Google Inc.

Grigor Avagyan

Dean Hildebrand

A secondary pool of VMs is used to run secondary services or jobs, which may be evicted upon failure of a corresponding primary VM. Upon detection of a failure of a primary resource, the secondary services or jobs are evicted from secondary pool resources, and the secondary pool resources can be automatically allocated to the jobs of the failed primary resource. In this regard, a secondary job may be thought of as a preemptible job and comprises services or jobs that are lower priority than the service or job on the primary resource. By using computing resources in the secondary pool to run secondary or preemptible jobs, this technology makes use of what would be otherwise idle resources. This beneficially avoids having to allocate additional and separate computing resources for secondary jobs, leads to more efficient use of network resources, and reduces costs.

Cost-efficient high-availability multi-single-tenant services

A method includes executing a pool of primary virtual machine (VM) instances, each primary VM instance executing a corresponding individual service instance, and instantiating a shared secondary VM instance. The method includes identifying unavailability of a particular primary VM instance of the pool of primary VM instances, and causing the corresponding individual service instance executing on the particular primary VM instance to failover to the shared secondary VM instance to commence executing the corresponding individual service instance. The method includes, after the failover to the shared secondary VM instance, determining a difference between a current resource level of the shared secondary VM instance and a target resource level associated with the corresponding individual service instance, and adjusting the current resource level of the secondary VM instance based on the difference.

High availability multi-single-tenant services

A method () of maintaining availability of service instances () on a distributed system () includes executing a pool of primary virtual machine (VM) instances (P), each primary VM instance executing a corresponding individual service instance and including a rate of unavailability. The method also includes determining a number of secondary VM instances (S) required to maintain availability of the individual service instances when one or more of the primary VM instances are unavailable based on the number of primary VM instances in the pool of primary VM instances and the rate of unavailability. The method also includes instantiating a pool of secondary VM instances based on the number of secondary VM instances required to maintain availability of the individual service instances.

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Grigor Avagyan