This application is a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of PCT International Application Serial No. PCT/CN2018/092840, filed on Jun. 26, 2018 and entitled “OVERSUBSCRIBABLE RESOURCE ALLOCATION”, which application is considered part of and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety in the disclosure of this application.

FIELD OF THE SPECIFICATION

This disclosure relates in general to the field of computing, and more particularly, though not exclusively, to a system and method for providing oversubscribable resource allocation.

BACKGROUND

In some modern data centers, the function of a device or appliance may not be tied to a specific, fixed hardware configuration. Rather, processing, memory, storage, and accelerator functions may in some cases be aggregated from different locations to form a virtual “composite node.” A contemporary network may include a data center hosting a large number of generic hardware server devices, contained in a server rack for example, and controlled by a hypervisor. Each hardware device may run one or more instances of a virtual device, such as a workload server or virtual desktop.

