A CONTROLLER, A LOAD BALANCER AND METHODS THEREIN FOR HANDLING FAILURES OR CHANGES OF PROCESSING ELEMENTS IN A VIRTUAL NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:WO2021262058A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-30

    申请号:PCT/SE2020/050675

    申请日:2020-06-26

    Abstract: A method and a controller (260) for handling a failure or change of a processing element (230) in a virtual network (200) are provided. The processing element (230) comprises a first stateless executable function (231) that use a local state storage (232) and a persistent state storage (250) when executed on a host (240) in the virtual network 5(200). The controller (260) maintains the local state storage (232) of the processing element (230) upon removing the first stateless executable function (231) from the processing element (230) in response to the failure or change. The controller (260) also creates a second stateless executable function (231') to replace the first stateless executable function (231) in the processing element (230). Then, the controller (260) 10associates the maintained local state storage (232) with the second stateless executable function (231') for the processing element (230). Further, the controller (260) initiates the second stateless executable function (231') using the associated maintained local state storage (232) such that the processing element (230) resumes execution from its real-time state before the failure or change.15A load balancer and method therein for enabling the handling a failure of a processing element (230) using a persistent state storage (250) in a virtual network (200)are also provided. Further, a cloud computing system, a computer program and carriers are also provided.

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