Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product for allocating resources in a logically partitioned multiprocessor environment. Resource usage is monitored in a first logical partition in the logically partitioned multiprocessor environment to predict a future underutilization of a resource in the first logical partition. An application executing in a second logical partition in the logically partitioned multiprocessor environment is configured for execution in the second logical partition with an assumption made that at least a portion of the underutilized resource is allocated to the second logical partition during at least a portion of the predicted future underutilization of the resource.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for provisioning virtual machines via content-centric networking approach in a computing system implemented with a distributed virtual infrastructure. In one example, a method comprises the following steps. A virtual machine template is obtained. The virtual machine template defines one or more segments which represent one or more content portions. The one or more content portions are addressable in accordance with a content-centric network communications protocol. At least one virtual machine is deployed from the virtual machine template. The generating and deploying steps are performed on one or more physical processing elements associated with a computing system implemented via a distributed virtual infrastructure.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing resource utilization of virtual machines in a cloud computing environment. A cloud controller computes an index of the utilization of a resource by a virtual machine to determine its adverse impact on its neighboring virtual machine(s) that share the same resource. If the interference index is greater than a threshold, then the utilization of the resource by that virtual machine will be throttled or reduced provided that the servicing of its workload is not weighted at too high of a priority and that one or more of its neighboring virtual machines are not able to meet their service-level agreement requirements. In this manner, the adversely affected neighboring virtual machines may have its performance restored in meeting their service-level agreement requirements without having to add additional resources and/or be migrated to other areas of the cloud computing environment.