US 12,339,754 B1
Systematic topology spread of pods to data processing systems
Sudhir Vittal Shetty, Cedar Park, TX (US); and Rishi Mukherjee, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/647,289.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/2041 (2013.01) [G06F 2201/805 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing operation of a deployment comprising data processing systems, the method comprising:
identifying an occurrence of an event that indicates that a new instance of a pod is to be instantiated on one of the data processing systems;
based on the identifying of the occurrence of the event:
obtaining a fault zone policy for the new instance of the pod;
obtaining fault zones for the data processing systems, each of the fault zones indicating portions of the data processing systems that are members of the fault zones, and membership of a given fault zone of the fault zones being based on commonalities between member data processing systems of the given fault zone that subject the member data processing systems to concurrent failure;
obtaining, using the fault zones and the fault zone policy, ranks for each of the data processing systems based on levels of compliance with the fault zone policy;
selecting, based on the ranks, one of the data processing systems; and
instantiating the new instance of the pod to the selected data processing system.