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

Claim 17:
18. 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 back-ends has been scaled to a new number, different from the initial number; and
replacing previous assignments of similarity groups with new assignments of similarity groups,
wherein when the scaling comprises increasing a number of the back-ends, the new assignments of back-ends comprise new ranges of similarity groups for which additional back-ends and previous back-ends are now responsible, a number of similarity groups in a new range of similarity groups now being less than a number of similarity groups in a previous range of similarity groups, each previous back-end thereby now being responsible for a fewer number of similarity groups, and
wherein when the scaling comprises decreasing the number of back-ends, the new assignments of similarity groups comprise new ranges of similarity groups for which remaining back-ends are now responsible, a number of similarity groups in the new range of similarity groups now being greater than the number of similarity groups in the previous range of similarity groups, each remaining back-end thereby now being responsible for a greater number of similarity groups.