Distributed autonomous lifecycle management of hypervisors in a virtualized computing system

    公开(公告)号:US12106135B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US17367118

    申请日:2021-07-02

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F9/45558

    Abstract: An example method of hypervisor lifecycle management in a virtualized computing system having a cluster of hosts is described. The method includes: obtaining, by remediation software executing in a host of the hosts, a host state document from a distributed key-value store, the host state document defining a desired state of software in the host, the software including a hypervisor; and performing, by the remediation software in coordination with other hosts of the hosts through the distributed key-value store, a lifecycle operation on the software of the host in response to determining that a current state of the software does not match the desired state.

    VALIDATION AND PRE-CHECK OF COMBINED SOFTWARE/FIRMWARE UPDATES

    公开(公告)号:US20210311766A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-07

    申请号:US16937988

    申请日:2020-07-24

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: validating a desired image of the virtualization software by extracting dependencies and conflicts defined in metadata of all payloads of the desired image of the virtualization software, and confirming there are no violations of the extracted dependencies and conflicts; performing a pre-check of the desired image of the virtualization software against a current image of the virtualization software and a pre-check of the desired version of the firmware against a current version of the firmware; and upon determining from results of the pre-check that the virtualization software can be upgraded to the desired image and the firmware can be upgraded to the desired version, upgrading the current image of the virtualization software to the desired image and upgrading the current version of the firmware to the desired version.

    Peer-to-peer network booting
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09665380B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-30

    申请号:US13777873

    申请日:2013-02-26

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F9/4416

    Abstract: A technique for booting a computing device using a boot image that is downloaded from a distributed network booting system involves identifying a tracker computing device that manages a plurality of computing devices that store all or a portion of the boot image, receiving from the tracker computing device information about one or more computing devices from which to download the boot image, and downloading the boot image from the one or more computing devices.

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