公开(公告)号：US20240250821A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18298657

申请日：2023-04-11

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Yang YANG ,  Wenguang WANG ,  Jin FENG ,  Wei ZHENG

IPC: H04L9/32 ,  G06F9/455

CPC classification number: H04L9/3213 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/45583 ,  G06F2009/45595

Abstract: Solutions for secure metering of hyperconverged infrastructures are disclosed. Examples include: receiving a security token; accessing a secondary storage (e.g., cold storage, backups) using the security token; determining usage data for the secondary storage; generating a first message digest for a combination of the usage data and the security token; and transmitting, to a metering server, the usage data and the first message digest. In some examples, the combination of the usage data and the security token comprises a concatenation of the usage data and the security token. In some examples, the metering server requests verification usage data from the secondary storage, generates a second message digest for a combination of the verification usage data and the security token, and compares the first message digest with the second message digest. Examples do not persist the security token on customer premises. Examples leverage the usage data to optimize the secondary storage.

公开(公告)号：US20220382573A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：US17329622

申请日：2021-05-25

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Sifan LIU ,  Yang YANG ,  Yu WU ,  Jin FENG ,  Chen JING

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F8/65 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: The disclosure provides automated update notifications. Embodiments include receiving, by a cloud provider, a request to manage updates for a computing device communicating with the cloud provider via a network. Embodiments include registering an agent at the computing device with the cloud provider as a recipient for an automated update notification based on configuration details of the computing device and detection of an update item related to an aspect of the configuration details. Embodiments include identifying, by the agent, the configuration details of the computing device, the configuration details comprising details of a hardware configuration of the computing device and a software configuration of the computing device. Embodiments include monitoring one or more databases for the update item. Embodiments include transmitting the automated update notification to the agent based on detection of the update item in the one or more databases.

公开(公告)号：US20210357126A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US17284482

申请日：2018-11-16

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Zhaohui GUO ,  Yang YANG ,  Haitao ZHOU ,  Zhou HUANG ,  Jin FENG

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: A method is provided for a hyper-converged storage-compute system to implement an active-active failover architecture for providing Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) target service. The method intelligently selects multiple hosts to become storage nodes that process iSCSI input/output (I/O) for a target. The method further enables iSCSI persistent reservation (PR) to handle iSCSI I/Os from multiple initiators.

公开(公告)号：US20190304148A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

申请号：US16442573

申请日：2019-06-17

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Shugang GUO ,  Zhongping LU ,  Jin FENG ,  Yixiang ZHANG

IPC: G06T11/20 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G06F7/08

Abstract: A method for a processor to provide a chart of a performance metric in a collection interval includes creating regions by dividing the collection interval into regions of increasingly smaller time intervals and determining a mean and a variance for each region based on data points in that region, sorting the regions by their variances and means, and processing the sorted regions. Processing the sorted regions includes removing any child region when its parent region has a variance that substantially represents the child region, and replacing any two neighboring or intersecting regions with a merged region comprising the two neighboring or intersecting regions when the merged region has a variance that substantially represents the two neighboring or intersecting regions. The method further includes generating the chart by visually indicating highest ranking regions by variance in the chart and displaying the chart or transmitting the chart over a computer network.

公开(公告)号：US20230393775A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US17873700

申请日：2022-07-26

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Yu WU ,  Pete KOEHLER ,  Pushkaraj MIRAJKAR ,  Junchi ZHANG ,  Jin FENG

IPC: G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F3/0653 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0617

Abstract: The health of a distributed storage system provided by a virtualized computing environment may be evaluated. The evaluation techniques categorize health issues based on at least three categories (e.g., storage data availability and accessibility, storage data performance, and storage space utilization and efficiency), and provide priority levels for the health issues within each category. In this manner, a more user-oriented approach is provided wherein in addition to identifying health issues, the priority/urgency level of the health issue(s) can be provided so as to guide the user (such as a system administrator) in determining an appropriate remedial action to perform and when such remedial action should be performed to address health issues.

公开(公告)号：US20230342174A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-26

申请号：US17727829

申请日：2022-04-25

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Yang YANG ,  Yang YANG ,  Sixuan YANG ,  Jin FENG

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/445

CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 ,  G06F9/44505 ,  G06F2009/45583 ,  G06F2009/4557

Abstract: Intelligent capacity planning is provided for storage in a hyperconverged infrastructure environment. The storage may be a logical storage unit that is supported by storage space of a plurality of hardware disks in a virtualized computing environment. Failure predictions can be obtained for each individual hardware disk, and a failure prediction for a number of hardware disk in a hardware disk set can also be obtained. A failure prediction and/or a reduced availability prediction for the logical storage unit can be generated based at least on a configuration state of the logical storage unit, a prediction for one or more hardware disks of the logical storage unit, and a prediction time. Predictions based on what-if operations are also able to be generated.

公开(公告)号：US20230168962A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17539219

申请日：2021-12-01

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Yu WU ,  Sifan LIU ,  Jin FENG ,  Chen JING

IPC: G06F11/07 ,  G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F11/0793 ,  G06F11/0772 ,  G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/0709 ,  G06F3/0619 ,  G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/067

Abstract: A troubleshooting technique provides faster and more efficient troubleshooting of issues in a distributed system, such as a distributed storage system provided by a virtualized computing environment. The distributed system includes a plurality of hosts arranged in a cluster. The troubleshooting technique uses cluster-wide correlation analysis to identify potential causes of a particular issue in the distributed system, and executes workflows to remedy the particular issue.

公开(公告)号：US20230039875A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-09

申请号：US17468701

申请日：2021-09-08

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Jiushi WAN ,  Jin FENG ,  Zhou HUANG ,  Jian ZHAO ,  Yang YANG

IPC: G06F9/54 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: An adaptive idle detection method determines whether software defined data centers (SDDCs) in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment are idle. Idleness may be quantified via a coefficient of variation (CV) against resource usage, so as to adapt the idle detection method to SDDCs with different hardware specifications and workloads. Management overhead may also be filtered out by the idle detection method, and the idle detection method may use idleness scores to further reduce overhead.

公开(公告)号：US20220308908A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17214976

申请日：2021-03-29

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Wei ZHENG ,  Jin FENG ,  Chengmao LU ,  Wenguang WANG ,  Yang YANG ,  Yang YANG

IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract: Example methods relating to maintain a quality of service of a cloud application are described. One example method includes monitoring a workload metric of a virtual machines which is running the cloud application, creating additional one or more virtual machines, isolating the additional one or more virtual machines, and determining whether the workload metric exceeds a threshold. In response to determining that the workload metric exceeds the threshold, the method includes deisolating the additional one or more virtual machines to support the cloud application. Otherwise, the method includes maintaining one or more virtual machines being isolated.

公开(公告)号：US20240214290A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18165499

申请日：2023-02-07

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Sifan LIU ,  Yu WU ,  Jin FENG ,  Jianan FENG ,  Kai-Chia CHEN

IPC: H04L43/0852 ,  H04L43/10

CPC classification number: H04L43/0852 ,  H04L43/10

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for measuring network latency between hosts in a cluster. The method generally includes receiving, by a first host, a first ping list indicating the first host is to engage in a first ping round with a second host; executing the first ping round with the second host, wherein executing the first ping round comprises: transmitting first ping requests to the second host; calculating a network latency for each of the first ping requests; and determining a first average network latency between the first host and the second host based on each of the network latencies calculated; determining the first average network latency is above a threshold; determining a cause of the first average network latency being above the threshold; and selectively triggering or not triggering an alarm based on whether the cause is determined to be a hardware or software layer impact, or neither.