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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mayank Agarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Eyal Maderer, Seattle, WA (US);
Jon Herlocker, Seattle, WA (US);
Ramsés Morales, Seattle, WA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The current document is directed to an integrated application-aware load-balancing component of a distributed computer system. The integrated application-aware load-balancing component is, in a described embodiment, incorporated within a distributed application that serves as a control component of multiple physical computers within a distributed computer system. The integrated application-aware load-balancing component includes a layer-4 load-balancing subcomponent that distributes communications connections initiated by remote client computers among computational nodes within the distributed computer system in order to balance the computational load applied to the distributed application and distributed computer system by the remote client computers. The integrated application-aware load-balancing component additionally includes a layer-7 load-balancing subcomponent that periodically and locally computes weights for each computational node and redistributes client requests according to the computed weights among cluster nodes within the distributed computer system in order to enhance balancing of the computational load applied to the distributed service application and distributed computer system by the remote client computers. Operation of the layer-4 and layer-7 load balancers are controlled and/or adjusted by rules and policies informed by performance and operational characteristics of the distributed service application and distributed computer system.