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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vishal Gupta, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nikhil Ayyagari, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thayumanavan Sridhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an approach for managing an application workload on a computer system that includes data centers. The application workload includes first application instances running on a first data center and second application instances running on a second data center. The method comprises collecting usage data of first application instances, usage data of second application instances, and combining the collected data. The method further comprises evaluating the combined data to determine low health in least one application instance, and restarting the at least one application instance or creating a new application instance. The method further comprises evaluating the combined data to determine whether to change size of the application workload, and in which data center to place a second new application instance if increasing size. The method further comprises contacting a component of the chosen data center to place the second new application instance within a local host machine.