公开(公告)号：US20240155026A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-09

申请号：US18095014

申请日：2023-01-10

Applicant: VMware LLC

Inventor： RAJAGOPAL SREENIVASAN ,  Sreeram Iyer ,  Benjamin L. Pfaff ,  Victor Firoiu ,  Diptyaroop Maji

IPC: H04L67/1012

CPC classification number: H04L67/1012

Abstract: 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.