Computing node failure and health prediction for cloud-based data center

A computer-implemented method associated with a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, comprising:

• accessing, by a node failure prediction algorithm creation platform, a node historical state data store containing historical node state data, the historical node state data including at least one metric that represents a health status or an attribute of a node during a period of time prior to a node failure;
• generating, by the node failure prediction algorithm creation platform, a machine learning trained node failure prediction algorithm;
• accessing, by a virtual machine assignment platform, an active node data store containing information about the plurality of computing nodes in the cloud computing environment, including, for each node, at least one metric that represents a health status or an attribute of that node over time;
• executing, by the virtual machine assignment platform, the node failure prediction algorithm to calculate a node failure probability score for each computing node based on the information in the active node data store;
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• assigning, by the virtual machine assignment platform, a virtual machine to a selected computing node based at least in part on node failure probability scores.

A non-transient, computer-readable medium storing instructions to be executed by a processor to perform a method associated with a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, the method comprising:

• accessing, by a node failure prediction algorithm creation platform, a node historical state data store containing historical node state data, the historical node state data including at least one metric that represents a health status or an attribute of a node during a period of time prior to a node failure;
• generating, by the node failure prediction algorithm creation platform, a machine learning trained node failure prediction algorithm;
• accessing, by a virtual machine assignment platform, an active node data store containing information about the plurality of computing nodes in the cloud computing environment, including, for each node, at least one metric that represents a health status or an attribute of that node over time;
• executing, by the virtual machine assignment platform, the node failure prediction algorithm to calculate a node failure probability score for each computing node based on the information in the active node data store;
• and
• assigning, by the virtual machine assignment platform, a virtual machine to a selected computing node based at least in part on node failure probability scores.