Patent ID: 9537728
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer program product for optimizing service pools supporting resource sharing and enforcing service level agreements (SLAs), to minimize service restart, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer-readable hardware storage device(s) and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable hardware storage device(s), the program instructions comprising: computer-readable program code configured to receive a request for a second resource, wherein the request for the second resource includes a second global name associated with a different service that corresponds to a different global standby service instance; computer-readable program code configured to determine that each resource available for allocation from the resource pool is occupied by an instance of the global standby service; and computer-readable program code configured to allocate a resource free of the global standby service instance, wherein the global standby service instance occupying the resource is terminated.