Furthermore, method 400 may proceed with operation 410, where an identification of the optimal node is returned. In one embodiment, the identification may be passed from the storlet scheduler to a storlet engine. In another embodiment, the storlet engine may assign the computation algorithm to the optimal node, in response to receiving the identification.

In this way, a framework middleware may be integrated with the storlet (embed compute infrastructure built in object storage) architecture which may help in identifying and understanding the underlying licensing types, guidelines, etc. for the applications bundled within the virtualization units, as well as selecting the appropriate application and/or license sufficient for executing the deployed workload (e.g., input computation algorithm) which may help reduce resource usage, CAPEX costs, OPEX costs, etc.

Now referring to FIG. 5, a flowchart of a method 500 for retrieving virtualization unit metadata is shown according to one embodiment. The method 500 may be performed in accordance with the present invention in any of the environments depicted in FIGS. 1-3, 6, and 7, among others, in various embodiments. Of course, more or less operations than those specifically described in FIG. 5 may be included in method 500, as would be understood by one of skill in the art upon reading the present descriptions.