GREEN LOAD BALANCING IN GLOBAL LOAD BALANCING DEPLOYMENTS

The disclosure provides an approach for load balancing requests among data centers based on one or more environmental impact factors of the data centers. A method of load balancing requests among data centers is provided. The method includes receiving, at a load balancer from a client, a service req...

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Hauptverfasser:	Iyer, Sreeram, Pfaff, Benjamin L, SREENIVASAN, RAJAGOPAL, Firoiu, Victor, Maji, Diptyaroop
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Zusammenfassung:	The disclosure provides an approach for load balancing requests among data centers based on one or more environmental impact factors of the data centers. A method of load balancing requests among data centers is provided. The method includes receiving, at a load balancer from a client, a service request. The method further includes selecting, by the load balancer, a first data center of a plurality of data centers based on one or more environmental impact factors associated with each of the plurality of data centers. The method further includes causing the service request to be serviced by the selected first data center.