Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product deploy a workload on a host within a computer system having a plurality of hosts. Different hosts may be physically located in proximity to different resources, such as storage and network I/O modules, and therefore exhibit different latency when accessing the resources required by the workload. Eligible hosts within the system are evaluated for their capacity to take on a given workload, then scored on the basis of their proximity to the resources required by the workload. The workload is deployed on a host having sufficient capacity to run it, as well as a high affinity score.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product build a high resiliency system pool in a computing system by analyzing hardware resources configured on a plurality of computing nodes in the computing system. The plurality of computing nodes in the computing system are analyzed to determine whether redundant hardware resources are configured thereon, an identifier associated with the computing node is adjusted in response to the determined redundant hardware resources configured thereon, and the computing nodes are added to a high resiliency virtual system pool for use by the system in assigning tasks to perform, in monitoring system health, in monitoring hardware resource events.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product build a high resiliency system pool in a computing system by analyzing hardware resources configured on a plurality of computing nodes in the computing system. The plurality of computing nodes in the computing system are analyzed to determine whether redundant hardware resources are configured thereon, an identifier associated with the computing node is adjusted in response to the determined redundant hardware resources configured thereon, and the computing nodes are added to a high resiliency virtual system pool for use by the system in assigning tasks to perform, in monitoring system health, in monitoring hardware resource events.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product deploy a workload on a host within a computer system having a plurality of hosts. Different hosts may be physically located in proximity to different resources, such as storage and network I/O modules, and therefore exhibit different latency when accessing the resources required by the workload. Eligible hosts within the system are evaluated for their capacity to take on a given workload, then scored on the basis of their proximity to the resources required by the workload. The workload is deployed on a host having sufficient capacity to run it, as well as a high affinity score.