METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO OPTIMIZE SERVER UTILIZATION FOR A VIRTUAL DATA CENTER

    公开(公告)号:US20200226521A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16837869

    申请日:2020-04-01

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    Abstract: Methods and systems assist data center customer to plan virtual data center (“VDC”) configurations, create purchase recommendations to achieve either an expansion or contraction of a VDC, and optimize the data center cost. Methods generate recommendations on lower cost combinations of virtual machine (“VM”) guest OS licenses, server computer hardware and VM software to optimize the costs are generated, generate data center customer plans for additional VMs with Quest OS for a projected period of time, provide recommendations on lower cost combination of guest OS licenses, server hardware, and VM software to optimize the cost. Methods also report any underutilized licensed servers and provide recommendations for cost savings when volume licenses can be replaced by instance based software licenses. Methods may generate VM placement recommendations to data center customers while the customers attempt to manually migrate VMs to different server computers.

    System and method for deploying an application in a computer system

    公开(公告)号:US10205771B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-12

    申请号:US14842841

    申请日:2015-09-02

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    Abstract: System and method for deploying an application in a computer system automatically extend an application topology of virtual computing resources of the computer system and application components of the application to be executed on the virtual computing resources to include an affinity-type rule for the virtual computing resources of the computer system based on at least one predefined policy of the application topology and deploy the application in the computer system by provisioning the virtual computing resources to the physical devices in the computer system based on the extended application topology.

    Methods and systems to optimize operating system license costs in a virtual data center

    公开(公告)号:US11182713B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-23

    申请号:US15603492

    申请日:2017-05-24

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    Abstract: Methods and systems assist data center customer to plan virtual data center (“VDC”) configurations, create purchase recommendations to achieve either an expansion or contraction of a VDC, and optimize the data center cost. Methods generate recommendations on lower cost combinations of virtual machine (“VM”) guest OS licenses, server computer hardware and VM software to optimize the costs are generated, generate data center customer plans for additional VMs with Quest OS for a projected period of time, provide recommendations on lower cost combination of guest OS licenses, server hardware, and VM software to optimize the cost. Methods also report any underutilized licensed servers and provide recommendations for cost savings when volume licenses can be replaced by instance based software licenses. Methods may generate VM placement recommendations to data center customers while the customers attempt to manually migrate VMs to different server computers.

    Presenting realized state of multi-site logical network

    公开(公告)号:US11115301B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-07

    申请号:US16906942

    申请日:2020-06-19

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for collecting data regarding realized state associated with a logical network spanning multiple physical sites. At a global manager that manages a logical network, the method receives a request to collect realized state for a set of one or more logical network elements, each of which spans a set of two or more physical sites. Each physical site is managed by a local manager. For each of the logical network elements, the method identifies the set of physical sites spanned by the logical network element. For each of the logical network elements, the method sends requests for realized state of the logical network element to the local manager of each identified physical site spanned by the logical network element. The method generates a report for presentation from the realized states received from the local managers.

    Parsing logical network definition for different sites

    公开(公告)号:US11088916B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-10

    申请号:US16906944

    申请日:2020-06-19

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for defining a logical network (LN) that spans multiple sites and is managed at each site by a local manager. At a global manager that manages the logical network, the method creates a tree from a definition of the LN that spans the sites. The tree includes nodes representing elements in the LN and connections between the nodes to express relationships between the elements. Each of at least a subset of nodes has a span attribute identifying sites spanned by an LN element corresponding to the node. The method uses the span attributes to create a parsed tree for each site. Based on the parsed tree of each site, the method identifies a portion of the LN definition that is relevant for the site. The method provides, to the local manager of each site, the portion of the LN definition identified for the site.

    Remotely hosted management of network virtualization

    公开(公告)号:US11082303B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-03

    申请号:US16518561

    申请日:2019-07-22

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for remotely hosted management of network virtualization. In one approach, an administrative user at a client device is authenticated by a computing device for access to manage a network located remotely from the computing device. One or more commands are received from the client device to configure a software-defined networking rule for the network. The computing device communicates with one or more services on the network to implement the software-defined networking rule. A status of implementing the software-defined networking rule is reported to the client device.

    POLICY CONSTRAINT FRAMEWORK FOR AN SDDC

    公开(公告)号:US20210165695A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-03

    申请号:US17176191

    申请日:2021-02-16

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for processing requests for performing operations on resources in a software defined datacenter (SDDC). The resources are software-defined (SD) resources in some embodiments. The method initially receives a request to perform an operation with respect to a first resource in the SDDC. The method identifies a policy that matches (i.e., is applicable to) the received request for the first resource by comparing a set of attributes of the request with sets of attributes of a set of policies that place constraints on operations specified for resources. In some embodiments, several sets of attributes for several policies can be expressed for resources at different hierarchal resource levels of the SDDC. The method rejects the received request when the identified policy specifies that the requested operation violates a constraint on operations specified for the first resource.

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