Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors.
I’d expect to see a lot more of this swapping stuff into OpenStack. For those companies with IP, it’s an easy way to differentiate.
IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code