RECOVERY OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER

    公开(公告)号:US20210004293A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US16458473

    申请日:2019-07-01

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods for backing up and recovering a software-defined data center (“SDDC”). In one example, entities of the SDDC, such as virtual machines, hosts, and clusters, can coexist with corresponding entity stores. The entity stores can store current state information for each SDDC entity. For example, an identifier or name of a virtual machine can be stored in that virtual machine's corresponding entity store. When recovery of a controller is needed, the controller can rebuild state information that has changed after the controller was backed up, by retrieving state information from entity stores of the various SDDC entities.

    Reconciling host cluster membership during recovery

    公开(公告)号:US11722560B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US17452347

    申请日:2021-10-26

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04L67/1031 H04L41/0853 H04L41/0866 H04L67/025

    Abstract: A method for reconciling host membership information in a data center. The method generally includes querying, by a remote management device configured to manage one or more host clusters in the data center, one or more cluster stores to retrieve first host membership information for each of the one or more host clusters, each cluster store being associated with a host cluster of the one or more host clusters, comparing second host membership information stored at the remote management device for the one or more host clusters to the first host membership information to identify one or more discrepancies between the second host membership information and the first host membership information, and updating the second host membership information such that the second host membership information is consistent with the first host membership information.

    Maintaining a fault-tolerance threshold of a clusterstore during maintenance activities

    公开(公告)号:US11720267B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US17504829

    申请日:2021-10-19

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A method for maintaining fault tolerance in a storage cluster is provided. Embodiments include receiving, by a management component associated with a distributed data store on a cluster of host machines, a request to place a first host machine of the cluster of host machines in a maintenance mode, wherein the first host machine stores given data of the distributed data store. Embodiments include determining whether a second host machine that does not currently store any data of the distributed data store exists in the cluster of host machines. Embodiments include determining, based on whether the second host machine exists in the cluster of host machines, whether to transfer the given data of the distributed data store from the first host machine to the second host machine. Embodiments include initiating the maintenance mode on the first host machine.

    Recovery of a software-defined data center

    公开(公告)号:US11354197B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16458478

    申请日:2019-07-01

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods for backing up and recovering a software-defined data center (“SDDC”). In one example, entities of the SDDC, such as virtual machines, hosts, and clusters, can coexist with corresponding entity stores. The entity stores can store current state information for each SDDC entity. For example, an identifier or name of a virtual machine can be stored in that virtual machine's corresponding entity store. When recovery of a controller is needed, the controller can rebuild state information that has changed after the controller was backed up, by retrieving state information from entity stores of the various SDDC entities.

    CLUSTER AFFINITY OF VIRTUAL MACHINES
    10.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240241740A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-18

    申请号:US18096904

    申请日:2023-01-13

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for tracking virtual machines (VMs) associated with a plurality of hosts in an inventory. The method generally includes determining to remove a first host of the plurality of hosts, the first host running a first VM, wherein: the first host and a second host are associated with a first host cluster in the inventory; the first host is the associated-host and the registered-host of the first VM in the inventory; determining the first VM is associated with first host cluster based on the associated-host of the first VM being the first host and the first host being associated with the first host cluster; identifying the second host is associated with the first host cluster in the inventory; altering the associated-host of the first VM to the second host and unsetting the registered-host for the first VM in the inventory; and removing the first host.

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