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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2005
Anthony Richard Hagale, Austin, TX (US);
Srinivas Hasti, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ryan Rozich, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Stuart Williamson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Anthony Richard Hagale, Austin, TX (US);
Srinivas Hasti, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ryan Rozich, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Stuart Williamson, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of servers. Responsive to an indication that an alteration of applications on the set of servers providing a service is to occur, a first group of servers and a second group of servers are created from the set of servers. The first group is designated for handling ongoing sessions with unaltered applications. The applications in the second group are altered. A server from the first group is transitioned to the second group as ongoing sessions handled in the first group decrease in number to form a transitioned server, wherein the alteration of the applications are performed without interrupting the service.