Patent ID: 11893422
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the method further comprises:
receiving an indication from a container orchestration service that an initial number of the front-ends has been scaled to a new number, different from the initial number; and
replacing previous assignments of files with new assignments of files,
wherein when the scaling comprises increasing a number of the front-ends, the new assignments of files comprise new ranges of files for which additional front-ends and previous front-ends are now responsible, a number of files in a new range of files now being less than a number of files in a previous range of files, each previous front-end thereby now being responsible for a fewer number of files, and
wherein when the scaling comprises decreasing the number of front-ends, the new assignments of files comprise new ranges of files for which remaining front-ends are now responsible, a number of files in the new range of files now being greater than the number of files in the previous range of files, each remaining front-end thereby now being responsible for a greater number of files.