Methods and systems to price customized virtual machines

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9870568
APP PUB NO 20150142524A1
SERIAL NO

14083789

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Methods and systems for determining prices of customized virtual machines required to process customer-specified workloads are disclosed. A count of instances of the customized virtual machines, required to process the customer-specified workloads is determined, based on a configuration of the customized virtual machines. The instances of the customized virtual machines are consolidated on virtual machine servers. Further, the prices of the customized virtual machines are determined based on a count of the virtual machine servers, unused resources in the virtual machine servers, and unused resources in the customized virtual machines. The determined prices are recommended to the customer. Further, at least one of the prices of the customized virtual machines or the configuration of at least one or more customized virtual machines is modified, based on a response to the recommendation received from the customer.

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XEROX CORPORATION201 MERRITT 7 P O BOX 4505 NORWALK CT 06851-1056

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Jung, Gueyoung Rochester, US 48 772
Kunde, Shruti Mumbai, IN 22 130
Mukherjee, Tridib Bangalore, IN 39 384

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