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System and method of dynamically adjusting virtual machines for a workload

US12423160B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

Soumya Ram · Cambridge, US
Preston Tapley Stephenson · Boston, US
Alexander Fischer · New York, US
Mahmoud Sayed · Hyattsville, US
Robert Edward Minneker · Seattle, US
Eli Cortez Custodio Vilarinho · Woodinville, US
Felipe VIEIRA FRUJERI · Kirkland, US
Inigo GOIRI PRESA · Redmond, US
Sidhanth M. Panjwani · New York, US
Yandan WANG · Kirkland, US
Camille Jean Couturier · Nantes, FR
Jue ZHANG · Beijing, CN
Fangkai Yang · Sugar Land, US
Si QIN · Los Angeles, US
Qingwei Lin · Beijing, CN
Chetan BANSAL · Seattle, US
Bowen Pang · Beijing, CN
Vivek Gupta · Mountain View, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 9, 2022
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 19, 2043

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/503
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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.

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