigger one of the VMs to AMM immediately, or at the first ‘safe’ interval prior to the predicted AMM collision. This will have the effect of desynchronizing the AMM behavior of the VMs and maintaining AMM latency for both VMs within the expected bounds for their independent operation, without any inter-VM effects.

Abstract: A system for processing application protocol requests is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Application Protocol Assignment System having a controller element that assigns each of one or more application protocol requests to a select one or more of a plurality of application servers according to a memory utilization of each of the plurality of application servers. Additional embodiments are disclosed.