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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manoj Krishnan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anant Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Rahul Chandrasekaran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Prafulla Mahindrakar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Cherukupalli, San Ramon, CA (US);
WMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A number of hosts in a logical cluster is adjusted up or down in an elastic manner by tracking membership of hosts in the cluster using a first data structure and tracking membership of hosts in a spare pool using a second data structure, and upon determining that a triggering condition for adding another host is met and that all hosts in the cluster are being used, selecting a host from the spare pool, and programmatically adding an identifier of the selected host to the first data structure and programmatically deleting the identifier of the selected host from the second data structure.