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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
May. 23, 2011
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Niranjan Nilakantan, Seattle, WA (US);
Shashwat Srivastav, Seattle, WA (US);
Jiesheng Wu, Redmond, WA (US);
Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Redmond, WA (US);
Shane Mainali, Duvall, WA (US);
Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju, Bellevue, WA (US);
Arild Einar Skjolsvold, Kenmore, WA (US);
Hemal Khatri, Redmond, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Niranjan Nilakantan, Seattle, WA (US);
Shashwat Srivastav, Seattle, WA (US);
Jiesheng Wu, Redmond, WA (US);
Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Redmond, WA (US);
Shane Mainali, Duvall, WA (US);
Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju, Bellevue, WA (US);
Arild Einar Skjolsvold, Kenmore, WA (US);
Hemal Khatri, Redmond, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to invoking and managing load-balancing operation(s) applied to partitions within a distributed computing environment, where each partition represents a key range of data for a storage account. The partitions affected by the load-balancing operation(s) are source partitions hosted on a primary storage stamp and/or destination partitions hosted on a secondary storage stamp, where the primary and secondary storage stamps are located in geographically distinct areas and are equipped to replicate the storage account's data therebetween. The load-balancing operation(s) include splitting partitions into child partitions upon detecting an increased workload as a result of active replication, merging partitions to form parent partitions upon detecting a reduction in workload as a result of decreased processing-related resource consumption, or offloading partitions based on resource consumption. A service within a partition layer of the storage stamps is responsible for determining when to invoke these load-balancing operation(s).