US Patent 11650837 Location-based virtualization workload placement

In some examples, a method includes: receiving, with a computer virtualization scheduler, network locality information for virtualization equipment; receiving, with the computer virtualization scheduler, network utilization information for virtualization equipment; and determining, with the computer virtualization scheduler and based on the received network locality information and the received network utilization information, virtualization workload placement in order to maximize available network bandwidth and minimize network latency between virtualization equipment.