Patent ID: 8365009
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of reallocating an application component from a faulty datacenter resource to a non-faulty data-center resource, the method comprising: identifying the faulty data-center resource on which the application component is deployed, wherein the application component comprises at least a portion of an application and is executed together with a plurality of application components to perform the application; referencing in a datastore an application history that indicates a number of occasions on which the application has been reallocated among a plurality of data-center resources in a given period of time; determining whether the number of occasions exceeds a calculated probability distribution frequency, which includes a calculated probability that entry of the plurality of data-center resources into respective faulty states was caused by the application; if the number of occasions exceeds the calculated probability distribution frequency suspending service-healing operations; and if the number of occasions does not exceed the calculated probability distribution frequency, proceeding with reallocating the application component by: