Abstract: Power management for a virtual machine farm in which each hypervisor respectively serving each virtual machine platform in the farm is provided with an extended hypervisor function coacts with functions provided by the connection broker and the manual configuration interface of the virtual machine farm management server for managing each respective virtual machine platform to maximize the time that each platform is in the reduced power state.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for workload and defect management. According to an aspect, a method includes communicating, to a first computing device, an identifier associated with a second computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the first computing device, maintenance information associated with the identifier. Further, the method also includes implementing a workload management policy at the second computing device based on the maintenance information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for workload and defect management. According to an aspect, a method includes communicating, to a first computing device, an identifier associated with a second computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the first computing device, maintenance information associated with the identifier. Further, the method also includes implementing a workload management policy at the second computing device based on the maintenance information.

Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems disclosed herein provide for storage disk file and defect management. According to an aspect, a method includes communicating, to a first computing device, an identifier associated with a storage device. The method also includes receiving, from the first computing device, maintenance information associated with the identifier. Further, the method also includes implementing a storage disk file management policy at the storage device based on the maintenance information. Maintenance or defect information may be provided, for example, for a disk subsystem comprised within a storage device. A disk subsystem with an identified potential defect, even though potential defect is latent, creates a risk to the software workloads running on the IT resource and a potential hazard in a datacenter.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for workload and defect management. According to an aspect, a method includes communicating, to a first computing device, an identifier associated with a second computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the first computing device, maintenance information associated with the identifier. Further, the method also includes implementing a workload management policy at the second computing device based on the maintenance information.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class based on a class node policy, and downloading the correct OS to the requesting platform while avoiding any necessity of inventorying or entering node-specific information such as a MAC (Media Access Control) address or UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).

Abstract: Power management in a virtual machine environment that includes at least one virtual machine platform providing a plurality of virtual machines, and a plurality of separate (user) computers, each connected to a respective one of the virtual machines in a typical virtual machine distribution environment. There is also provided a function, independent of the connections of the user computers to the virtual machines, for determining if each of said computers connected to the virtual machines is in an active state together with a function for switching the virtual machine platform into a reduced power consumption state in the platform when all of the computers connected to virtual machines are in a non-active state.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class based on a class node policy, and downloading the correct OS to the requesting platform while avoiding any necessity of inventorying or entering node-specific information such as a MAC (Media Access Control) address or UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).

Abstract: Power management in a virtual machine environment that includes at least one virtual machine platform providing a plurality of virtual machines, and a plurality of separate (user) computers, each connected to a respective one of the virtual machines in a typical virtual machine distribution environment. There is also provided a function, independent of the connections of the user computers to the virtual machines, for determining if each of said computers connected to the virtual machines is in an active state together with a function for switching the virtual machine platform into a reduced power consumption state in the platform when all of the computers connected to virtual machines are in a non-active state.