METHOD TO DYNAMICALLY PROVISION ADDITIONAL COMPUTER RESOURCES TO HANDLE PEAK DATABASE WORKLOADS

A method to handle peak database workloads may include requesting resources, receiving virtual-machine information in response to the requesting, allocating first and second portions of a workload according to the virtual-machine information, processing the first portion on a virtual machine to generate a first result, creating a cloned virtual machine with a virtualization layer, and cloning with the virtualization layer a storage allocated to the virtual machine to create a cloned storage.