Vmware, Inc.

Boris Dimitrov Stoicov

Christian Dickmann

Zdravko Ivanov

Kiril Aleksandrov

Disclosed examples include determining that a user-approved migration plan satisfies a proposed migration plan, the proposed migration plan to configure a virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of a virtual standard switch corresponding to first physical network interface cards, the user-approved migration plan based on a user-selection responsive to the proposed migration plan; creating the virtual distributed switch in a first host and a second host in response to the user-approved migration plan satisfying the proposed migration plan; and configuring the virtual distributed switch based on the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch.

Methods and apparatus to migrate physical server hosts between virtual standard switches and virtual distributed switches in a network

An example apparatus to migrate a physical server host from a virtual standard switch to a virtual distributed switch includes: a user input interface to receive a user-selection of first physical network interface cards of a first physical server host to migrate from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch; a configurator to generate a first migration plan to configure the virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch corresponding to the first physical network interface cards; and a virtual distributed switch creator to, based on a user-selection to proceed with the migration from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch, create the virtual distributed switch in the first physical server host and a second physical server host, the configurator to configure the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch in the virtual distributed switch.

Example methods are provided for configuring a cluster of hosts in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise obtaining a configuration specification that specifies multiple features associated with the cluster of hosts and identifying one or more dependencies associated with multiple configuration tasks that are executable for configuring the set of features. The method may also comprise, based on the one or more dependencies, determining a configuration workflow that defines an order in which at least some of the multiple configuration tasks are executed. The method may further comprise orchestrating execution of the at least some of the multiple configuration tasks according to the configuration workflow.

Configuration of a cluster of hosts in virtualized computing environments

A method for a XML editor includes loading one or more files, extracting elements that extend a browser user interface from the one or more files, and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for editing the plug-in XML manifest file. The method further includes receiving one or more user edits to the plug-in XML manifest file through the GUI, validating the one or more user edits against properties of the elements, and generating a warning in the GUI for a user edit that conflicts with a property of an element. The method also includes generating or updating XML code in the plug-in XML manifest file in response to the one or more user edits, and saving the XML code.

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