Abstract
Service moves are carefully choreographed movements of cloud-based services across data centers (DC). Service moves can equalize DC loads and enable more efficient usage of existing DC capacity through better bin packing. Service moves are laborious, expensive, and time-consuming operations involving intricate coordination between several DC personnel. This disclosure describes techniques to automate and quicken service moves of a data center. By enabling rapid service moves, the techniques can obviate DC builds, reduce purchases of new machines (since services can be moved to grow in a location with available capacity), reduce the buffer stock of machines, etc. The entire computing fleet of a cloud service provider can achieve fungibility, such that buffer capacity becomes virtual and distributed across data centers, enabling balancing of energy consumption and computational load and achieving robustness against resource oversubscription.
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Recommended Citation
NA, "Automation of Data Center Service Moves", Technical Disclosure Commons, (November 15, 2024)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7538