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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Eli Cortez, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ajay Mani, Woodinville, WA (US);
Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Medina, WA (US);
Nisarg Tarakkumar Sheth, Bothell, WA (US);
Thomas Moscibroda, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ana-Maria Constantin, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media that utilize a low-impact live-migration system to reduce unfavorable impacts caused as a result of live-migrating computing containers between physical server devices of a cloud computing system. For example, systems disclosed herein evaluates characteristics of computing containers on server devices to determine a predicted unfavorable impact of live-migrating the computing containers between the server devices. Based on the predicted impact, the systems disclosed herein can selectively identify which computing containers to live-migrate as well as carry out live-migration of the select computing containers in such a way the significantly reduces unfavorable impacts to a customer or client device associated with the computing containers.