IP Library Granted Patent US 12,346,743
Granted Patent B1
US 12,346,743 · App. 18/345,993 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Orchestrating self-tuning for cloud storage

Inventors: Taher Vohra (Sunnyvale, CA); Patrick Lee (Los Altos, CA); Ethan Miller (Santa Cruz, CA)
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
G06F9/5072G06F9/5027G06F9/544
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Patent No.
US 12,346,743
App. No.
18/345,993
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

Self-tuning clusters for resilient microservices, including: receiving, by a services orchestrator within a cloud-computing environment and from a plurality of cloud computing instances, respective latency measurements corresponding to respective control plane operations directed to a shared resource of the plurality of cloud computing instances; determining, based on a current timeout value and on the respective latency measurements from the plurality of cloud computing instances, an updated timeout value for the shared resource; and providing, to each of the plurality of cloud computing instances, the updated timeout value for the shared resource.

Claims (39)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a cloud-based services orchestrator, latency measurements corresponding to control plane operations directed to a shared resource shared by a plurality of cloud computing instances; and

based on a latency threshold for the resource and the received latency measurements, providing to one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances, by the cloud-based services orchestrator, an updated latency threshold for control plane operations that corresponds to a healthy state for the shared resource.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the latency threshold for the resource is determined by calculating, based on each individual latency measurement of the respective latency measurements, the latency threshold to be a weighted average of a respective latency for the control plane operations directed to the resource.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the resource is a first shared resource, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, from one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances, respective performance metrics corresponding to one or more operations directed to a second shared resource.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

determining, based on a current performance metric and on the respective performance metrics corresponding to the one or more operations directed to the second shared resource, an updated performance metric for the second shared resource.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

updating a common metrics repository to store the updated latency threshold and the updated performance metric, wherein contents of the common metrics repository are available to each of the plurality of cloud computing instances.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

for each service provided by one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances:

providing performance information based on one or more performance metrics from the common metrics repository.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, for a new shared resource available to the plurality of cloud computing instances, a new shared resource latency threshold for the new shared resource based on one or more latency thresholds for one or more similar resources.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based on the updated latency threshold, a state for the resource, wherein the state includes a normal state, a degraded state, or a nonresponsive state.

9. A computer program product disposed upon a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:

receiving, by a cloud-based services orchestrator, latency measurements corresponding to control plane operations directed to a resource shared by a plurality of cloud computing instances; and

based on a latency threshold for the resource and the received latency measurements, providing to one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances, by the cloud-based services orchestrator, an updated latency threshold for control plane operations that corresponds to a healthy state for the shared resource.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the latency threshold for the resource is determined by calculating, based on each individual latency measurement of the respective latency measurements, the latency threshold to be a weighted average of a respective latency for the control plane operations directed to the resource.

11. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the latency threshold for the resource is determined by calculating, based on a difference between latency measurements exceeding an adjustment threshold, the updated latency threshold to correspond to a healthy state for the shared resource.

12. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the shared resource is a first shared resource, and wherein the computer program instructions, when executed, further cause the computer to carry out the step of:

receiving, from one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances, respective performance metrics corresponding to one or more operations directed to a second shared resource.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the computer program instructions, when executed, further cause the computer to carry out the steps of:

determining, based on a current performance metric and on the respective performance metrics corresponding to the one or more operations directed to the second shared resource, an updated performance metric for the second shared resource.

14. An apparatus comprising:

a computer processor, and

a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

receiving, by a cloud-based services orchestrator, latency measurements corresponding to control plane operations directed to a resource shared by a plurality of cloud computing instances; and

based on a latency threshold for the resource and the received latency measurements, providing to one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances, by the cloud-based services orchestrator, an updated latency threshold for control plane operations that corresponds to a healthy state for the shared resource.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the latency threshold for the resource is determined by calculating, based on each individual latency measurement of the respective latency measurements, the latency threshold to be a weighted average of a respective latency for the control plane operations directed to the resource.

16. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the latency threshold for the resource is determined by calculating, based on a difference between latency measurements exceeding an adjustment threshold, the updated latency threshold to correspond to a healthy state for the shared resource.

17. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein determining the updated latency threshold for the shared resource comprises:

receiving, from one or more of the plurality of cloud computing instances, respective performance metrics corresponding to one or more operations directed to a second shared resource.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein determining the updated latency threshold for the shared resource comprises:

determining, based on a current performance metric and on the respective performance metrics corresponding to the one or more operations directed to the second shared resource, an updated performance metric for the second shared resource.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein determining the updated latency threshold for the shared resource comprises:

updating a common metrics repository to store the updated latency threshold and the updated performance metric, wherein contents of the common metrics repository are available to each of the plurality of cloud computing instances.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2023
From: VOHRA, TAHER; LEE, PATRICK; MILLER, ETHAN
To: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Reel/Frame 064300/0077 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17034449 · Sep 28, 2020
Provisional Application 62895563 · Sep 4, 2019
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