公开(公告)号：US20210132982A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-06

申请号：US17089021

申请日：2020-11-04

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Sachin THAKKAR ,  Prashant WAYKAR ,  Akshatha SATHYANARAYAN ,  Narendra Kumar BASUR SHANKARAPPA ,  Shruti PARIHAR

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: A method of executing workflows in virtual machines that have been deployed to implement virtual network functions of a network service, wherein the virtual machines are running in a plurality of data centers each having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a plurality of tenants, includes upon receiving a request to execute a workflow along with a plurality of parameters including first and second parameters at a data center, identifying a virtual machine deployed in the data center, in which the workflow is to be executed based on the first parameter, designating one of a plurality of methods by which the workflow is to be executed in the virtual machine according to the second parameter, and issuing a command to the virtual machine to execute the workflow according to the designated method.