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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Soumya Ram, Cambridge, MA (US);
Preston Tapley Stephenson, Boston, MA (US);
Alexander David Fischer, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Mahmoud Sayed, Hyattsville, MD (US);
Robert Edward Minneker, Seattle, WA (US);
Eli Cortez Custodio Vilarinho, Woodinville, WA (US);
Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Kirkland, WA (US);
Inigo Goiri Presa, Redmond, WA (US);
Sidhanth M. Panjwani, New York, NY (US);
Yandan Wang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Camille Jean Couturier, Nantes, FR;
Jue Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Fangkai Yang, Beijing, CN;
Si Qin, Beijing, CN;
Qingwei Lin, Beijing, CN;
Chetan Bansal, Seattle, WA (US);
Bowen Pang, Beijing, CN;
Vivek Gupta, Groton, MA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for dynamically adjusting a number of virtual machines for a workload, includes: receiving a probability indicator for each of a plurality of N sequential stages, where N is a natural number greater than 1, of a likelihood that a virtual machine assigned to a workload will be evicted during the N sequential stages; predicting a target number of virtual machines to configure in a current stage for a subsequent stage from among the plurality of N sequential stages based on the probability indicator, a target capacity for the workload, and a current price for maintaining a virtual machine; and configuring a number of virtual machines for the workload during the current stage based on the target number to be loaded for the workload for the subsequent stage.