Vmware, Inc.

Akshatha Sathyanarayan

Sachin Thakkar

Shruti Parihar

Serge Maskalik

Debashis Basak

Allwyn M Sequeira

Mark Bryan Whipple

Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa

Venu Gopala Rao Kotha

Prashant Waykar

Mahesh Jethanandani

Examples for managing virtual infrastructure resources in cloud environments can include (1) instantiating an orchestration node for managing local control planes at multiple clouds, (2) instantiating first and second local control planes at different respective clouds, the first and second local control planes interfacing with different respective virtualized infrastructure managers ('VIMs'), where the first and second local control planes establish secure communication with the orchestration node, and (3) deploying, by the orchestration node, services to the first and second local control planes. Further, the first and second local control planes can cause the respective VIMs to manage the services at the different respective clouds.

Managing virtual infrastructure resources in cloud environments

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.

Multisite service personalization hybrid workflow engine

A method of deploying a network service (NS) across multiple data centers includes identifying virtual network functions (VNFs) associated with the NS in response to a request for or relating to the NS, generating commands to deploy VNFs based on VNF descriptors, and issuing the commands to the data centers to deploy VNFs. The data centers each have a cloud management server in which cloud computing management software is run to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a plurality of tenants. The cloud computing management software of a first data center is different from the cloud computing management software of a second data center, and the commands issued to the first and second data centers are each a generic command that is not in a command format of the cloud computing management software of either the first data center or the second data center.

Multi-site virtual infrastructure orchestration of network service in hybrid cloud environments

A method of deploying a virtual network function of a network service in a data center having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources of the data center to at least one tenant, includes generating at least first and second API calls to the cloud computing management software in response to external commands received at the data center to deploy a virtual network function, and executing at least the first and second API calls by the cloud computing management software to deploy the virtual network function. The cloud computing management software creates at least one virtual machine by executing the first API call and at least one virtual disk by executing the second API call.

An orchestrator process can efficiently distribute images of virtual network functions ('VNFs') in a telco network. The images can be accompanied by metadata that describes VNF requirements, such as computing requirements and functional characteristics. Based on the image metadata and location of a virtual infrastructure manager ('VIM'), the orchestrator can select a storage location and deploy the image to the storage location. The VIM can instantiate a corresponding VNF by retrieving the image. The orchestrator can track the storage location and cause the VIM to delete the image if the image is not used for a threshold period of time.

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Akshatha Sathyanarayan