公开(公告)号：US20230188418A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US17665602

申请日：2022-02-07

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： SAURABH RAJ ,  Pinaki Sankar Kabiraj ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Praveen Tirumanyam

IPC: H04L41/084 ,  H04L41/0869 ,  H04L67/1095

CPC classification number: H04L41/0846 ,  H04L41/0869 ,  H04L67/1095

Abstract: A method of managing configurations of a plurality of data centers that are each managed by one or more management servers, includes the steps of: in response to a change made to the configurations of one of the data centers, updating a desired state document that specifies a desired state of each of the data centers, the updated desired state document including the change; and instructing each of the data centers to update the configurations thereof according to the desired state specified in the updated desired state document. The management servers include a virtual infrastructure management server and a virtual network management server and the configurations include configurations of software running in the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server, and configurations of the data center managed by the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server.

公开(公告)号：US20230030000A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-02

申请号：US17464733

申请日：2021-09-02

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Sandeep Sinha ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Akash Kodenkiri ,  Ammar Rizvi ,  Pradeep Jigalur ,  Niharika Narasimhamurthy ,  Anmol Parikh ,  Chandrika Mutalik

IPC: G06F9/4401 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F8/61

Abstract: Techniques for declaratively deploying a virtual infrastructure management (VIM) server in a computing environment are provided. According to one set of embodiments, an installer computer system can receive a desired state definition specifying a desired state for the VIM server and a virtual infrastructure to be managed by the VIM server. The installer computer system can further install the VIM server on a target computer system in the computing environment and provide the desired state definition to the target computer system. Upon initial boot up of the VIM server on the target computer system, a service of the VIM server can automatically configure the VIM server in accordance with the desired state definition.

公开(公告)号：US12007859B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17670544

申请日：2022-02-14

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Akash Kodenkiri ,  Anil Narayanan Nair ,  Ammar Rizvi ,  Niharika Narasimhamurthy ,  Krishnendu Gorai

IPC: G06F11/20 ,  G06F8/61 ,  G06F8/71 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F11/14

CPC classification number: G06F11/2069 ,  G06F8/63 ,  G06F8/71 ,  G06F9/5072 ,  G06F11/1451 ,  G06F11/1464 ,  G06F11/2023 ,  G06F2201/84

Abstract: A method of upgrading a VIM server appliance includes: creating a snapshot of logical volumes mapped to physical volumes that store configuration and database files of virtual infrastructure management (VIM) services provided by a first VIM server appliance to be upgraded; after the snapshot is created, expanding the configuration and database files to be compatible with a second VIM server appliance; replicating the logical volumes which have been modified as a result of expanding the configuration and database files, in the second VIM server appliance; after replication, performing a switchover of VIM services that are provided, from the first VIM server appliance to the second VIM server appliance; and upon failure of any of the steps of expanding, replicating, and performing the switchover, aborting the upgrade, and reverting to a version of the configuration and database files that was preserved by creating the snapshot.

公开(公告)号：US11722372B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US17665602

申请日：2022-02-07

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Saurabh Raj ,  Pinaki Sankar Kabiraj ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Praveen Tirumanyam

IPC: G06F9/54 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04L41/084 ,  H04L67/1095 ,  H04L41/0869

CPC classification number: H04L41/0846 ,  H04L41/0869 ,  H04L67/1095

Abstract: A method of managing configurations of a plurality of data centers that are each managed by one or more management servers, includes the steps of: in response to a change made to the configurations of one of the data centers, updating a desired state document that specifies a desired state of each of the data centers, the updated desired state document including the change; and instructing each of the data centers to update the configurations thereof according to the desired state specified in the updated desired state document. The management servers include a virtual infrastructure management server and a virtual network management server and the configurations include configurations of software running in the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server, and configurations of the data center managed by the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server.

公开(公告)号：US20230224205A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-13

申请号：US17691153

申请日：2022-03-10

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： KRISHNENDU GORAI ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Akash Kodenkiri ,  Anil Narayanan Nair ,  Ammar Rizvi ,  Niharika Narasimhamurthy

IPC: H04L41/046 ,  G06F9/50 ,  H04L67/10

CPC classification number: H04L41/046 ,  G06F9/5077 ,  H04L67/10 ,  G06F2209/5011

Abstract: A method of reserving hardware resources for management appliances of a software-defined data center (SDDC) that have been deployed onto one or more hosts of a cluster of hosts, includes reserving hardware resources of the cluster for a resource pool that has been created for the management appliances, the hardware resources including at least processor resources of the hosts and memory resources of the hosts, and assigning the management appliances to the resource pool created for the management appliances. The management appliances share the hardware resources of the cluster with one or more other resource pools and, after the steps of reserving and assigning, are allocated at least the hardware resources that have been reserved for the resource pool created for the management appliances.

