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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Anurag Sharma, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Chegu Vinod, San Jose, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system detects a failed server in a cluster of servers, which are controlled by a master node to execute applications and store data, in service tiers, which correspond to sets of server performance characteristics, in storage domains, which correspond to server racks, in the cluster of servers. By accessing a cluster database, the system identifies applications installed on the failed server and any affinities that the identified applications have for any type of server, any service tier, and/or any storage domain. The system uses the cluster's current configuration to update the identified affinities for the identified applications. After the updated affinities for the identified applications is provided to the cluster database, a master node is enabled to identify replacement server(s), for the identified applications, and install the identified applications in the identified replacement server(s), thereby enabling the replacement server(s) to substitute for the failed server and store data.