SERVICE CHAINING OF VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200059403A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-20

    申请号:US16105264

    申请日:2018-08-20

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: An example method of provisioning a network service in a cloud computing system includes: defining, at an orchestrator, the network service to include a plurality of network functions; defining, at the orchestrator, network connectivity among the plurality of network functions; identifying a plurality of vendor device managers (VDMs) configured to provision virtual network functions that implement the plurality of network functions; and instructing, by the orchestrator, the VDMs to deploy the virtual network functions having the defined network connectivity.

    Content library-based de-duplication for transferring VMs to a cloud computing system

    公开(公告)号:US10133749B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US14582461

    申请日:2014-12-24

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: An example provides a method of creating an instance of a virtual machine in a cloud computing system that includes: accepting a network connection at a server resource in the cloud computing system from a first client resource in a first virtualized computing system to transfer a first virtual machine; receiving first signatures for guest files of the first virtual machine from the first client resource; checking the first signatures against a content library in the cloud computing system to identify first duplicate files of the guest files that match first base files stored in the content library, and to identify first unique files of the guest files; instructing the first client resource such that a response to the instructing will send the first unique files to the exclusion of the first duplicate files; and generating an instance of the first virtual machine in the cloud computing system having the first base files and the first unique files.

    Hypervisor agnostic cloud mobility across virtual infrastructures

    公开(公告)号:US11340929B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16417533

    申请日:2019-05-20

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to migrating virtual computing instances such as virtual machines (VMs). In one embodiment, VMs are migrated across different virtual infrastructure platforms by, among other things, translating between resource models used by virtual infrastructure managers (VIMs) that manage the different virtual infrastructure platforms. VM migrations may also be validated prior to being performed, including based on resource policies that define what is and/or is not allowed to migrate, thereby providing compliance and controls for borderless data centers. In addition, an agent-based technique may be used to migrate VMs and physical servers to virtual infrastructure, without requiring access to an underlying hypervisor layer.

    Firewall configured with dynamic membership sets representing machine attributes

    公开(公告)号:US11050713B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16678738

    申请日:2019-11-08

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A method is provided to control the flow of packets within a system that includes one or more computer networks comprising: policy rules are provided that set forth attribute dependent conditions for communications among machines on the one or more networks; machine attributes and corresponding machine identifiers are obtained for respective machines on the networks; and policy rules are transformed to firewall rules that include machine identifiers of machines having attributes from among the obtained machine attributes that satisfy the attribute dependent policy rules.

    Firewall configured with dynamic membership sets representing machine attributes

    公开(公告)号:US10476843B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US15455510

    申请日:2017-03-10

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A method is provided to control the flow of packets within a system that includes one or more computer networks comprising: policy rules are provided that set forth attribute dependent conditions for communications among machines on the one or more networks; machine attributes and corresponding machine identifiers are obtained for respective machines on the networks; and policy rules are transformed to firewall rules that include machine identifiers of machines having attributes from among the obtained machine attributes that satisfy the attribute dependent policy rules.

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