公开(公告)号：US11086616B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16141091

申请日：2018-09-25

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Tomo Vladimirov Simeonov ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G06F8/656 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A system for upgrading an application running on a virtual computing instance (VCI) can include a processing resource, a memory resource, and a VCI manager. The VCI manager can be executed by the processing resource and the memory resource and can be configured to cause a first VCI that is running the application to be copied as a second VCI, cause an updated version of the application to be installed on the second VCI, and cause a private network to be generated between the first VCI and the second VCI. The VCI manager can be further configured to cause data to be synchronized between the first VCI to the second VCI via the private network and cause the application running on the first VCI to be deactivated and cause the updated version of the application to be activated on the second VCI.

公开(公告)号：US20200097280A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-26

申请号：US16141091

申请日：2018-09-25

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Tomo Vladimirov Simeonov ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev

IPC: G06F8/656 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A system for upgrading an application running on a virtual computing instance (VCI) can include a processing resource, a memory resource, and a VCI manager. The VCI manager can be executed by the processing resource and the memory resource and can be configured to cause a first VCI that is running the application to be copied as a second VCI, cause an updated version of the application to be installed on the second VCI, and cause a private network to be generated between the first VCI and the second VCI. The VCI manager can be further configured to cause data to be synchronized between the first VCI to the second VCI via the private network and cause the application running on the first VCI to be deactivated and cause the updated version of the application to be activated on the second VCI.

公开(公告)号：US20240427618A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18232381

申请日：2023-08-10

Applicant: VMWARE, INC

Inventor： KRISHNENDU GORAI ,  Akash Kodenkiri ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Vladimir Ivanov ,  Leonid Livshin

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F8/71

Abstract: A method of upgrading virtual machine (VM) management software from a first version to a second version, wherein the first version of the VM management software executes in a plurality of workloads of a plurality of host computers, the plurality of workloads including a first active workload executing on a first host computer, a first passive workload executing on a second host computer, and a first witness workload executing on a third host computer, and the method comprising: creating and powering on a second active workload that is configured to execute the second version of the VM management software; copying state information from the first active workload to the second active workload and continuing execution of the VM management software in the second active workload; and creating and powering on a second passive workload and creating and powering on a second witness workload.

公开(公告)号：US20240345860A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18299481

申请日：2023-04-12

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Nidhin Urmese ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Krishnendu Gorai ,  Narasimha Gopal Gorthi ,  Rashmi Badavanahalli Nagaraja Gupta

IPC: G06F9/455

CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/4557 ,  G06F2009/45587

Abstract: An example method of enabling a virtual infrastructure management (VIM) appliance for lifecycle management includes: identifying, by a cloud platform executing in a public cloud, a manager VIM appliance for the VIM appliance, the manager VIM appliance and the VIM appliance executing in at least one on-premises data center of an on-premises environment; obtaining information related to a management cluster having the manager VIM appliance and a virtual machine (VM) executing the VIM appliance; creating and applying, by the cloud platform in response to the information, a desired state for both the manager VIM appliance and the VIM appliance; and updating the cloud platform with a topology of the manager VIM appliance and the VIM appliance in the management cluster.

公开(公告)号：US20240220284A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18122162

申请日：2023-03-16

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： KALYAN DEVARAKONDA ,  Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev ,  Georgi Lyubomirov Dimitrov ,  Narasimha Gopal Gorthi ,  Lipsa Nayak

IPC: G06F9/445

CPC classification number: G06F9/44526 ,  G06F9/4451

Abstract: Drift is automatically detected in configuration of services running in a management appliance of a software-defined data center. A method of automatically detecting drift includes: in response to a notification of a change in a configuration of a first service enabled for proactive drift detection, transmitting a first request to compute drift in the configuration of the first service to a plug-in of the first service, the first request including the change in the configuration of the first service; periodically, at designated time intervals, transmitting a second request to compute drift in the configuration of a second service enabled for passive drift detection, to the plug-in of the second service, the second request including a current state of the configuration of the second service; and notifying a desired state management service of the computed drift in the configuration of the first and second services.