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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bong Jun Ko, Harrington Park, NJ (US);
Kang-Won Lee, Nanuet, NY (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Maroun Touma, Redding, CT (US);
Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle, NY (US);
Ho Yin Starsky Wong, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for managing network traffic in a virtual consolidated appliance so as to avoid interruptions in existing network connections during reconfiguration of the virtual consolidated appliance are provided. In one aspect, a method for operating a virtual consolidated appliance having a plurality of servers is provided. The method includes the following steps. An assignment for load balancing is computed based on a status of the virtual consolidated appliance. A reconfiguration of the virtual consolidated appliance is discovered. A new assignment is computed for load balancing based on a new status of the virtual consolidated appliance based on the reconfiguration of the virtual consolidated appliance. Existing network connections are redirected according to the assignment during the reconfiguration of the virtual consolidated appliance. New network connections are served according to the new assignment.