EFFICIENT REPLACEMENT OF CLIENTS RUNNING LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system and method for efficiently replacing clients running a large scale application uses a pool of clients, which includes a group of active clients running the large scale application and at least one standby client. When a particular active client is identified to be replaced, one of the at least one standby client is selected as a replacement client for the particular active client. The particular active client is replaced with the selected replacement client with respect to the running of the large scale application such that the particular client is removed from the group of active clients and the selected replacement client is added to the group of active clients.

主权项

1. A method for efficiently replacing clients running a large scale application, the method comprising:
deploying a plurality of clients as a pool of clients to run the large scale application, the pool of clients including a group of active clients that will be running the large scale application and at least one standby client; identifying a particular client to be replaced from the group of active clients in the pool of clients that are currently running the large scale application; selecting one of the at least one standby client in the pool of clients as a replacement client; sending a command to wake up the selected replacement client; and replacing the particular client with the selected replacement client with respect to the running of the large scale application such that the particular client is removed from the group of active clients and the selected replacement client is added to the group of active clients.