Vmware, Inc.

Wmware, Inc.

Platform9, Inc.

Bich Cau Le

Dilip Khandekar

Christian Czezatke

Robert Frederick Deuel

Sirishkumar Raghuram

Sirish Raghuram

Yufeng Zheng

Shaw Chuang

Pratap Subrahmanyam

Satyam B Vaghani

Mallik Mahalingam

Kiran R Joshi

Dragutin Petkovic

Jagannath Gopal Krishnan

Gopala Suryanarayana

Greg Hutchins

Xiaoxin Chen

Matthew Eccleston

Derek Uluski

Mike Morris

Krishna Yadappanavar

Edouard Bugnion

Ji Feng

Beng-Hong Lim

Gregory Hutchins

Roopak Parikh

Yufeng Zhang

Matthew Ecoleston

Paavan Kashinath Shanbhag

Sachin Manpathak

The system provisions and upgrades a private cloud stack from a public cloud application. The system registers and activates installed private cloud stacks to discover names, and software packages. The system enables each private cloud stack's roles for data plane elements and activates a private cloud stack. The system receives connection request from the installed host agent to customer resource manager. The system receives host related information from host agent. The software system stores and pushes the desired state for particular host agent to the host agent. The system installs components on enterprise machine associated with role via host agent. The system configures said installed components using templates and dynamic template parameters. The system receives continuous configuration updates for the installed components and continuous heart beat messages for account manager. The system displays visual alerts via UI for any heartbeat, component install or configuration failures.

Private cloud as a service

A provisioning server automatically configures a virtual machine (VM) according to user specifications and then deploys the VM on a physical host. The user may either choose from a list of pre-configured, ready-to-deploy VMs, or he may select which hardware, operating system and application(s) he would like the VM to have. The provisioning server then configures the VM accordingly, if the desired configuration is available, or it applies heuristics to configure a VM that best matches the user's request if it isn't. The invention also includes mechanisms for monitoring the status of VMs and hosts, for migrating VMs between hosts, and for creating a network of VMs.

Provisioning of computer systems using virtual machines

A method for converting a disk of a physical computer into a virtual disk for use by a virtual machine is described. Contents of the disk of the physical computer are copied into an image file, wherein the image file has a different sector-by-sector organization of the contents than the disk but a logically equivalent file system organization. Hardware configuration information from the image file is then extracted, wherein the hardware configuration information relates to hardware of the physical computer and, based on a comparison of the extracted hardware configuration information and a virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machine, hardware-dependent files in the image file are replaced with substitute files that are compatible with the virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machine.

System and method for converting a physical disk to a virtual disk

One embodiment entails delivering a software payload to guest software in a virtual machine so that the software payload is part of a file system accessible by the guest software, wherein the delivery is such that the software payload is part of a file system accessible by the guest software. The delivering utilizes a virtual device of the virtual machine, but does not involve either a virtual network interface card (NIC) or any virtual host bus adapter (VHBA) of the virtual machine. The delivering further includes establishing a data path from the software payload to the virtual machine and a guest agent of the virtual machine. During processing of the software payload, status from the guest agent is monitored. After reception of the status indicating completion of the processing of the software payload, the data path is deactivated.

Software delivery for virtual machines

A method for converting a disk of a physical computer into a virtual disk for use by a virtual machine is described. Contents of the disk of the physical computer are copied into an image file, wherein the image file has a different sector-by-sector organization of the contents than the disk but a logically equivalent file system organization. Hardware configuration information from the image file is then extracted, wherein the hardware configuration information relates to hardware of the physical computer and, based on a comparison of the extracted hardware configuration information and a virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machine, hardware dependent files in the image file are replaced with substitute files that are compatible with the virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machine.

A method and system for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine. A virtual machine is cloned. The cloned virtual machine has an associated persistent storage device. The state of the persistent storage device is transformed into a quiesced state of the cloned virtual machine by utilizing a shut-down process. The shut-down process is executed on the cloned virtual machine to quiesce the cloned virtual machine and the quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine is automatically reduced to information stored on the persistent storage device.

Method and system for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine

A method enables a central management service to operate on individual files within virtual disks associated with different virtual machines (VMs) running in one or more host computers that are each networked to a remote storage system. An IO request from a VM is received at a virtualization software layer on a host computer, wherein the IO request relates to a file stored in a virtual disk associated with the VM, and the file is individually stored in the remote storage system in accordance with a file system. The central management service is notified of the received IO request and uses the file system to access the file in the remote storage system to perform a management task on the file, and the IO request is then performed on the file by the virtualization software layer upon a notification of a successful completion of the management task.

Centralized management of virtual machines

In a method of updating software on a dormant disk, exposed files are accessed. The exposed files are exposed by mounting the dormant disk. The exposed files are scanned to determine the status of software residing on the dormant disk. The scanning is achieved without requiring booting of the dormant disk. It is determined whether an update is available for the software residing on the dormant disk.

Updating software on dormant disks

A method for detecting malicious code within a first virtual machine comprising creating a snapshot of the first virtual machine and transferring the snapshot to a second machine. A scan operation is run on the snapshot using resources of the second machine. In response to detecting malicious code during the scan operation, action is taken at the first virtual machine to address the detection of the malicious code. Thus, the action in response to detecting the malicious code may include placing the first virtual machine in quarantine.

Offloading operations to a replicate virtual machine

A method and a system of making a virtual machine space efficient are disclosed. The virtual machine includes a virtual disk. The method includes creating a temporary virtual disk and adding the temporary virtual disk to the virtual machine. The temporary virtual disk works in conjunction with the virtual disk. The virtual machine is configured to store temporary files in the temporary virtual disk rather than the virtual disk.

Space efficient virtual machines

One embodiment entails delivering a software payload to guest software in a virtual machine so that the software payload is part of a file system accessible by the guest software, wherein delivery avoids a data path involving a network stack of the virtual machine.

System and method for delivering software update to guest software on virtual machines through a backdoor software communication pipe thereof

Virtual machines are managed in centralized manner. Files that are shared by multiple virtual machines are stored in a central storage unit and a management program is executed on one or more of these files on a per file basis. The management program is executed on a file if an IO operation is issued for that file. A namespace map is used to provide a mapping of filenames used by the different virtual machines to filenames used by the central storage unit.

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Bich Cau Le